Key Points and Summary – The Arsenal Ship was a 1990s plan for a joint-force “missile barge” packing up to 1,000 vertical-launch weapons to shield carriers, support Marines, and fire deep land-attack ...

The South Korean navy is pursuing what it calls the "Joint Firepower Ship." Borrowing a US concept, the so-called arsenal ship is meant to carry dozens of missiles. If built, it would be a central ...

China is rapidly expanding its maritime strike capabilities by transforming a civilian cargo vessel into a heavily armed ...

Threatened by North Korean nuclear weapons and communist Chinese conventional air and missile fires, South Korea has decided to spend serious money on an old but often spurned military concept: the ...

Naval thinkers are coming to terms with the chilling reality that the U.S. fleet probably never will grow to the size planners believe it needs to achieve in order to... The concepts have been in the ...

When they are built and deployed, South Korea's ships will tell North Korea and China that a surprise attack will not destroy its ability to retaliate. North Korea focuses on South Korean land targets ...