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New Satellite Terminals Extend Range of Turkish UAVs

New Satellite Terminals Extend Range of Turkish UAVs

ANKARA — Turkish information technologies firm CTech began to deliver SATCOM On-The-Move (SOTM) terminals for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as of July.

The firm delivered 15 terminals in July as part of the project was launched by the country’s Defense Industries’ Presidency in 2014, accordin…

CRS Reports on Status of US Navy’s FFG(X) Frigate Program

CRS Reports on Status of US Navy’s FFG(X) Frigate Program

The FFG(X) program is a Navy program to build a class of 20 guided-missile frigates (FFGs). Congress funded the procurement of the first FFG(X) in FY2020 at a cost of $1,281.2 million (i.e., about $1.3 billion). The Navy’s proposed FY2021 budget requests $1,053.1 million (i.e., about $1.1 billion) f…
Report to Congress on Gerald R. Ford Carrier Program

Report to Congress on Gerald R. Ford Carrier Program

The following is the Oct. 7, 2020 Congressional Research Service report, Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for Congress.
From the report

The aircraft carriers CVN-78, CVN-79, CVN-80, and CVN-81 are the first four ships in the Navy’s new Gerald R. Ford (CVN-…

LCS 26 Completes US Navy Acceptance Trial

LCS 26 Completes US Navy Acceptance Trial

MOBILE, Ala. — The future USS Mobile (LCS 26) successfully concluded its acceptance trial in the Gulf of Mexico Sept. 25 after a series of in-port and underway demonstrations.

The Navy conducted comprehensive tests of the Independence-variant littoral combat ship’s systems during the trial, spa…

US Navy Installs New Radar at Cruiser in Cornfield Test Site

US Navy Installs New Radar at Cruiser in Cornfield Test Site

The U.S. Navy, at land-based test site Combat Systems Engineering Development Site (CSEDS) in Moorestown, N.J., accepted delivery of the Navy’s AN/SPY-6(V)1 Air and Missile Defense Radar System Oct 7.

SPY-6 will be installed on New Construction Flight III Destroyers starting with USS Jack H Lucas…

US, Romania Agree 10-Year Road Map for Military Cooperation

US, Romania Agree 10-Year Road Map for Military Cooperation

Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper welcomed Romanian Defense Minister Nicolae Ciuca to the Pentagon today with an enhanced honor cordon.

The two defense leaders signed a 10-year road map for defense cooperation that captures the nations’ common strategic goals and shared interests, such as defen…

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