Boeing Received Seven Contracts Of P-8A Poseidon Aircraft By US Navy

Boeing on Nov. 3 received a $1.7 billion low-rate initial production (LRIP) award from the U.S. Navy for seven additional P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft. LRIP-II is the follow-on to an initial LRIP-I contract awarded in January to provide six Poseidon aircraft. Overall, the Navy plans to purchase 117 Boeing 737-based P-8A anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare,

Disposal of nuclear-powered submarines

 

More than ten years after Project ISOLUS (Interim Storage of Laid-Up Submarines) was created to determine a strategy for the storage and disposal of submarine reactor compartments and associated hull structures, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has launched a public consultation exercise to present options for dismantling the growing number of retired Royal

Fifth Littoral Combat Ship, The Future USS Milwaukee

 

A Lockheed Martin led industry team held a keel-laying ceremony at Marinette Marine’s shipyard for the future USS Milwaukee, the U.S. Navy’s fifth Littoral Combat Ship (LCS).

The term, lay the keel, in shipbuilding language,

Boeing delivers c-40 aircraft to US navy

Boeing delivered the 12th C-40A aircraft to the U.S. Navy on Oct. 21. The Boeing 737-700 derivative was modified at the company's Wichita facility for troop and cargo transport missions Boeing and Navy representatives marked the milestone with a ceremonial "passing of the key" at the Wichita facility before the aircraft departed for its home base at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego.

Underwater Intruder Interception

Rafael is soon to complete development on the Torbuster – an underwater interception missile system designed to actively defend submarines against vessel- and helicopter-launched torpedoes.

Torpedoes are a deadly threat to submarines. For twenty-five years Rafael has been manufacturing the Scutter - a "reactive expendable acoustic torpedo decoy". The system launches a signal-transmitting decoy that imitates the signals a submarine emits, thereby attracting the incoming torpedo, whose homing device is based on acoustic identification. Unlike the Scutter that operates according to the "soft kill" principle (altering the sensory system of the

Latest Gigabit Ethernet Data Multiplex System on USS Spruance Navalship

 

Boeing has announced that it has installed the first Gigabit Ethernet Data Multiplex System (GEDMS) on the USS Spruance (DDG 111), a newly constructed Arleigh Burke-Class guided-missile destroyer.

GEDMS is a data transfer network that provides a highly reliable, redundant, mission-critical network backbone to any ship in the U.S. Navy inventory. The Spruance was commissioned Oct. 1 during a ceremony at Naval Air Station Key West, Fla.

Vertical Landing of F-35B at Sea

 

In an audacious display of confidence, the U.S. Marine Corps and the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program office demonstrated short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) tests of the F-35B Lightning II to reporters onboard the amphibious assault ship Wasp on Oct. 18. 

Flown by Marine Lt. Col. Fred Shenk, F-35B test aircraft BF-04 flew a series of short take-offs and vertical landings onboard the 40,000-ton warship

IAI Hovercraft Which Can Carry a 200 kg Payload

 

Brigadier General (Res.) Shmuel Yachin, head of the Israel Aerospace Industries’ land division, predicts that robotics will be entering the tactical battlefield en mass by 2015.

Yachin, a former head of IDF R&D, told IsraelDefense that robotic systems are entering the tactical field by land, sea, and air. “Towards the year 2015, we will see a huge increase in that area, and that will continue at an enhanced pace until the end

South Korea's DSME is dealing with Indonesia over Type 209 submarines

 

South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has announced that it is in discussions with the Indonesian Ministry of Defence (MoD) over the potential export of its licensed-produced Type 209 diesel-electric submarine.

A statement from DSME on the Korea Exchange on 10 October said that the potential contract is valued at KRW1.2 trillion (USD1

L-3 MAPPS Degaussing Systems Has Been Equiped Into Royal Canadian Navy KINGSTON-Class Vessels

L-3 MAPPS announced today that it has been awarded a contract to supply degaussing systems for the Royal Canadian Navy's 12 KINGSTON-Class Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels. These advanced degaussing systems will be delivered and supported locally in collaboration with SAM Electronics, an L-3 company, which produces one of the most effective means of ship protection against modern sea mines. The SAM Electronics solution reduces

Northrop Grumman Will Upgrades Enhance Royal Australian Navy Frigate Anti-Ship Missile Defence Systems

 

System upgrades provided by Northrop Grumman into the ANZAC Class frigate HMAS Perth helped optimize the performance of the ship's Anti-Ship Missile Defence (ASMD) system during recent sea trials conducted by the Royal Australian Navy.

