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X-47B Completes Key Milestone as it Prepares for Carrier Tests at Sea
PATUXENT RIVER, Md. (NNS) — The Navy’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator completed its first-ever arrested landing here May 4, another key step to mature the system for its historic carrier-based tests later this month.
“Landing an unmanned… Continue reading
Sikorsky Begins Delivering Record S-92 Helicopter Order
COATESVILLE, Pennsylvania – Sikorsky Global Helicopters (SGH) today announced delivery of the first of 16 completed S-92® helicopters that the Avincis Group will use to provide transportation for its customers’ offshore oil and gas crews and for search and rescue. … Continue reading
Italy’s coast guard searching for missing US F-16 off the Adriatic coast.
REUTERSAgustaWestland Signs £260 Million Sea King Integrated Operational Support Contract
AgustaWestland has signed a contract with the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence, valued at approximately £260 million, for the provision of Sea King Integrated Operational Support (SKIOS) from 1st April 2013 to the type’s out of service date in March… Continue reading
Fleet Air Arm squadron celebrates diamond jubilee
The Fleet Air Arm’s airborne early warning squadron are celebrating six decades of acting as the Royal Navy’s ‘eyes in the sky’.
Apart from a five-year break at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, 849… Continue reading
Space shuttle Enterprise moves to museum in NYC
US space shuttle Enterprise floated along New York’s Hudson River and finally docked at its new floating home in a museum on Wednesday. The prototype space shuttle rode a barge from Jersey City, New Jersey to the Intrepid Sea,… Continue reading
British Navy Search and Rescue squadron to begin Olympic Flame UK relay
The Olympic Flame is due to arrive at Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose tonight from where it will be carried in a Sea King helicopter to the start of the UK Torch Relay.
The London Organising Committee of the… Continue reading
Photo release: Retired ‘Phrogs’ leap back into service
Revitalized with the distinctive brand of the Department of State, a recently retired U.S. Marine Corps CH-46E Sea Knight “Phrog” has gained a new mission serving the nation. The first Phrog to wear the paint of the Bureau of Diplomatic… Continue reading
Sea Knight gets new life
Heard the adage the last CH-46 Phrog pilot hasn’t been born yet?
Well, he or she may have been born, but they’re probably still in middle school, thanks to a collaborative program between PMA-226 and the State Department.
“We are… Continue reading
Chinese aircraft carrier conducts sea trials
BEIJING – China’s aircraft carrier is underway carrying out scientific testing, a spokesman with the Ministry of National Defense said Wednesday.
Spokesman Yang Yujun said at a press briefing that after attaining objectives during its previous sea trials, the vessel… Continue reading
F-35B completes first sea trials on USS Wasp
The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) heads back toward homeport Oct. 21 after spending three weeks at sea hosting the initial sea trials of the F-35B Lightning II, Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
The first F-35B landed on Wasp‘s… Continue reading
British Army Apache fires first Hellfire missiles at sea
British Army Apache helicopters have recently fired Hellfire missiles for the first time whilst flying from a Royal Navy warship.
In a significant milestone in proving the capability of Apache to operate and strike from the sea, 30mm rounds and… Continue reading