The US Fifth Fleet in the Middle East is implementing maritime drone exercises, testing new operational solutions. Last month the success of a small unmanned vessel when it managed to launch a missile at a pre-defined target caused great satisfaction. According to a statement from the US Navy (USNavy), writes Defense [...]
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by Massimiliano D'Elia Yesterday was a difficult day in a Middle East, increasingly in flames, where with each passing hour the situation seems to fall inexorably towards a global conflict between the West and the Muslim world. The voltage indicators are diverse and dramatic. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's mission to Jordan, where he met [...]
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The United States is strengthening its presence in the Middle East to prevent the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas from spreading and to dissuade Iran from getting involved. The latest and most modern US aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford - the largest in the world - is already located in the eastern Mediterranean [...]
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Two prototype US drone ships (USVs), writes the WSJ, have arrived in Japan for their first deployment in the Western Pacific. They will be tested in surveillance activities and in simulated offensive exercises. The implementation of new weapon systems in the region is due to Chinese military activity which in recent years has surpassed the Navy [...]
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Leonardo delivered the first TH-73A training helicopter to the US Navy yesterday during an official ceremony at its Philadelphia plant in the USA. The event was attended by Vice Admiral Kenneth Whitesell, Commander of the US Air Forces as well as the US Pacific Forces, Rear Admiral Gregory Harris, Director of the [...]
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The United States Navy has decided to remove the touchscreen controls from the destroyers, returning them to a mechanical steering system. The decision, which will concern both the on-board controls and the rudder, was made following two accidents caused by warships, which would have become too difficult to maneuver for [...]
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Boeing has won the contract from the US-Navy to build the MQ-25 drone, a major victory for a company that has struggled to win awards in the field of fighter aircraft in recent years, thus marking an important step towards a new type of air carrier. Navy James Geurts, Undersecretary to the US Navy, said that [...]
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A US Navy fighter jet crashed off the coast of Key West, Florida yesterday. The two crew members, despite having managed to eject themselves before the crash of the aircraft on the surface of the sea, both died. The flight accident happened at 16.30 local time, when the Super Hornet F / A-18, [...]
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An unarmed Iranian drone reached a distance of just 31 meters from a US Navy F-18 fighter landing on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, a US military official reported to US media. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, stated that, despite repeated warnings via radio [...]
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