DARPA has successfully completed phase 1 of its Tactical Undersea Network Architecture (TUNA) program, a system of temporary sea buoys that will serve as a backup for military communications at sea. DARPA hopes to prove in the final phase that the TUNA Program is capable of maintaining the vital flow of data in the event […]
Can this Anti-Ship Missile’s Awesome Capabilities Be Beaten?
Kongsberg Defence Systems is reporting its Joint Strike Missile (JSM), a long-distance anti-ship missile designed to take on heavily defended, high value targets has successfully completed a long-range flight test aboard an F-16. Kongsberg says the missile has “unique capabilities for [its] class.” The Joint Strike Missile (JSM) has successfully completed a flight test in […]
India, Russia Looking to Double the Range of its Carrier Killing Missile
In an article published by Jane’s Defense, Rahul Bedi and Neil Gibson point out an agreement between India and Russia to double the range of their jointly developed BrahMos ship-killing missile. India and Russia have agreed to extend the range of their jointly developed BrahMos PJ-10 supersonic cruise missile beyond 292 km, Minister of State for […]
Zumwalt Set to Replace LRLAP With Raytheon’s Excalibur Round
USNI News is reporting that the U.S. Navy is looking to replace the Zumwalt’s overpriced $1 million dollar LRLAP with Raytheon’s Excalibur, which costs roughly $68,000 a round and has half the range of the 60 mile LRLAP. THE PENTAGON — The Navy is looking to Raytheon’s Excalibur guided artillery round to replace the effective […]
The Billion Dollar Breakdown – USS Zumwalt
The Navy‘s new $4 billion warship is in Panama for repairs after suffering a breakdown while passing through the Panama Canal on Monday evening. A spokesman for U.S. 3rd Fleet, Cmdr. Ryan Perry, told Military.com that the commander of 3rd Fleet, Vice Adm. Nora Tyson, had instructed the USS Zumwalt, the first in a new class of […]
U.S. Navy awards BAE Systems $192 Million Contract for Work on New DDG 1000 ships
The contract has an initial award of $10.3 million and a maximum value of $192.7 million for work through September 2021. “We’re pleased with the opportunity to help prepare the Zumwalt and Michael Monsoor for initial service in the fleet,” said Bob Koerber, vice president and general manager of BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair. […]
Britain’s New Aircraft Carrier is Less Than Six Months Away From Sea Trials
HM Naval Base Portsmouth is being readied for the arrival of the biggest warships ever constructed in the UK, the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers. The 65,000 tonne ships, which are over three times the size of the Invincible Class aircraft carriers, are expected to arrive in their home port of Portsmouth in 2017. Before […]
If it Floats it Fights – U.S. Navy Wants to Put Missiles on Everything
The U.S. Navy is putting more power behind its offensive punch with a strategy called “distributed lethality.” “Potential adversaries, particularly in the Pacific region, have invested in weapons designed to keep naval and U.S. Air Force assets from operating freely,” said Tom Copeman, a retired three-star admiral who commanded the Navy’s surface ships and is now a Raytheon […]
New Tech is Changing Undersea Warfare – A Battle Beneath the Waves
Miles off the California coast and deep under the ocean’s surface, the chase is on. The prey: a submarine from a rogue nation caught raising its periscope earlier in the day. The pursuer: a U.S. Navy battle group armed with futuristic undersea technology. With a bang and a burst of bubbles, a swarm of American undersea drones rockets out […]
The $360 Million Dollar LCS “Lemon Combat Ship”
Following the recent casualty on the littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Freedom, Vice Adm. Tom Rowden, ordered an engineering stand down as of September 5, for every LCS crew to review procedures and standards for their engineering departments. Four of the six LCSs currently in service have had some sort of propulsion failure. The USS Freedom is said […]
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