Is there a way to track where Navy ships are located.?

Question

My husband is currently on the USS Mccampbell ddg-85. He told me there was but I have been unable to locate the proper site. I just want to know where he is, makes for better emails and easier to know when to send packages when we cannot be in contact every day. Thanks

Answer 1

Ships' movement are classified. They are only allowed to announce an upcoming port arrival within 48 hours of that arrival.

Answer 2

Navy Ship Locator

Answer 3

I'm sure there is, if you're in the Navy. You as a civilian layperson, nope. Sorry, he's in an ocean, and that's the best you're gonna get. The military has ways of tracking everything, from a HMMWV travelling the streets of Baghdad, to an Aircraft carrier crossing the Pacific. But how it is done is classified, so you won't know for a half century or so, when they've long moved on to a new technology many generations past what we currently have today.

Answer 4

actual location, nope. Only Home port. Every Week the Navy Times publishes a map of a general AO with a general description of what they are doing, but typically only lists carriers, battle groups, LCS and Subs, not Small Boys, unless they are operating alone.

unless DDG 85 is operating alone far from convoy traffic lanes, he gets mail pretty regularly, either from the Duck or the COD, depending on where he is.. weekly, if not more often.

Caution: NEITHER of you should be discussing location in emails, nor should you be discussing dates. On one of my husband's ships, a spouse and her husband were banned from using email because they violated OPSEC in a big way and refused to stop doing so after being warned. The entire ship lost email privileges for a week because of this.

Answer 5

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Mk 15 Phalanx was designed so that it could be used as a stand-alone system. It can for example be bolted to the deck of any ship, even those that lack any kind of combat systems. Just plug it in and it is ready to go. So the applications include not just combat vessels but auxiliaries such as tankers, amphibious ships, transports and cargo vessels. There is no other equivelent gun system in the west. The American/Dutch/French Goalkeeper like Phalanx has its own onboard sensor package for autonomous operation but it requires deck penetration and thus can not be easily applied to ships that were not designed for it. Goalkeeper has a more powerful weapon with greater range and lethality and can track more targets than Phalanx though. The Chinese have a system, the Type 730 which is practically a carbon-copy of Goalkeeper. The Italian Dardo and Swiss Seaguard not only require deck penetration for the weapon mounts but also depend heavily on the ships own combat command system for target data and fire control. The ships Target Indication Radar for example is the systems primary search element but it can also take data from the ships ESM system or an IRST while target tracking and fire control is by an off-mount electro-optical director. These systems are more massive than a stand-alone solution and naturally require much greater ship integration but have the advantage of much more powerful sensors locating higher up on the ship and the ability to handle many more targets at much greater ranges. As an anti-missile system Phalanx was intended to be temporary - a sotp-gap solution until RAM was fielded, but RAM was more than a decade late so Phalanx became a fixture on many ship classes and for far longer than ever intended. In the 1980's the British Royal Navy conducted a study on the effectiveness of various anti-ship missile defenses and determined that against an Exocet-type target (relatively slow and unsophisticated) Phalanx would likely not achieve a kill until the target approached within 300 meters of the ship. For Goalkeeper the kill range was 800 meters. This is important because at ranges of less than 1 km even if the target is destroyed, fragments from it will still be travelling fast enough to pepper the ship (like a huge shotgun) and could potentially put the ship out of action like in the USS Worden incident off Vietnam. The RN stopped buying Phalanx and Goalkeeper after that. But to be fair, neither of these systems were intended to be a ships primary defense against missiles but rather its last-ditch defense, when everything else had failed. Today Phalanx in the USN is no longer employed primarily to engage missile targets but is retained for use against small surface craft. To this end surviving installations are fitted with Infra-red camera's for identification and accurate tracking of small fast targets on the surface.

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Is there a way to track where Navy ships are located.?
My husband is currently on the USS Mccampbell ddg-85. He told me there was but I have been unable to locate the proper site. I just want to know where he is, makes for better emails and easier to know when to send packages when we cannot be in contact every day. Thanks

Answer 7

The homeport of US Navy ships can be found at www.nvr.navy. mil

The location of Navy ships at sea is classified. Mail goes through the same FPO address no matter where the ship is.

Answer 8

The Navy knows exactly where he is but to prevent a possible attack at some point in the future. Their location is not usually made public while they are deployed and at sea. The Navy knows where to send the packages.

Answer 9

He can't tell you where he is. That is a security breech." lose lips sink ships" The e-mail is not effected. It will just be hard to establish a time to IM. As for the mail, The fpo-ap address id's the ship he is on and the military postal service will send it to the nearest port and they will fly the mail to them. It just takes a while.

Answer 10

Hi there I have contacted you off site with a bit more in depth info, regarding this matter and the need for keping our men safe from harm......and Oh DUH, just seen this is USA based so the first bit of the email is what you need to read the most.

regards

EDIT to MrsJVB, totally agree with you, I was just saying that putting out info like that would get her in trouble, but said it in a nice way, I just thought that a lot more people would jump all over her and be nasty........can assure you NO wrong info was given out, I want my hubby and son home safe and sound regards