Northrop Grumman supplied equipment containing a military-grade Global Positioning System (GPS)

Dutch frigates to gain BMD capability

The Smart-L air search radars in the Royal Netherlands Navy's De Zeven Provinciën-class frigates are to be upgraded with an extended long-range (ELR) mode, the Dutch Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 26 September.

Costing a projected EUR250 million (USD340 million), the technology insertion will allow the four frigates to detect and track ballistic missiles up to an estimated range of 2,000 km.

CHINA NAVAL POWER

 

China's navy is playing an important role in the country's drive to become a world military power, with the recent trials of its first aircraft carrier underlining the scale of Beijing's naval ambitions.

China has become increasingly assertive on the high seas and the carrier's first outing last month sparked jitters in the United States and Japan, which said the move would have a

Bell Helicopter's 429 Selected for Royal Australian Navy

Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company (NYSE: TXT), announced today it was awarded a new contract by Raytheon Australia to provide three Bell 429s for the Royal Australian Navy's Retention and Motivation Initiative.

The Retention and Motivation Initiative provides the Royal Australian Navy with supported aircraft to allow junior qualified aircrew to

BULWARK RETURNS TO FLEET ON TIME

 

She set sail again after successfully completing sea trials following an 11 month support period, delivered on-time and in-budget.  The upgrade and maintenance programme was undertaken by Babcock at Devonport Royal Dockyard.  This was the ship’s first docking since being formally commissioned into the Royal Navy in April 2005 and

MBDA's next generation naval missile system prepares for global success

 

MBDA’s Future Local Area Air Defence System (FLAADS-Maritime) programme is achieving key development milestones that exemplify the high maturity and global market potential of the system. The FLAADS-M system will equip the Royal Navy’s Type 23 frigates and future Global Combat Ship and can easily be integrated

HMS Astute murderer

A Royal Navy submariner has been jailed for life after pleading guilty to shooting an officer dead and attempting to kill three more aboard the navy's first-in-class attack submarine HMS Astute in April this year.

Ryan Samuel Donovan, 23, of Hillside Road, Dartford, Kent, pleaded guilty to the murder of Lieutenant Commander Ian Molyneux, 36, with an SA80

U.S. Is Preparing Destroyers for 35-Year Lives

 

U.S. destroyers, was berthed earlier this month just opposite one of the newest of the breed, the Jason Dunham (DDG 109). The Burke's smart outward appearance belied its 20-plus years in the fleet, and inside, courtesy of a major modernization, the ship now boasts major upgrades that rival many of the new systems in its 1-year-old fleet mate. 

"I was worried about regaining our proficiency after nine months in the shipyard," said Cmdr.

Royal Navy 45 HMS Dragon

 

The Royal Navy is to take delivery of the fourth of the six Type 45 Destroyers set to ultimately form the backbone of its future maritime capability.

The warship involved, HMS Dragon, is set to arrive in Portsmouth on 31 August and, here, will be ceremoniously handed-over.

The exchange places HMS Dragon's manufacturer, BAE Systems, on course to deliver the last Type 45, HMS Duncan, to the Royal Navy by the start of 2013. Prior to that, HMS Defender, the fifth Type 45, will begin its sea trials in about two months time.

GHOST STEALTH SHIP

 

Juliet Marine systems, Inc. have announced the secrecy orders that previously prevented photographs being shown of its GHOST stealth ship have been lifted, revealing it to the public for the first time.

GHOST Stealth Ship Technology

The GHOST stealth ship has been made less visable to radar in the same way aircraft stealth technology was developed, by bouncing radar waves away preventing the radar from receiving a signal back. As seen in the photograph,