Vice Adm. Robert Empedrad from the Philippine Navy is leading a team in the United Kingdom for pre-delivery inspection of the two AW159s the South East Asia nation has ordered.
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Category: Navy
Trump nominates former P-3 pilot as next U.S. Navy chief
Adm. William Francis Moran, who started his career in the U.S. Navy as a P-3 pilot, has been nominated by the Trump administration to be the next chief of naval operations.
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Pentagon’s contract for 24 E-2Ds includes option for 9 FMS aircraft
The U.S. Department of Defense has given Northrop Grumman a $3.169 billion multi-year fixed-price-incentive-firm contract for 24 E-2D early warning aircraft. The aerospace company said in its press release that the contract includes “an option for nine additional foreign military sales aircraft.”
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THAAD being deployed to Romania as Aegis Ashore system there getting upgraded
NATO has announced that the Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense system in Romania is getting upgrades and will be offline during the process. A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system will be deployed to Deveselu Base as a stopgap measure.
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Boeing to supply 8 Wideband Satellite Communication kits for P-8A
Boeing has been awarded a $93 million contract to supply eight Wideband Satellite Communication kits for installation on the P-8A.
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