Top 3 Points: The U.S. Navy’s two aging Blue Ridge-class amphibious command ships, USS Blue Ridge and USS Mount Whitney, have been critical for fleet coordination since the 1970s. However, these ...
The Blue Ridge-class command-and-control ship Mount Whitney transits the Mediterranean Sea in 2019. (MC3 Drew Verbis/U.S. Navy) When there is talk of flat budgets and ship reductions, the U.S. Navy ...