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Raytheon to build additional SPY-6 radars for US Navy

Maritime January 3, 2020

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 ...

HMS SCOTT supporting search for missing C130 aircraft

Maritime December 17, 2019

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 train with new board and search guidelines

Maritime December 10, 2019

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 ...

Royal Navy participates in task group to close Westlant 19

Maritime December 9, 2019

HMS Queen Elizabeth took part in a task group exercise ahead of coming home after Westlant 19. HMS Queen Elizabeth took part in a final task to mark the end of Westlant 19. The NATO exercise began in September with Canadian-lead exercise Cutlass Fury and the Queen Elizabeth worked alongside the ...