Category: Notizie Estero

US Navy Accepts Delivery of Future USS Oakland (LCS 24)

US Navy Accepts Delivery of Future USS Oakland (LCS 24)

MOBILE, Ala. — The Navy accepted delivery of the future USS Oakland (LCS 24) June 26 during a ceremony at Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama.

Oakland is the 22nd littoral combat ship (LCS) and the 12th of the Independence variant to join the fleet. Its delivery marks the official transfer of the shi…

HMS Kent Helps Protect Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth

HMS Kent Helps Protect Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth

The seas around Britain’s biggest warship churned red as the Navy developed tactics to protect HMS Queen Elizabeth from all manner of attacks.

For five days, the Portsmouth-based carrier worked side-by-side with frigate HMS Kent and her Merlin helicopter as every perceivable threat – air attack, …

SNC Delivers First Comms Relay MC-130J to AFSOC

SNC Delivers First Comms Relay MC-130J to AFSOC

SPARKS, Nev. — Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has delivered to Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) the first MC-130J equipped with the advanced Airborne Mission Networking (AbMN) secure communications suite. The AbMN suite improves interoperability between special operations platforms as…
U.S. Army’s 1st Special Forces Group training in Taiwan

U.S. Army’s 1st Special Forces Group training in Taiwan

Taiwan has admitted that U.S. troops has been training on the island after a video made by the U.S. Army’s 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) last year showed the soldiers boarding a Black Hawk helicopter with Republic of China markings. The code name of the exercise is Balance Tamper and it involved Taiwan special forces […]

Russia test teaming of Su-57 with group of Su-35s

TASS reports that Russia has carried out an experiment to team a Su-57 with a group of Su-35 fighters. The report quoted two anonymous sources but the date and place of the exercise was not disclose. However, it was noted that during the test, the “flock” of airplanes were able to exchange data with each […]

Ghana Air Force Z-9EH crash lands

A Ghana Air Force Z-9EH helicopter, # GHF 630, has crash landed in Kumbungu District on Jun. 25 at 1725 hours local time. LudwigJoelAdjete / CC BY-SA The crew noticed an issue with the tail rotor and made the emergency landing. There were eight people on board the helicopter, four are crew members. All on […]
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