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North Korea arms its submarines with new cruise missiles
North Korean state media announced on Monday that its Armed Forces have successfully tested two submarine-launched cruise missiles (SLCM) for the first time. State media said the āunderwater launching drillā off the east coast serves as āproof of...
British Royal Navy seizes Iran’s ballistic missile components
British Royal Navy seized "anti-tank guided missiles" and missile components from an Iranian boat that was bound for Yemen, military officials announced Thursday. The operation, which occurred on Feb. 23, 2023, took place in the Gulf of Oman,...
US Navy awards contract to Lockheed Martin for heavyweight torpedoes
Lockheed Martin Corp. was awarded $16,8 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract in support of the Mark 48 heavyweight torpedo efforts. In a Feb. 24 contract announcement, the Navy said that this contract includes options that, if exercised, would bring the...
HII builds new submarine-construction facility
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Americaās largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of manufacturing, broke ground on a new facility that will support nuclear submarine construction at its Newport News Shipbuilding division. As noted by the company, the...
US Marine Corps sends 1300 Marines to Europe
The U.S. Marine Corps has announced the deployment ofĀ 1300 Marines for months-long training during Marine Rotational Force-Europe. The Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa said in a release that Marines from II Marine Expeditionary Force (II MEF), Camp...
UK Navy to receive Austrian-made drone helicopter
The Austrian company Schiebel announced on Friday that it has been awarded the contract for its rotary-wing drone. As noted by the company, Schiebel and Thales have been awarded the Uncrewed Air Systems (UAS) contract āPeregrineā by the...
US Navy conducts anti-ice test of MQ-4C Triton
The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command has announced that the MQ-4C Triton test team conducted the first flight to assess the unmanned aircraft systemās ability to fly with wing ice accumulation on Jan. 25 at Patuxent River. This...
US Marinesā new helicopter easily lifts F-35
The CH-53K King Stallion, the Marine Corpsā newest heavy-lift helicopter, demonstrated its heavy-lift capability, lifting an F-35 Lightning II for the first time at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md.Ā A CH-53K King Stallion with Marine Operational Test...