Category: Notizie Estero

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — HII announced today the successful completion of the initial sea trials Friday of fast-attack submarine Montana (SSN 794). The Virginia-class submarine, built at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division, spent several days at sea to test the ship’s systems and components.

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ROBINS AFB, Ga. — The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Agile Combat Support (ACS) Directorate is on track to deliver by fall of this year, the first of 13 vehicles that utilize directed energy, or lasers to safely detonate and clear unexploded ordnance – such as bombs, grenades, improvis…

A £90 million subcontract has been awarded to Thales UK, based in Scotland, to deliver next generation sights for the British Army’s upgraded Challenger 3 Main Battle Tank (MBT).

The contract was signed by RBSL and Thales, with the Secretary of State for Scotland in attendance, at Thales’s site i…

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa –– Collins Aerospace has developed a new power module to support open architecture applications such as mission computers, signal processors, aircraft communication, and radar systems. The Collins 3Phase 3U power module delivers up to 800 watts of power without requiring addition…

German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said extra forces will be deployed to the Baltic nation amid regional tensions with Russia. The deployment there could be Germany’s second largest after Mali.

Germany will deploy up to 350 additional troops “within a few days” to Lithuania, Defense Mi…

USNS John Lewis (T-AO 205), the Navy’s lead ship of its new class of fleet replenishment oilers, conducted initial Builder’s Trials and returned to port, Feb. 4.

Builder’s Trials consist of a series of in-port and at-sea demonstrations that allow the Navy and the shipbuilder, General Dynamics Nat…