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A specially configured U.S. F-35B short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) Lightning II aircraft for the first time touched down on a Japanese naval vessel over the weekend for the […] ...
The Australian government on Monday announced a $4.7 billion deal to procure RTX [RTX] Standard Missile-2 Block IIIC (SM-2 IIIC) and SM-6 for its surface naval ships. “The Standard Missile‑6 […] ...
The Navy awarded BAE Systems’s Norfolk Ship Repair unit two contracts on Oct. 18 for maintenance, modernization and repair of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Laboon (DDG-58) and amphibious assault […] ...
The Navy relieved the top two officers of the U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center (SRF-JRMC) on Oct. 20, the service said on Sunday. Capt. Zaldy […] ...
The State Department on Friday approved a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) of hundreds of RTX [RTX] Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Block 2B tactical missiles and related equipment for Japan. […] ...
The Navy is looking into working with industry to potentially create a Ford-class aircraft carrier dry dock on the West Coast and Hawaii, according to a recent notice. In the […] ...