DefenceTalkUSS Coronado (LCS 4) successfully completed the Navy’s Total Ship Survivability Trial (TSST) off the coast of California, Jan. 28. During the test event, the crew handled realistic damage simulations, including fire, smoke, electrical failure, flooding, ruptured piping, and structural failure. The scenarios benefited the crew by offering realistic damage control training in preparation for […]https://www.defencetalk.com/uss-coronado-completes-survivability-test-66715/

DefenceTalkThe recent United States Navy Persian Gulf seizure on the 12th of January, 2016, involved two CB-90-class fast assault craft, known in U.S. service as Riverine Command Boats (RCB) along with their 10 crew members. This article will take a look at the CB-90. The Combat Boat 90 Half (abbreviated as CB-90H; 90 referring to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/cb-90-class-fast-assault-craft-66512/

DefenceTalkA former US Navy SEAL kept an unauthorized photo of Osama Bin Laden’s corpse on a computer that he turned over to investigators, a US news site reported Tuesday. The discovery came after Matthew Bissonnette, who shot Bin Laden in the infamous 2011 raid on the Al-Qaeda leader’s compound in Pakistan, gave investigators a copy […]https://www.defencetalk.com/retired-us-navy-seal-had-bin-laden-corpse-photo-media-66432/

DefenceTalkWashington: A navigational error caused two US Navy vessels to stray into Iranian waters, Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said Thursday, as opponents of the Obama administration voiced increasing anger over the US response to the incident. Carter provided no detail but said “a navigational error of some kind” led to the two small patrol boats […]https://www.defencetalk.com/navigational-error-to-blame-in-iran-incident-pentagon-66376/

DefenceTalkRaytheon Company’s SeaRAM anti-ship missile defense system used a Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 for the first time to intercept an incoming target during a U.S. Navy live-fire exercise at China Lake in California. Raytheon Company’s SeaRAM anti-ship missile defense system used a Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 for the first time to intercept an […]https://www.defencetalk.com/searam-hits-target-with-newest-missile-variant-in-us-navy-test-66347/

DefenceTalkThe sailors are said to have been detained by Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces after the vessels drifted into Iranian waters Two US Navy boats and up to 10 US Navy sailors have been taken into custody in Iran – according to reports. The AFP news agency has said the Pentagon is working to recover its […]https://www.defencetalk.com/two-us-navy-boats-and-10-crew-members-taken-into-custody-by-iran-66330/

DefenceTalkRaytheon Company (RTN) has been awarded a $255,281,689 fixed-price-incentive firm target modification to a previously awarded contract to procure mission system equipment for the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG 1002). This contract modification includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this award to $349,243,022. Work will be performed in Portsmouth, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-awarded-255-million-for-ddg-1002-66264/

DefenceTalkBUCHAREST, Romania: The U.S. Ambassador to Romania, Mr. Hans Klemm and Romanian Foreign Minister, Lazar Comanescu announced the major military components of the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System in Romania have been transferred to the operational commander, Commander, U.S. 6th Fleet, in a ceremony held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dec. 18, 2015. The […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-navy-6th-fleet-receives-aegis-ashore-romania-from-mda-66161/

DefenceTalkLockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy recently completed the first Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) prototype captive-carry flight tests on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. The flights were conducted at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Maryland. These initial airworthiness flight tests used a LRASM mass-simulator vehicle attached to the Navy’s F/A-18E/F to evaluate flight and handling […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-navy-lockheed-conduct-first-lrasm-captive-carry-flights-on-f-18-66100/

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/