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HII completes flight deck of Ford-class carrier John F. Kennedy
Jul 12, 2019 (UPI)
A gantry crane lifted the 780-ton, steel-structured section of the upper bow, which is known as a superlift, into place at Newport News Shipbuilding division, t...
Electric Boat nabs $173.8M for support of Navy's strategic, attack subs
Jul 12, 2019 (UPI)
The Groton, Conn., company will provide engineering, technical, design agent and planning yeard support for the Navy's operational strategic and attack submarin...
U.S., Australian military hold HIMARS training for Talisman Sabre
Jul 09, 2019 (UPI)
Members of the Marine Corps, Army and Air Force demonstrated the HIRAIN capability to their Australian counterparts Saturday. The biennial training, which runs ...
Aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan arrives in Australia
Jul 08, 2019 (UPI)
The USS Ronald Reagan and the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville pulled into Brisbane on Friday for the visit, days before it will pa...
Russia buries navy officers killed in sub fire
Jul 06, 2019 (AFP)
The officers died in the Barents Sea on Monday, but the accident was only made public a day later. Moscow has said the crew was studying the sea floor and that ...
Romania awards warship contract to France's Naval Group
Jul 03, 2019 (AFP)
"I strongly believe it's an important moment for Romania's naval forces which haven't received any new equipment in the last 30 years", Gabriel Les told reporte...
Kremlin says details of deadly sub fire 'state secret'
Jul 03, 2019 (AFP)
But apparently under pressure from critics, the defence ministry published the names and photographs of the victims who it said had saved "their comrades and th...
Navy turns to outside experts to fix Ford carrier's elevator problems
Jul 02, 2019 (UPI)
Only two of Ford's 11 elevators, which are run with electromagnetic, linear synchronous motors, are operational. They allow for greater capacities and a faster ...
14 crew killed in fire on Russian sub
Jul 02, 2019 (AFP)
Russian officials have offered little information about the vessel or the circumstances of the accident, but the presence of many senior ranking officers on boa...
LCS USS Montgomery arrives in Philippines on first deployment
Jul 01, 2019 (UPI)
The ship, with 70 personnel on board, is on its first deployment after leaving its home port of San Diego without announcement of its departure, the Navy said o...
USS Carney participates in Sea Breeze 2019 naval exercise in Ukraine
Jul 01, 2019 (UPI)
The destroyer began its northbound transit from the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea on Saturday to participate in the exercise, which is designed to enhance ...
Navy to christen littoral combat ship Oakland on Saturday
Jun 28, 2019 (UPI)
Kate Brandt, who is Google's sustainability officer, will serve as the Oakland's sponsor and christen the ship by breaking a bottle of sparkling wine across the...
Chinese military gets Hong Kong harbour dock, despite tensions
Jun 28, 2019 (AFP)
Huge rallies have shaken the semi-autonomous territory this month, with demonstrators calling for the withdrawal of a bill that would allow extraditions to the ...
UK holds largest Baltic naval drills in century to deter Russia
Jun 28, 2019 (AFP)
Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt said the British-led Joint Expeditionary Force, a rapid response unit, has reached a "new scale" in the exercise that included ...
L3 awarded $73.7M for Navy submarine photonics mast programs
Jun 25, 2019 (UPI)
Ninety-eight percent of the work will be performed at the company's plant in Northampton, Mass., the Department of Defense announced Monday, and is expected to ...
Leidos awarded $72.8M for Navy's TRAPS sub detection system
Jun 24, 2019 (UPI)
The company, based in Reston, Va., will perform work on the Transformational Reliable Acoustic Path System, or TRAPS, one of two prototypes developed by the Def...
Navy issues final request for next-generation frigate proposals
Jun 21, 2019 (UPI)
The request for proposals, or RFP, are for the first 10 ships -- one base ship and nine option vessels. The Navy said Thursday it expects to award a contract to...
Limpet mines: classic maritime weapon
Jun 20, 2019 (AFP)
The cone-shaped devices can be nailed or magnetically attached to the metal hull of vessels. Like sea limpets -- the creatures that latch on to rocks -- these m...
Ecuador denies Galapagos Islands will host US military base
Jun 18, 2019 (AFP)
"There are not, nor will there be, foreign military bases in the country," Moreno wrote on Twitter, expressing his commitment to preserving the Galapagos Island...
Littoral combat ship USS Minneapolis-St. Paul christening is Saturday
Jun 14, 2019 (UPI)
The ship, designed for near-shore environments, is also designated LCS 21. Rep. Betty McCullum, D-Minn., whose congressional district includes the city of St. P...
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