Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…t’s been five years since seven sailors were killed when the US Navy destroyer FITZGERALD collided with a Japanese cargo ship, an incident closely followed by another collision between the US destroyer JOHN S McCAIN and a merchant ship that killed 10 sailors. Major recriminations followed. But has it made any difference? We’ll talk it over with veteran journalist Sam LaGrone of USNI News.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…US Navy saturation diving is back, more than 25 years after the capability for extended deep-diving was eliminated. The commanding officer and one of the top divers of the Navy Experimental Diving Unit will be here to talk about what they do and how they just carried out a deep-dive real-world job at a depth of 475 feet.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…it takes a lot of people to build a ship, and even more to build a giant warship, where thousands of shipbuilders each play a role. Author Mike Fabey spent quality time with some of the people building the world’s largest warship, the aircraft carrier JOHN F. KENNEDY CVN79, and talks about what it takes to do the job.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week...it’s been a busy month of May in the naval world – from the lightning round of budget hearings on Capitol Hill to open controversy among senior active and retired Marines. And now of course, the need for speed is powering a dynamic Memorial Day weekend at the movies. We’ll move through all that and more.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week…a group of 30 Marine Corps generals, including every living former commandant, is openly challenging the plan of the current commandant to transform the Corps into a lighter, faster and more responsive combat force. One prominent former Marine, who served the Corps as an artillery commander, has risen to defend General David Berger. In a few minutes we’ll hear from former Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work some of his thoughts on not only the efficacy of the plan, dubbed Force Design 2030, but also on the propriety of such an open debate.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week…there are increasing calls for a new approach to naval aviation to enable carrier-based aircraft to strike at greater range with greater lethality. To address these and other issues, analysts Bryan Clark and Timothy Walton in a new report from the Hudson Institute propose new thinking on how to achieve those goals. Bryan Clark will be here to explain their ideas.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week…we have a very special guest this week – former Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus. The longest-serving SECNAV ever will weigh in on several topics.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week…Congress has begun its annual series of Navy budget hearings, the Navy continues to grapple with suicides among the crew of the carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON, and CNO Gilday made some interesting comments at an appearance this week. We’ll take a closer look.

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Servello has questions about the US Navy’s basic focus in developing unmanned systems.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week…the US Navy’s latest 30-year shipbuilding plan and newly-released Fiscal 2023 budget documents led to a flurry of comments and media stories this week – hardly any of a complimentary nature. We’ll dive into some of the details and try to discern the overall impact with defense analyst Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners.

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Cavas comments on the Navy's 30-year Shipbuilding Plan.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week…the sinking of Russia’s biggest warship in the Black Sea is one of the most significant naval events of the past forty years. With naval historian Dr Phil Weir, we’ll dive into some of the naval lessons-learned so far in this brutal war and hark back to the Falklands War of 1982, where new and old weapons took a terrible toll on ships and lives.

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Servello talks about lessons learned from the Moskva's sinking.

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