Wednesday, May 8, 2024
The Australian Defence Forces recently submitted an official letter of request for a foreign military sale of at least 1,000 units of the U.S. Navy's Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System laser-guided rocket, according to a BAE Systems official.
A joint team investigating an engine fire onboard an Air Force Joint Strike Fighter this summer has validated the root cause of the incident and briefed its findings Oct. 10, according to a spokesman from the F-35 joint program office.
An accident investigation board looking into the root cause of an engine fire on an Air Force F-35 fighter jet this summer has not yet returned its findings, according to an executive from engine-maker Pratt & Whitney.
Norway has requested 6.9 billion kroner (nearly $1.07 billion) from Parliament to invest in six new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets, to be delivered in 2019.
The Navy recently deployed a solid-state laser for the first time from a ship at sea, according to a Navy spokesman.
Navy operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have cost less than $100 million so far, according to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus.
The Marines are emphasizing the importance of seabasing to the future of the service with a reorganization that will elevate the seabasing integration division to a standalone unit within combat development and integration.
The Navy successfully launched the Naval Strike Missile, a surface-to-surface missile developed by the Norwegian defense company Kongsberg, from a Littoral Combat Ship on Sept. 23, the service announced.
The Pentagon and the Office of Management and Budget have asked Congress for permission to use wartime dollars to fund increased naval operations in Iraq, according to a Navy official and a reprogramming request obtained by Inside the Navy.
Foreign militaries have shown interest in purchasing some of the systems on board the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship, but the Navy is not seeing as much international interest in the LCS hull design, according to a service official.
A Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion aircraft assigned to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit crashed earlier on Monday at sea in the Gulf of Aden, according to a Navy statement.
The Navy on Friday awarded Bath Iron Works a contract worth up to $100 million for modernization work on both variants of the Littoral Combat Ship.
ABOARD THE USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN-71) -- The Navy on Sunday held its first demonstration of carrier-based integrated flight operations involving manned and unmanned aircraft, with the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System-Demonstrator's most recent detachment aboard the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt.
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter test aircraft are now able to fly up to six hours between engine inspections for weapons testing and aerial refueling missions, according to a spokesman from the JSF joint program office.
The Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding division a $49.6 million contract to begin planning work associated with defueling the aircraft carrier George Washington, a move HII hopes is the first step toward an award of the full refueling contract.
Senior Navy leadership is reviewing the preliminary findings of a small surface combatant task force set up to develop proposals for an alternative to the Littoral Combat Ship, a Navy official said on the day the task force was supposed to present its findings to top brass.
Although several officials have said a Navy and Marine Corps team has completed an analysis of alternatives for a notional LX(R) program to modernize the services' aging dock landing ships, the Navy's top acquisition official said Friday that the team is looking at a third and possibly a fourth "pass" on the effort.
FARNBOROUGH, ENGLAND -- The first flight of the Marine Corps' CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter has been delayed until next year, Inside the Navy has learned.
FARNBOROUGH, ENGLAND -- Lockheed Martin has conducted a flight of the Navy F-35C carrier variant, and all versions of the Joint Strike Fighter are scheduled to resume flight by the end of Thursday, a company spokesman said.
FARNBOROUGH, ENGLAND -- The Pentagon's recent decision to ground its entire fleet of Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets for the past few weeks will not impact the aircraft's flight test schedule or the Marine Corps F-35B variant's ability to reach initial operational capability next year, military and industry officials told InsideDefense.com here this week.