Reporter: Navy/Missile Defense
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Rich Abott
Articles By Richard
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Navy/USMCLockheed Martin’s MQ-25 Has No Prototype, But An F-18 Engine
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Lockheed Martin [LMT] revealed Monday its MQ-25 Stingray carrier-based unmanned tanker offering does not have a completed prototype and will use the General Electric [GE] F404 […]
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Navy/USMCItaly Live Fire Tests AARGM, U.S. Navy Says AARGM-ER Will Have Notable Range Improvement
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) revealed last week the Italian Air Force conducted a successful test of the AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile […]
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UncategorizedMQ-8C Testing Link 16
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The U.S. Navy said Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] MQ-8C unmanned helicopter is proceeding apace and the service is focusing on getting the aircraft into the field and […]
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UncategorizedPoland And U.S. Sign $4.75 Billion Agreement For Patriot Missile Defenses
Poland signed a Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) to buy Raytheon’s [RTN] Patriot air and missile defense system, interceptors, and a battle management system for upward of $4.75 billion during […]
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Navy/USMCBoeing Shows Off MQ-25 Offering, Uses Global Hawk Engine
ST LOUIS, Mo. — Boeing [BA] showed off its MQ-25 Stingray carrier-based unmanned air system (UAS) offering to reporters at its facility here on Thursday and revealed it will use […]
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Navy/USMCNavy’s LCS Mission Modules, IDECM Breach Nunn-McCurdy
Two Navy programs have significant and critical Nunn-McCurdy cost breaches, the Defense Department said in its annual Selected Acquisition Reports (SAR) covering 2017. The SAR, released late Tuesday, reported the […]
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Navy/USMCLCS-9 Departs Montreal After Three-Month Ice Delay
The Littoral Combat Ship USS Little Rock (LCS-9) has finally left Montreal, Canada this week after getting caught there for three months due to icey conditions preventing it from traveling […]
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UncategorizedBoeing Inks $1 Billion Contract For Early Work On 28 Kuwait Super Hornets
The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) awarded Boeing [BA] a nearly $1.2 billion undefinitized contract action on Friday for long-lead engineering needed to develop the baseline configuration to build and […]
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Navy/USMCDDG-116 Finishes Builder’s Trials
The future USS Thomas Hudner (DDG-116) Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer successfully finished builder’s trials on March 31, the Navy said on Monday. The trials included a set of in-port and […]
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MBDA Wins $566 Million U.K. Contract To Extend Brimstone Missile Life Past 2030
The United Kingdom awarded MBDA a $566 million contract to extend the service life of the Brimstone air-to-surface missile through the capability sustainment program (CSP), the company said March 27. Through the […]