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Lockheed Wins $20M to Prepare Australia’s F-35 Induction

Lockheed Wins $20M to Prepare Australia’s F-35 Induction

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $20,480,000 undefinitized contract modification (P00062) to previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract N00019-16-C-000) for additional labor in support of depot maintenance activities associated with the com…
US Should Withdraw Tactical Nukes from Europe: Think Tank

US Should Withdraw Tactical Nukes from Europe: Think Tank

— NATO’s tactical nuclear weapons are dangerous relics. Whereas during the Cold War tactical nuclear weapons were believed to help bolster deterrence, today they serve no functional purpose other than to unnecessarily escalate a local crisis—such as in the Baltic states—into a potential strategic c…
UK Task Group Sails for Three-Month Deployment to Med

UK Task Group Sails for Three-Month Deployment to Med

More than 1,000 sailors and Royal Marines have sailed on a three-month mission to the Mediterranean to forge the commando forces of tomorrow.

UK flagship HMS Albion has left the UK, heading a force which will visit numerous partner nations across the Mediterranean and Black Sea as the UK’s Armed …

Australia Orders Local Steel for Hunter-class Frigates

Australia Orders Local Steel for Hunter-class Frigates

Work on the Hunter Class Frigate Program is progressing as the prototyping phase of the program approaches.

The prime contractor for the Program, ASC Shipbuilding, has signed a contract with South Australian Company Infrabuild Steel Centre to support the manufacturing of the frigates at the Osbor…

Sailors Deploy with Marine Squadron to Prepare V-22 Transition

Sailors Deploy with Marine Squadron to Prepare V-22 Transition

KUWAIT — In February, the U.S. Navy took delivery of the first CMV-22B Osprey aircraft as the primary aircraft to conduct Airborne Re-supply/Logistics to the Sea Base. The CMV-22B platform will eventually replace the C-2 Greyhound across the Navy.

Modernization of any program, regardless of ser…

Royal Marines Warm Up for Commando Force Experimentation

Royal Marines Warm Up for Commando Force Experimentation

Royal Marines have limbered up for a busy autumn of experimentation with Future Commando Force exercises at the Bovington Training Area in Dorset.

The marines of Taunton-based 40 Commando took each other on in ‘force-on-force’ battle, which saw the commandos break off into small teams and use dev…


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