The United States of America has been involved in many different conflicts, foreign and domestic, popular and unpopular, spanning across four centuries and all corners of the globe. From the warm coastal waters of the American homeland to the atolls of the Pacific, from the winding inland rivers of Vietnam to the chokepoint at the Strait of Hormuz, American sailors have valiantly stood up to defend America’s interests at home and abroad. The Navy has had to continuously update its vessels and technologies
Huntington Ingalls Industries (Ingalls) is a Fortune 500 company that specializes in ship building predominately for the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard. It is the largest company that builds military vessels. Although the company’s lineage is full of acquisitions, mergers, and restructure, it has a 76 year history in its Pascagoula, MS shipyard and a 129 year history at its New Port News, VA location. However, Ingalls did not become the leader in shipbuilding overnight. Ingalls
The Gulf War The Gulf War was much more than a fight to liberate Kuwait. It was the first non-conventional war; in which new, fairly new, or even experimental weapons were used. The Gulf War displayed much new technology that you will learn lots about in this paper. This paper may sound very technical, but that is what it is about, the new weapon technology vs. the conventional types of weapons used in previous wars. This paper is about the advancement of weapon technology, and how the military