Monthly Archive: Maggio 2020

Eurofighter Details Options to Improve Defensive Aids Sub-System

Eurofighter Details Options to Improve Defensive Aids Sub-System

Eurofighter Typhoon is equipped with one of the most capable Electronic Warfare (EW) systems installed on any combat aircraft. At its heart is the Typhoon’s Defensive Aids Sub System (DASS), known as Praetorian and provided by the EuroDASS consortium, a four-nation group of EW experts comprising Leo…
LCS 24 Completes US Navy Acceptance Trials

LCS 24 Completes US Navy Acceptance Trials

MOBILE, Ala — The future USS Oakland (LCS 24) successfully concluded acceptance trials May 22 following a series of in-port and underway demonstrations in the Gulf of Mexico.

During trials, the final milestone prior to the ship’s delivery, the Navy conducts comprehensive tests of systems, inclu…

GE Wins $394M for J85 Jet Engine Support

GE Wins $394M for J85 Jet Engine Support

General Electric Aviation, Lynn, Massachusetts, has been awarded a maximum $394,149,546 firm-fixed price, requirements contract for supplies related to the J85 engine.

This was a sole-source acquisition using justification 10 U.S. Code 2304 (c)(1), as stated in Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.3…

Merlins Return to HMS Queen Elizabeth As Training Ramps Up

Merlins Return to HMS Queen Elizabeth As Training Ramps Up

RNAS Culdrose based 820 Naval Air Squadron, the “Carrier Squadron”, has re-joined HMS Queen Elizabeth to take part in Basic Sea Training and Carrier Sea Training in preparation for the carrier task group’s maiden operational deployment next year.

Aircrew, engineers, survival equipment technicians…

China Touts Its Beidou NavSat System

China Touts Its Beidou NavSat System

BEIJING — China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has offered services to more countries and sectors, said a white paper setting out the country’s satellite navigation industry development.

In 2019, BDS products were exported to more than 120 countries and regions, an increase of 20 ov…

NATO Takes Part in Swedish Naval Exercise

NATO Takes Part in Swedish Naval Exercise

BALTIC SEA, Sweden — Standing NATO Maritime Group One (SNMG1) joined the Swedish naval exercise SWENEX, between 11 – 21 May, 2020 in the waters of Skagerak and the Baltic Sea.

SNMG1 with the flagship HNoMS Otto Sverdrup and FGS Rhon played the role of a simulated adversary to the Swedish naval …

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