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Royal Navy’s Newest Ship Ready for Action in Record Time

Royal Navy’s Newest Ship Ready for Action in Record Time

Britain’s newest warship is ready for front-line duties – just five months after the first sailors stepped aboard HMS Tamar.

In what is thought to be the fastest generation of a warship in peacetime, the Portsmouth-based ship has gone from incomplete lifeless hulk at the beginning of 2020 into a …

Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard Undocks USS Columbia (SSN 771)

Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard Undocks USS Columbia (SSN 771)

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii –– Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY & IMF) successfully undocked Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Columbia (SSN 771) July 16, 2020. The undocking was a major milestone in completing the submarine’s engineered overhaul (EOH) avail…
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…


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