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Northrop Grumman’s Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS), which combines multiple current air and missile defense command and control systems into one, has been granted initial operational capability. This means it can begin active deployment.Continu… Continue reading Northrop Grumman’s IBCS C&C defense system takes command
The US Navy recently completed tank tests of a new deep-diving suit called the Deep Sea Expeditionary with No Decompression (DSEND) system that is light and flexible, yet maintains sea-level internal pressure around the wearer even when hundreds of fee… Continue reading Game-changing DSEND suit protects deep sea divers from pressure dangers
The US, UK, and Australian governments have issued a joint statement outlining the AUKUS treaty plan to provide the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) with nuclear-powered attack submarines, which includes the development of a new British-designed AUKUS-class… Continue reading Australia to receive new design nuclear submarine under AUKUS treaty
Lockheed Martin has secured a contract worth a potential US$2 billion to install Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) hypersonic missile launchers on the US Navy’s three Zumwalt-class destroyers by the middle of the decade.Continue ReadingCategory: Militar… Continue reading US Zumwalt destroyers first to get hypersonic missiles under new deal
By now everyone has probably seen the devastation wrought by the structural failure of what was once the world’s largest free-standing cylindrical aquarium. The scale of the tank, which until …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: December 18, 2022
NASA’s Artemis 1 lunar mission ended today in a splashdown of the uncrewed Orion capsule in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California at 9:40 am PST, after which it was recovered by the amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland.Continue Read… Continue reading Artemis 1 lunar mission splashes down after record-breaking flight
The age of the ray gun is almost upon us after the US Navy took delivery of a near-operational high-energy tactical laser weapon called the High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system from Lockheed Martin that can… Continue reading US Navy takes delivery of tactical Lockheed Martin laser weapon
Robotic ships have officially joined the US Navy. The Program Executive Office, Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC) announced on July 22 that the Navy’s Unmanned Influence Sweep System (UISS) uncrewed minesweeper has been awarded Initial Operating … Continue reading US Navy robotic minesweeper ship declared operational
The construction of America’s next-generation strategic nuclear missile submarine has formally begun as the keel was ceremonially laid for the future USS District of Columbia (SSBN 826) at Electric Boat’s facility in Quonset Point, Rhode Island.Continu… Continue reading Keel laid for US Navy’s next-generation nuclear missile submarine
In what it describes as the most significant demonstration of its kind in half a century, the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) beamed 1.6 kW of power over a kilometer (3,280 ft) using a microwave beam at the US Army Research Field in Maryland.Continu… Continue reading US Navy wirelessly beams 1.6 kW of power a kilometer using microwaves