DefenceTalkNimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) got underway for sea trails, May 9, following a four-year refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) at Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia. The four-day sea trails marks Abraham Lincoln’s first time underway since March 2013. The ship spent its last days in the shipyard completing a five-day […]https://www.defencetalk.com/uss-abraham-lincoln-cvn-72-underway-for-sea-trials-69946/

DefenceTalkThe future USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is underway for its first set of sea trials, known as Builder’s Sea Trials (BST). Builder’s sea trials provide an opportunity to test systems, components and compartments at sea for the first time. Over the next several days, CVN 78 Sailors, shipbuilders from Huntington Ingalls Industries – […]https://www.defencetalk.com/future-uss-gerald-r-ford-underway-for-builders-sea-trials-69692/

DefenceTalkAircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) pulled into San Diego, Oct. 10, after completing a successful six-day sea trials and officially marking the completion of a 20-month extended planned incremental availability. Nimitz got underway for the first time since January 2015 when it pulled away from the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Oct. 5, to begin […]https://www.defencetalk.com/uss-nimitz-successfully-completes-sea-trials-68366/

DefenceTalkSailors aboard the Pre-Commissioning Unit John P. Murtha (LPD 26) successfully tested the Navy’s first High Frequency Distribution Amplifier Group (HF DAG) system during Builder’s Sea Trials March 1-3 and Acceptance Sea Trials April 13-15 in the Gulf of Mexico. During these trials, the HF DAG system successfully transmitted and received transmissions between LPD 26 […]https://www.defencetalk.com/lpd-26-first-ship-to-successfully-test-new-technology-afloat-67298/

DefenceTalkThe largest US destroyer ever built headed for sea trials Monday, its angular radar-evading form cutting a distinctive figure on Maine’s Kennebec River, the US Navy said. The $4.3 billion USS Zumwalt is the first in a new line of revolutionary guided missile destroyers. Hundreds of workers were on hand to cheer the ship as […]https://www.defencetalk.com/revolutionary-us-zumwalt-class-guided-missile-destroyer-ddg-1000-sea-trial-navy-66005/

DefenceTalkHuntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced today that the newest Virginia-class submarine, John Warner (SSN 785), successfully completed its initial sea trials on Saturday. Sea trials are aggressive operational tests that demonstrate the submarine’s capabilities at sea. John Warner, the first Virginia-class submarine to be named for a person, is being built as part of a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/virginia-class-submarine-john-warner-ssn-785-successfully-completes-initial-sea-trials-64340/

DefenceTalkChina’s first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, left its homeport of Qingdao in east China’s Shandong Province for the South China Sea on Tuesday on a scientific and training mission. This is the first time the carrier has conducted a cross-sea training voyage since it was commissioned into the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy last year, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/chinas-aircraft-carrier-leaves-for-sea-trials-49754/

DefenceTalkThe Lockheed Martin F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft completed its 500th vertical landing August 3. BF-1, the aircraft which completed this achievement, also accomplished the variant’s first vertical landing in March 2010 at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. Next week, Sea Trials, known as Developmental Test 2 (DT-2) are scheduled to begin for […]https://www.defencetalk.com/f-35b-ready-for-sea-trials-48705/

DefenceTalkChina’s first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, has left its homeport of Qingdao in east China’s Shandong Province to conduct scientific experiments and sea training, naval authorities said Tuesday. This was the first time for the carrier to leave its homeport to conduct training voyage since it anchored there in February, according to the People’s Liberation […]https://www.defencetalk.com/chinas-first-aircraft-carrier-leaves-homeport-for-sea-trials-48077/

DefenceTalkRussia’s Project 885 Yasen-class attack submarine, the Severodvinsk, has embarked on its latest series of official tests in the White Sea, the manufacturer said Monday. Sevmash shipyard spokeswoman Yekaterina Pilikina said the tests had started several days ago, without providing details on their time frame or scope. The shipyard had earlier said the submarine would […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russias-new-nuclear-sub-in-sea-trials-48027/