The Kaliningrad amphibious assault landing ship from Russia’s Baltic Fleet has set sail for the Baltic Sea to take part in the BALTOPS 2012 naval drills on June 1-16, the press service of the Western...
Lockheed Martin completed its most recent Persistent Threat Detection System (PTDS) order by delivering the 29th unit to the U.S. Army May 29.Since the program’s inception in 2004, the company has de...
Eastern command centerThe second command center of the space-based early-warning system is reported to have entered combat duty on 30 April 2012. The command center is located near Komsomolsk-on-Amur...
It looked like a textbook win-win deal when Australian high-speed ferry designer AMD Marine Consulting formed a joint venture in 1993 with the engineering arm of a state-owned Chinese shipbuilder.The...
Jacksonville Naval Air StationCapt. Robert Sanders told a handful of local leaders Thursday that Jacksonville Naval Air Station is as strong as ever and continuing to grow.“We are already planning ah...
Crowley Maritime Corporation’s 7,200-HP tugboat Warrior, towing the historic USS Iowa, safely arrived at a Los Angeles offshore anchorage this morning following a four-day tow from San Francisco. The...
The year was 1979. America’s military had emerged from the Vietnam War earlier in the decade and was now facing sizable and significant budget cuts.Capt. Tom Shanahan, commanding officer of the USS C...
The U.S. Navy today awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries a $2.38 billion fixed-price-incentive contract for the detail design and construction of the multipurpose amphibious assault ship Tripoli (LH...
The rescue vessel “Igor Belousov”, currently under construction for the Russian Navy, is going to receive autonomous underwater vehicles for rescue operations and deep-sea research. Manned mini-subma...
The Royal Norwegian Navy has put up a secret, mountainside submarine base for sale... and judging by what it looks like, it would work both as a superhero hideout and as a supervillain lair. Official...
A nuclear-powered submarine named the USS Mississippi is set to be commissioned this weekend in Pascagoula, welcoming it into the U.S. Navys fleet at a ceremony expected to draw thousands. Naval vess...
The guided-missile frigate USS Curts will depart San Diego Friday for its final deployment before decommissioning, the Navy announced Thursday.Over the next six months, the 453-foot-long Curts and it...
The U.S. Navy conducted successful test flights April 14 and 16 of four Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missiles (FBMs) built by Lockheed Martin. The Navy launched two unarmed missiles each day from th...
As three teams of U.S. Navy investigators prepared to board a nuclear submarine that caught fire at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard last week to assess the damage, senators from Maine and New Hampshire als...
Given the recent allegations by F-22 Raptor pilots that the aircraft has potentially deadly oxygen-system problems, it’s not surprising that questions are also being raised about the F-35 Joint Strik...
SpotterRF’s new backpack radar system is based around its three-pound M80 and four-pound M600C synthetic aperture radar modules. “Situational awareness at night collapses around you and NVGs limit a ...
Pakistan, today conducted a successful Flight Test of the indigenously developed Air Launched Cruise Missile, Hatf-VIII (Ra’ad). The Ra’ad Missile, with a range of over 350 KM, enables Pakistan to ac...
Rogachevo Airbase (Novaya Zemlya)Selected air units of Russia’s Western military district will start this year preparations to return to abandoned Arctic airfields, the commander of the district’s av...
Northrop Grumman Corporation and L-3 MAS announced plans today to join forces on a variant of the Northrop Grumman-produced Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft system (...
Minister of Defense Corneliu Dobritoiu told Agerpres, after a meeting with the reserve military that a team of specialists will go to the Netherlands and Portugal to assess the technical condition of...
It is widely believed that the Harper Conservatives lied about their knowledge of the cost of purchasing F-35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin during the 2011 campaign. Once accused of knowing and h...
Fighter jets and surface-to-air missiles are set to be deployed in Polands four host cities for the Euro 2012 tournament. Details of the deployment were cited in the Dziennik Polski daily, echoing th...
On a desert hilltop in the remote southwest of Israel stands a compelling argument against any notion that the Jewish state will launch an attack on Iran without the United States. The discreet compl...
Preparations for the second landing of the X-37B, the Air Forces unmanned, reusable space plane, are underway at Vandenberg Air Force Base.While the exact landing date and time will depend on technic...
Some design problems persist, some fixes remain to be made, but overall, the littoral combat ship Freedom is moving ahead to meet its deployment schedule for next spring, the commander of the Navy’s ...
St. Petersburgs Severnaya Verf shipyard floated out a new stealth corvette for the Russian Navy at an official ceremony on Wednesday.The Stoyky is the fourth Project 20380 or Steregushchy class corve...
The Russian Defence Ministry has signed contracts with Sevmash and Rubin for five Project 955A upgraded Borei A submarines, United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) spokesman Alexei Kravchenko has said....
The Ministry of Defence is refusing to attend a public meeting to discuss the placing of surface-to-air missiles on residential flats during the Olympics.Bow Quarter in Tower Hamlets - where 700 peop...
The Japanese Defense Ministry plans to deploy destroyers closer to North Korea to improve its ability to detect a North Korean rocket launch, sources close to the matter said Wednesday.The move comes...
Australian police are investigating Tenix, the countrys biggest defense contracting company.The federal police bribery taskforce is reportedly attempting to determine if the firm offered to underwrit...
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