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USAF Delays Decision on KC-46 Tanker Production to 2024

USAF Delays Decision on KC-46 Tanker Production to 2024

The U.S. Air Force has delayed by four years a decision on whether the $44 billion KC-46 tanker program should be approved for full-rate production while contractor Boeing Co. tries to show it has fixed the flawed camera system used for the plane’s midair refueling mission.

An Air Force statement…

Leonardo Wins Maintenance Contract with Danish Navy

Leonardo Wins Maintenance Contract with Danish Navy

ROME — Leonardo has signed a twenty-year framework agreement with the Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO) which provides for logistics support and the possible future upgrade of the seventeen 76/62 Super Rapid Gun Mounts which are in-service on the Danish Navy’s Iver Huitf…
HMS Lancaster on Weapons Trials After Two-Year Refit

HMS Lancaster on Weapons Trials After Two-Year Refit

HMS Lancaster is spending a fortnight flexing her military muscle off the south coast as she prepares for renewed front-line duties.

After a spot of maintenance in her home base of Portsmouth, the frigate put to sea at the weekend to focus on the ‘business end’ of Royal Navy operations: warfare.

Brookings: Why Germany’s Nuclear Mission Matters

Brookings: Why Germany’s Nuclear Mission Matters

Earlier this month, the influential head of the Social Democratic Party’s (SPD) parliamentary group, Rolf Mützenich, called for the withdrawal of US nuclear weapons from Germany and an end to Germany’s participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) nuclear sharing arrangements, tri…
STRIKFORNATO Brings New Capabilities to BALTOPS Exercise

STRIKFORNATO Brings New Capabilities to BALTOPS Exercise

OEIRAS, Portugal — Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO) executes Baltic Operations 2020 (BALTOPS 20) from its newly functional Joint Operations Center (JOC).

Fully operational and mission ready, STRIKFORNATO is commanding and controlling assigned forces from their new JOC insid…

US Navy Releases Covid-19 Investigation on USS Roosevelt

US Navy Releases Covid-19 Investigation on USS Roosevelt

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia — The Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center, in cooperation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released findings from a joint public health outbreak investigation into how the COVID-19 disease affected crewmembers aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (T…
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