Category: Notizie Estero

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-78) class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (CVNs).

The Navy’s proposed FY2021 budget requests $2,714.1 million (i.e., about $2.7 billion) in procurement funding for CVN-78 …

The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and the Canadian NORAD Region (CANR) achieved initial operating capability for their fleet of CC-150 Polaris air-to-air refuelling tankers, operated by 437 Transport Squadron, from Trenton, Ontario, on July 1, 2020.

This milestone, otherwise known as “IOC”, val…

ANDOVER, Mass. — Raytheon Missiles & Defense delivered the first AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar array for installation on the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), the U.S. Navy’s first Flight III guided-missile destroyer. The SPY-6 family of radars performs simultaneous air, missile and surface defense on seve…

South Korea and Japan took part in a multilateral anti-piracy drill in waters off Somalia last week, officials said Tuesday, a rare joint military event amid soured bilateral relations.

The regular exercise, named Operation Atalanta, took place from July 16-17 in the Gulf of Aden, involving South…

CHELTENHAM, UK — GE Aviation signed a collaboration agreement to work on the future combat air concepts and underpinning technologies across Team Tempest. GE Aviation in the UK will work on open architecture and infrastructure for electrical power and avionics systems.

This announcement represe…

SAN DIEGO — General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) announces that the industry team, made up of Australian partner businesses assembled for the development and delivery of MQ-9B SkyGuardian RPAS for Australia, will now be called “Team SkyGuardian Australia” (TSGA). This replaces the p…