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Watch a SM-2 missile bouncing off the sea to hit a sea skimming target

Posted on July 21, 2020July 21, 2020 by alert5

USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) fired a SM-2 missile during a Live Fire With a Purpose (LFWAP) enhanced missile exercise on Jul. 16.

Blue Angels refueled by KC-46 for the first time

Posted on July 18, 2020 by alert5

A KC-46 Pegasus assigned to the 931st Air Refueling Wing, McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., lines up to refuel an U.S. Navy Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet, July 1, 2020 over South Dakota. This marks the first time the 931st ARW refueled the Blue Angels using a KC-46. The KC-46 represents the beginning of a new era in air-to-air refueling capability to support the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. The modernized fly-by-wire boom provides a larger air-refueling envelope than the KC-46’s predecessor, the KC-135 Stratotanker. In addition to the boom, the aircraft is capable of refueling through drogue and wing aerial fueling pods, or WARPs, to provide simultaneous multi-point air refueling. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Andrea Morris)

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Royal Netherlands Navy orders 8 radars from Thales

Posted on July 18, 2020July 17, 2020 by alert5

The Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) has ordered one NS100 radar and seven Scout Mk3 radars for its warships, Thales has announced.

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USN intends to use the MQ-8C’s AN/ZPY-8 Osprey radar to provide OTH targeting for Naval Strike Missile

Posted on July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 by alert5

The U.S. Navy’s UX-24 squadron is preparing to start testing of the Leonardo AN/ZPY-8 Osprey radar on the MQ-8C unmanned helicopter.

Photo: U.S. Navy

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Nimitz, Ronald Reagan dual carrier ops in South China Sea is still ongoing

Posted on July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 by alert5

The U.S. Navy says the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group and Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Groups dual carrier operations in the South China Sea is still ongoing.

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