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Australia Looks at Protecting Armored Vehicles with Water

Australia Looks at Protecting Armored Vehicles with Water

Ever wondered what happens if you blow up a fluid-filled container? Creative thinkers from Defence have shown that water can help protect armoured vehicles from bomb blasts.

When you are tasked with working out how to improve blast protection for armoured vehicles, it helps if you can think outsi…

US Navy Needs to Fix Maintenance Delays for Carriers, Subs: GAO

US Navy Needs to Fix Maintenance Delays for Carriers, Subs: GAO

The Navy’s four shipyards completed 38 of 51 (75 percent) maintenance periods late for aircraft carriers and submarines with planned completion dates in fiscal years 2015 through 2019, for a combined total of 7,424 days of maintenance delay.

For each maintenance period completed late, the shipya…

Common RPAS Training: Remote, Yet Together

Common RPAS Training: Remote, Yet Together

BRUSSELS — When seven EDA Member States established a Working Group in 2013 to improve collaboration and information-sharing in what was then a small and totally fragmented European Medium Altitude, Long Endurance, Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (MALE RPAS) domain, they instantly realised that …
Virtual Training Center Completed at Nellis AFB

Virtual Training Center Completed at Nellis AFB

NELLIS AFB, Nev. — The Air Force relies on forward-thinking Airmen who are constantly thinking of ways to innovate, refine or improve processes and technology in a way that can modernize the service and its tactics.

Nellis Airmen have heard, and answered, that call, and so with the snip of a ri…

Leonardo Buys South African Helicopter Support Company

Leonardo Buys South African Helicopter Support Company

ROME — Leonardo is strengthening the level of support and maintenance services offered to its customer base in South Africa with a new service centre following the recent acquisition of Precision Aviation Services (Pty) Ltd. This is located at Wonderboom Airport – Pretoria and comprises 2275 m2 of…
Marina Militare: Nave Etna partita per portare aiuti umanitari a Beirut

Marina Militare: Nave Etna partita per portare aiuti umanitari a Beirut

Nella serata del 19 agosto, la nave Etna della Marina Militare, come disposto dal ministro della difesa Lorenzo Guerini, è salpata da Brindisi alla volta di Beirut per consegnare aiuti umanitari a favore della popolazione libanese. L’arrivo è previsto il giorno 24.

L’elongazione nel Mediterraneo orientale si svolge nell’ambito di una campagna d’istruzione che la nave sta conducendo a favore di 78 allievi del 1° corso della Scuola Sottufficiali di Taranto.


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