Source: TASS Russian News Agency The Russian Navy is expected to adopt for service the advanced Futlyar deep-water torpedo that is undergoing its state trials now, a source in the defense industry told TASS on Wednesday. According to the source, the Futlyar is an upgraded variant of the Fizik homing torpedo that has entered service […]
Russia’s Borei Class Submarine
Source: Naval-Technology Borei Class is a Russian fourth-generation nuclear-powered missile submarine. It is intended to eventually replace the ageing Delta III and Typhoon Class submarines and become an important deterrent of the Russian Navy. It is the first class of submarines developed by Russia since the soviet era. Designated Project 935, it began in 1996 to manufacture […]
U.S. Navy Developing Underwater Navigation System for Unmanned Vehicles
Source: BAE Systems DARPA has selected BAE Systems for its POSYDON – Positioning System for Deep Ocean Navigation – program. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected BAE Systems to develop an undersea navigation system aimed at enhancing the U.S. Navy’s ability to provide precise, global positioning throughout the ocean basins. The […]
Russia Building 12 Monstrous Warships, Each Loaded with 200 Missiles
Source: Asia Times Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) is expected to sign a contract with the Kremlin to build a massive new warship called Project 23560 Lider (or Leader in English) after the design is finalized later this year. “At present, Preliminary Design 23560 Leader is under consideration at the Ministry of Defense,” Igor Ponomarev, […]
MK 48 Heavyweight Torpedo Returns to Production With Advanced Sonar System
Source: Australian Defense Magazine Lockheed Martin will provide the US Navy’s MK48 Mod 7 CBASS torpedoes with increased bandwidth and streamlined targeting and tracking capabilities under a new $US 425 million US contract. Part of a five-year effort to increase the inventory of the MK48 Mod 7 heavyweight torpedoes for the US Navy’s submarine fleet, the […]
Russia Will Have Hypersonic Ship Killers on Its Battlecruisers by 2022
Source: Popular Mechanics The Russian Navy will start sending so-called hypersonic missiles to sea as early as 2022. Capable of flying five to six times the speed of sound, the missiles will be carried by both aging battlecruisers and brand-new submarines, giving each the ability to quickly kill enemy ships. Currently in advanced stages of […]
U.S. Navy Installing SeaRAM on Destroyers to Address Vunerability
Source: U.S. Naval Institute The Navy successfully launched the Raytheon SeaRAM Anti-Ship Missile Defense System from an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer for the first time ever on March 4, a final step in rapidly fielding a self-defense capability on the Mediterranean-based USS Porter (DDG-78) through an unconventional acquisition process. Porter last week went through […]
U.S. Navy’s New Drone Ship Begins Tests at Sea
Source: DARPA DARPA today is holding a christening ceremony for the technology demonstration vessel it has developed and built through the Agency’s Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program. Taking place in Portland, Oregon, the event marks the vessel’s formal transition from a DARPA-led design and construction project to a new stage of […]
Boeing’s Echo Voyager UUV: Can Operate Autonomously for Months
Source: Boeing.com Boeing today introduced Echo Voyager, its latest unmanned, undersea vehicle (UUV), which can operate autonomously for months at a time thanks to a hybrid rechargeable power system and modular payload bay. The 51-foot-long vehicle is not only autonomous while underway, but it can also be launched and recovered without the support ships that normally […]
Pentagon Concerned: China Test Fires YJ-62 in Disputed Waters
China has deployed and test fired the YJ-62 anti-ship missile, a rough equivalent to America’s RGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile. Reports of the test firing of the YJ-62 anti-ship missile took place on Woody Island, also known as Yongxing Island by the Chinese, in the South China Sea. The YJ-62 has a range of 280km (150 NM) […]
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