Yearly Archive: 2020

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Huntington Ingalls Industries announced today that its Newport News Shipbuilding division has been awarded a contract modification from General Dynamics Electric Boat in support of construction on the first two Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines

The contract modif…

Action to correct hardware problems that contributed to the crash of an F-35 on May 19 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., must remain secret, the F-35 Joint Program Office said Nov. 23.

“Explicit details related to corrective actions have the potential to compromise operational security,” a JPO spoke…

PETER THE GREAT BAY — On Nov. 24 (local time) USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the vicinity of Peter the Great Bay in the Sea of Japan. This freedom of navigation operation (“FONOP”) upheld the rights, freedoms, and lawful uses of the sea recognized in inter…

The Shandong, China’s first domestically developed aircraft carrier, the second in all, recently embarked on its third voyage of the year, after it was declared to have completed regular testing and training missions in late October.

The voyage could feature combat-intensive exercises featuring f…

Australia has a chance to reboot the strained relationship with the French company building its new fleet of submarines after the sudden departure of the top executive in charge of the $80 billion project.

Naval Group staff were emailed overnight on Monday that Jean-Michel Billig, executive direc…

A mock B61-12’s strike in the dusty Nevada desert successfully completed the first in a series of flight tests with the U.S. Air Force’s newest fighter jet, demonstrating the bomb’s first release from an internal bomb bay at greater than the speed of sound.

The flight test of the B61-12 with the …