“What happens to a highly advanced warship design when its signature weapon collapses under its own complexity?” For the U.S.

Philadelphia-based architect Ewing Cole Cherry Brott was faced with a challenge during a $21 million adaptive reuse of Building 33 within the Sanger Quadrangle in the Washington Navy Yard, Washington, ...

The U.S. Navy has approved Minneapolis-based United Defense Industries Inc.'s 57mm Mk 110 Naval Gun as the Close-In Gun System (CIGS) for the baseline design of the new DD(X) destroyer program, the ...

The Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to develop guided 57-millimeter cannon shells. The shells would equip guns on the Independence-class littoral combat ships and the new ...

For much of modern naval history, the role of a destroyer has been to protect larger warships from attack by enemy submarines, surface combatants, and aircraft. This objective was accomplished with a ...

The Mk 110 gun system, known internationally as the Bofors 57 Mk 3, is the deck gun of choice for the Constellation class. It is a multi-mission, medium-caliber shipboard weapon, effective against air ...