BAE Systems has been awarded a $76 million contract modification to produce additional Vertical Launch System (VLS) canisters for the US Navy. The Vertical Launch System canisters play a critical role for storing, transporting, and firing a range of offensive and defensive missiles from the deck of the Navy’s guided-missile cruisers ...
The Royal Navy and RAF have transported coronavirus vaccines to the Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha – the most remote inhabited island in the world. For the first time, the Royal Navy assisted the RAF and Strategic Command in a 6-day operation this month to the isolated South Atlantic island community. An RAF Voyager aircraft ...
The US Navy’s Shipboard Air Traffic Radar program in Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) has awarded an LRIP option for three Saab AN/SPN-50(V)1 radar systems. The order value for the LRIP phase two contract is USD 37.1 million, with the first delivery scheduled for 2022. Radar manufacturing, delivery, test, and integration ...
GE Marine’s LM2500 gas turbines now power the United States Navy’s new Littoral Combat Ship USS OAKLAND (LCS 24), which was recently commissioned into the US Navy fleet. The ship’s powerful LM2500 gas turbines are Made in America at GE’s Evendale manufacturing facility, just north of Cincinnati, Ohio. The commissioning for the Independence-class ...
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