The Royal Navy has announced on 3 April that the newest aircraft carrier, called the HMS Queen Elizabeth, returned to Rosyth for planned maintenance. The 65,000 tonne carrier was floated in July 2014 and sailed from Rosyth Dockyard for the first time in June 2017. Since then she has crossed the Atlantic to conduct historic […]

Sailors and Marines from all nations of the UK-led high-readiness Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) will take part in the deployment, due to take place in May, which will underline the importance of protecting Europe at a time of increased threat, according to UK Ministry of Defence. Nearly 2,000 UK Armed Forces personnel will deploy to […]

On April 3,  the U.S. Navy’s largest shipbuilder, Huntington Ingalls, announced its National Security Cutter Midgett successfully completed acceptance trials. Midgett, the eighth NSC Ingalls has built for the U.S. Coast Guard, spent two full days in the Gulf of Mexico proving the ship’s systems. “The success of these trials is a direct result of […]

New equipment training team or NETT, Marines train to become subject matter experts on new equipment, such as the ACV, in order to teach other Marines how to maintain and operate newly-fielded equipment. At its core, any Marine Corps New Equipment Training Team is responsible for—as the name suggests—arming Marines with the knowledge and skills […]

The U.S. Marine Corps is planning to order almost a 2.4 million polymer-cased .50 caliber machine gun ammunition, according to an update on a government business website. “Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) intends to award a sole-source contract to MAC, LLC of Bay Saint Louis, MS.,” said in a statement. The requirement is for polymer-cased […]

The U.S. Department of Defense has announced on 21 April that Pentagon’s No.1 weapons supplier Lockheed Martin Corp is being awarded a $12,8  modification to a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive contract for MQ-4C Triton aircraft upgrade. The U.S. Department of Defense noted that this modification upgrades three MQ-4C Triton aircraft from a baseline Integrated Functional Capability […]

The advanced F-35B Lightning II aircraft aboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1), with embarked Marines from Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force (SPMAGTF) 4, led by 4th Marine Regiment, arrived in Subic Bay on March 30, 2019, in preparation for Exercise Balikatan. According to a Stars and Stripes news report, […]

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) returned to sea for the first time in more than 18 months, according to a news release put out by Naval Air Force Atlantic. USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier now officially marking the end of the ship’s Planned Incremental Availability (PIA). For Sailor and […]

The People’s Liberation Army Navy has begun rough sea trials of its warship-mounted electromagnetic railgun installed on a Type 072II Yuting-class tank-landing ship, called the Haiyangshan. The Haiyangshan is a tank-landing ship converted for a new futuristic electromagnetic railgun that is expected to enter China’s arsenal by 2025. New videos taken and posted in Chinese […]

In March, teams from the F-35 Pax River Integrated Test Force and Edwards Air Force Base, California, completed testing on an improved probe light assembly for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps F-35 variants for night refueling. The F-35 program recently completed testing on an improved lighting assembly with the KC-135 that will enable […]