Northrop Grumman’s AQS-24 mine hunting sonar recently completed initial in-water testing of a next-generation Deploy and Retrieval (D&R) payload. Operated from the Mine Countermeasures Unmanned Surface Vessel (MCM USV), the AQS-24 D&R demonstrated the unmanned operations needed to perform a mine hunting mission off the MCM Mission Package aboard the littoral ...
Raytheon is to build an two additional shipsets of SPY-6 radars under a $250 million contract with the US Navy. The company is now contracted to deliver a total of nine radar shipsets to DDG-51 Flight III destroyers. SPY-6 is a family of next generation, integrated air and missile defence radars that ...
Royal Navy vessel HMS SCOTT has arrived in the search area, to provide support to the Chilean military in their response to the loss of a C130 that went missing earlier in the week in the Southern Atlantic Ocean. British Forces’ South Atlantic Islands, based in the Falklands Islands, have provided ...
Royal Marines from the Juliet Company trained with new board and search structures under the Future Commando Force programme. The Juliet Company, 42 Commando, are specialists in board and search operations and have undergone new training under revised structures. The company is behind a number of anti-piracy deployments and drug operations. The ...