Defense company Raytheon will exhibit advanced technologies and services to support maritime superiority during annual Sea-Air-Space Exposition, the largest maritime exposition in the United States. Raytheon also announced on Monday that it will give details on U.S. Navy’s next generation integrated air and missile defense radar, known as SPY-6. The defense giant reported that new […]

The U.S. Marine Corps has announced that four MV-22B Ospreys from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 268 successfully completed a trans-Pacific flight from Okinawa, Japan to Marine Corps Base Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, on May 2, 2019. This has become a recurring milestone flight that the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing and VMM-268 have successfully completed. This flight […]

Airmen assigned to the Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron (VMFAT) 501 successfully conducted its first so-called “elephant walk” exercise, launching 20 F-35B Lightning II aircraft. In an extraordinary display of raw power, military might, and operational readiness, ground and air crews from VMFAT-501, launched 20 aircraft near simultaneously in support of scheduled training. “The safe […]

During a demonstration of next-generation technologies in support of Joint Warfighter Assessment 19 at Yakima Training Center was unveiled Assault Breacher Vehicle that was converted to armed robotic platform or surrogate combat vehicle. The surrogate robotic combat vehicle based on the Assault Breacher Vehicle (ABV) to enables soldiers to control robotic ground vehicle from a […]

AAI Corp., Textron Systems Corp. Unmanned Systems segment in Hunt Valley, was awarded a $20 million contract modification for engineering and technical services for the Unmanned Influence Sweep System (UISS) Unmanned Surface Vehicle program. According to a statement released by the U.S. Department of Defense, UISS is the system which will allow the Littoral Combat […]

The U.S. Navy on May 1 has announced commissioning date for future USS Billings (LCS 15) littoral combat ship. Several months after selecting Key West, Florida as host-city for the commissioning of the future USS Billings (LCS 15), Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer’s office announced that the event will take place August 3, 2019. […]

The U.S. Navy’s largest shipbuilder, Huntington Ingalls, has announced on Wednesday that it has delivered the National Security Cutter (NSC) Midgett (WMSL 757) to the U.S. Coast Guard. “Midgett is scheduled to sail away in June and will be commissioned later this year,” it said in a news release. Midgett is named in honor of 10 members […]

U.S. aerospace giant Boeing has released fascinating footage showing the moved of its latest MQ-25 unmanned aerial refueling drone from Boeing’s St. Louis facilities to MidAmerica St. Louis Airport, a small regional airport next to Scott Air Force Base in rural Illinois. In a video statement published on the aerospace giant’s Twitter page on May 1, […]

The U.S. Navy has announced on 29 April that for the first time in the littoral combat ship’s class history, Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center (SMWDC) conducted Surface Warfare Advanced Tactical Training in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area or operation (AOR). The training, which concluded April 22, provided the crew of the Independence-class […]

Florida-based defense contractor Harris Corporation has been awarded a $212 million contract modification to supply the next production lot of electronic jammers to protect U.S. Navy and Foreign Military Sales F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet aircraft against electronic threats. The contract, which represents the largest order on the program to date, was received during the […]