Navy/USMC

The future USS Sioux City (LCS-11) Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship finished its Navy acceptance trials last week, prime integrator Lockheed Martin [LMT] said on Thursday. The trials were conducted from […]

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The U.S. Navy commissioned the USS Manchester (LCS-14), the newest combat ship and Littoral Combat Ship on May 26 in Portmouth, N.H. LCS-14 is the 12th LCS and seventh Independence-variant […]

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) finished a successful set of initial sea trials for the latest Virginia-class attack submarine, the future USS Indiana (SSN-789), the company said […]

If not showered in funding, military rotorcraft procurement at least is funded at levels requested by the Defense Department in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) version of the fiscal […]

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s markup of its FY ’19 defense authorization bill does not allow additional Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) or authorize CVN-81 ahead of reports on a two-carrier […]

Boeing’s [BA] leader for the Super Hornet and Growler aircraft is optimistic that the company will see more international interest in F/A-18 Super Hornets. In a press event on Wednesday, […]

Boeing [BA] plans to start delivering the upgraded Block III F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets by the end of 2020 and plans to have finished delivering a full squadron of Block […]

Neither pilot error nor aircraft malfunction caused a V-22 Osprey to slam into the deck of an amphibious transport ship in August off the coast of Australia, according to an […]

The U.S. Navy is sticking with the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Mine Countermeasures (MCM) Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) program of record after finding no alternates provide adequate performance, according to […]