2025 in review: Navy
Defense One Staff | December 28, 2025
Navy AI & Autonomy Industry
The D Brief: New ‘battleship’ announced
The vessels are to displace some 35,000 tons, three times as much as today’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.
December 23, 2025 11:24 AM ET | Bradley Peniston and Ben Watson
Congress supports bare minimum on Navy’s F/A-XX, while fully backing Air Force’s F-47
Appropriators and other lawmakers have pushed for the Navy’s next-gen fighter, but the latest NDAA offers only enough to keep the nascent program warm.
December 9, 2025 | Thomas Novelly
And just like that, the Navy’s frigate program is back on—sort of
The move comes days after Navy Secretary John Phelan canceled the yearslong delayed program.
December 8, 2025 | Lauren C. Williams
Sinking speedboats with a supercarrier: the lopsided cost of Operation Southern Spear
History suggests what happens when the U.S. military outspends a foe by orders of magnitude.
December 7, 2025 | Peter W. Singer
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