Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCNavy Communications Satellite Launched
The Navy’s third of a new constellation of satellites designed to allow mobile warfighters to communicate in beyond-the-line-of-sight scenarios has been successfully launched into orbit, the service said. The Mobile […]
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Air ForceJapan Selects E-2D, Global Hawk, Makes V-22 Official
Japan has announced that it plans to buy E-2D early warning and command and control aircraft and the Global Hawk for intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance missions as part of an […]
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Navy/USMCDecision to Use LPD-17 Derivative as LX(R) Meshes Nicely With Navy Surface Fleet Vision
Director of Expeditionary Warfare Maj. Gen. Robert Walsh said at the Surface Navy Association’s annual symposium that the Navy and Marine Corps’ plan for its LX(R) amphibious dock landing ship […]
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ArmyStrategic Landpower Task Force Working on Doctrine Dealing with ‘Human Domain’
The Strategic Landpower Task Force, two years into its work to promote the “human domain” of warfare and develop a doctrine dealing with how to influence and leverage the behavior […]
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Navy/USMCV-22 Can Do More Than Carrier Deliveries, Navy Acquisition Chief Says
The V-22 Ospreys would be capable of carrying out multiple tasks in addition to conducting deliveries to aircraft carriers, Navy acquisition chief Sean Stackley said Thursday, while stopping short of […]
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ArmyNavy Awards 4th APKWS Full-Rate Production Contract; Apache Qualification Likely This Year
The Navy awarded BAE Systems $45 million for its fourth full-rate production (FRP) contract of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS), which for now will be used to add […]
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Navy/USMCCalling Them Frigates, Navy Aims For Upgraded Version Of LCSs Sooner
The Navy now wants to introduce all of the newly planned capabilities for more lethal firepower and survivability on the Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) sooner than previously stated and will […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Moving Toward Interfacing New AMDR Radar With Aegis
The Navy has begun working through the specifications required to introduce the new Air Missile Defense Radar to the Aegis air and ballistic missile defense combat system deployed on Arleigh […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Eyeing A ‘Hunter Killer’ Surface Fleet With More Firepower
The Navy’s commander for surface warfare believes the fleet needs to adopt a more offensive capability by adding weapons to ships that can strike sea targets at greater distances, forming […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Manning Up the DDG-1000 Zumwalt
The Navy is going to increase the manpower on the first of a new class of land attack destroyers known as the Zumwalt-class DDG-1000s to account for greater need in […]