Category: Notizie Estero

Merlins Return to HMS Queen Elizabeth As Training Ramps Up

Merlins Return to HMS Queen Elizabeth As Training Ramps Up

RNAS Culdrose based 820 Naval Air Squadron, the “Carrier Squadron”, has re-joined HMS Queen Elizabeth to take part in Basic Sea Training and Carrier Sea Training in preparation for the carrier task group’s maiden operational deployment next year.

Aircrew, engineers, survival equipment technicians…

GE Wins $394M for J85 Jet Engine Support

GE Wins $394M for J85 Jet Engine Support

General Electric Aviation, Lynn, Massachusetts, has been awarded a maximum $394,149,546 firm-fixed price, requirements contract for supplies related to the J85 engine.

This was a sole-source acquisition using justification 10 U.S. Code 2304 (c)(1), as stated in Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.3…

LCS 24 Completes US Navy Acceptance Trials

LCS 24 Completes US Navy Acceptance Trials

MOBILE, Ala — The future USS Oakland (LCS 24) successfully concluded acceptance trials May 22 following a series of in-port and underway demonstrations in the Gulf of Mexico.

During trials, the final milestone prior to the ship’s delivery, the Navy conducts comprehensive tests of systems, inclu…

NATO Takes Part in Swedish Naval Exercise

NATO Takes Part in Swedish Naval Exercise

BALTIC SEA, Sweden — Standing NATO Maritime Group One (SNMG1) joined the Swedish naval exercise SWENEX, between 11 – 21 May, 2020 in the waters of Skagerak and the Baltic Sea.

SNMG1 with the flagship HNoMS Otto Sverdrup and FGS Rhon played the role of a simulated adversary to the Swedish naval …

Bombardier Plant in Belfast Heavily Damaged by Fire

Bombardier Plant in Belfast Heavily Damaged by Fire

A “significant” fire that broke out at the Bombardier factory in the docks area of Belfast on Sunday night is being treated as an accident.

The NI Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) said the blaze is believed to have started within a machine at the plant.

The fire, which has now been extinguished…

Ukroboronprom Unit Upgrades Ukrainian Radars

Ukroboronprom Unit Upgrades Ukrainian Radars

SE SPC Iskra, which is the part of SC Ukroboronprom, has provided the capital repair and modernisation of 19Zh6 radar after which it receives the new index 35D6M and actually, became the new modern radar.

The company noticed that the modernization was carried out as a part of the state defence or…

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