Royal Navy Expands Puma Drone Fleet
The sailors at Royal Navy 700X Naval Air Squadron took delivery of the latest Puma remotely-piloted systems and can now immediately deploy flights from any ship in the fleet
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The sailors at Royal Navy 700X Naval Air Squadron took delivery of the latest Puma remotely-piloted systems and can now immediately deploy flights from any ship in the fleet
This is the first of five P-8 aircraft ordered by Norway and the 142nd delivered to customers worldwide for anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations
The latest speed trials showed that the HMS Cutlass patrol craft is meeting and surpassing the speed requirements specified by the Royal Navy
Sonardyne and Wavefront’s Vigilant navigation and obstacle avoidance sonar provides automated long-range detection of objects in the water column
Elbit Systems UK will provide maritime Electronic Warfare (EW) suites to enhance the situational awareness and anti-ship missile defense of front-line platforms and improve their capability to exploit the electromagnetic environment
BAE Systems 57mm Mk 110 naval guns are multi-mission, medium-caliber shipboard weapons capable of firing up to 220 rounds per minute at air, surface or ground threats
Austal USA will use the 15-acre site to focus on ship repair for U.S. Navy, Military Sealift Command, and U.S. Coast Guard ships
QinetiQ’s Banshee UAS can operate at 25,000ft, or just above the waterline, and fly at speeds of up to 400 knots, delivering a realistic adversary to train against
In addition to external communications, Rohde & Schwarz’s NAVICS provides onboard communications and ensures a multilevel security architecture that allows secure communications
SAIC will compete with selected vendors to provide research and development, engineering, integration, testing, cybersecurity, upgrades and sustainment for tactical threat systems to improve Navy aircrew effectiveness
Austal Australia handed over the 13th Guardian-class Patrol Boat (GCPB) to the Australian Department of Defense for delivery to the Papua New Guinea Defense Force
The Department of the Navy has extended its contract with Fluor Marine Propulsion for naval nuclear propulsion work at Navy Nuclear Laboratory sites across the U.S.