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Russian Antey-Class SSN Upgrade to Extend Service Life by 10 Years

Russian Antey-Class SSN Upgrade to Extend Service Life by 10 Years

MOSCOW — The service life of the Pacific Fleet’s Project 949A ‘Antey’ multirole nuclear-powered submarine Irkutsk will be extended by at least ten years after its repairs and upgrade at the Zvezda Ship Repair Plant in Russia’s Far East, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at the ministry’s confere…
Rostec Flies Modernized Ka-226T Helicopter for First Time

Rostec Flies Modernized Ka-226T Helicopter for First Time

The most advanced Ka-226T light helicopter developed by Rostec State Corporation’s Russian Helicopters Holding Company commenced flight tests and made its first flight at the flight-testing facility of Mil and Kamov National Helicopter Center. This is the first Russian rotorcraft with fully digital …
Babcock-Led Team Wins £100M Royal Navy EW Contract

Babcock-Led Team Wins £100M Royal Navy EW Contract

Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) have awarded a £100-million contract to a Babcock-led partnership with Elbit Systems UK and QinetiQ to deliver cutting-edge electronic warfare (EW) systems to the Royal Navy.

The EW technology will allow more simultaneous detection and identification of radio …

KBR Wins $63M Option for Diego Garcia Base Operation

KBR Wins $63M Option for Diego Garcia Base Operation

KBR Diego Garcia LLC, Houston, Texas, is awarded a $62,887,787 firm-fixed-price modification to exercise Option Four under previously-awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract N62742-17-D-3600 for base operations support services at U.S. Navy Support Facility, Diego Garcia.

Award …

Contractor Admits Faking Steel-Test Results for US Navy Subs

Contractor Admits Faking Steel-Test Results for US Navy Subs

SEATTLE — A metallurgist in Washington state pleaded guilty to fraud Monday after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel that was being used to make U.S. Navy submarines.

Elaine Marie Thomas, 67, of Auburn, Washington, was the director of metallurgy at a foundry in Tac…

Four of ‘Five-Eye’ Air Forces Train in Virtual Flag Exercise

Four of ‘Five-Eye’ Air Forces Train in Virtual Flag Exercise

Royal Australian Air Force personnel and their allies from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom were challenged on Exercise Coalition Virtual Flag 22-1 (CVF22-1).

Held from October 25 to November 5, CVF22-1 was a US Air Force-led, large-scale, virtual, constructive activity, where par…

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