FN Manufacturing LLC has received an $11.5 million firm-fixed-price contract for the MK-48 Mod-1 lightweight machine gun (LMG) to support the Navy Small Arms program. The contract, let by the Naval ...

There was a time when elements of the U.S. Navy appreciated the complexity, effort, duration, and assets anti-submarine warfare, or ASW, demanded of a fleet. Expecting to fight a blue-water war-at-sea ...

Key Point: The missile is big, it’s bad, and it’s being used all over the world. The U.S. Navy is now prototyping a new, longer range and more lethal submarine-launched heavyweight Mk 48 that can ...

Summary and Key Points You Need to Know: The Mark 48 torpedo, developed by the Naval Sea Systems Command, is one of the most advanced and lethal undersea weapons in the U.S. Navy’s arsenal. Introduced ...

A Pentagon report confirms the effectiveness of modified Mk 48 torpedoes. (US Department of Defense) The US Navy's modified Advanced Processor Build (APB) 5+ Mk 48 torpedo is “operationally effective ...