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US Army Awards Contract for Hybrid Electric Prototype

US Army Awards Contract for Hybrid Electric Prototype

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The Army recently issued a contract award to rapidly prototype hybrid electric drives into an Army combat vehicle as a key step in scaling-up this widely available commercial technology.

Hybrid electric drives (HEDs), used today in commercial cars, buses, heavy trucks and ot…

Wildcat Helicopter Keeps Frigate at High Readiness

Wildcat Helicopter Keeps Frigate at High Readiness

Merlin fliers are helping their Wildcat counterparts get their sea legs by helping to train them aboard HMS Westminster.

Fresh from submarine hunting in the Denmark Strait on a NATO exercise, the Portsmouth-based warship is helping train the naval aviators of tomorrow from 825 Naval Air Squadron….

US Navy Tests New Procedures for Amphibious Operations

US Navy Tests New Procedures for Amphibious Operations

LITTLE CREEK, Va. —- Naval Facilities (NAVFAC) Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (EXWC), U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), and the U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) successfully completed a proof-of-concept vertical take-off …
Raytheon Delivers First SPY-6 Radar to US Navy

Raytheon Delivers First SPY-6 Radar to US Navy

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…
Canada Says CC-150 Polaris Ranker Fleet Reaches IOC

Canada Says CC-150 Polaris Ranker Fleet Reaches IOC

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…

CRS Has Many Questions About USS Ford Carrier Program

CRS Has Many Questions About USS Ford Carrier Program

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 …


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