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The People’s Liberation Army Naval Air Force’s J-10AH fighters have been shown capable of employing the LS500J 500kg laser guided bomb. The precision guided weapon is employed together with the K/JDC01 targeting pod mounted below the right intake.
A U.S. Navy Super Hornet has successfully employed two inert Dual Mode Plus laser guided bombs (LGB) during testing at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in China Lake, California.
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Photo: Lockheed Martin
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An executive with KRET told Jane’s that the naval version of the KA-52 will employ a compact active electronically scanned array (AESA) from the company.
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Автор Anna Zvereva from Tallinn, Estonia (Russian Navy, Kamov, Ka-52K) [CC BY-SA 2.0], undefined
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New details on the investigations into Lt. Cmdr. Edward Lin have been obtained by Navy Times and court filings say Taiwan wanted test results of submarine-launched torpedo from the EP-3 naval flight officer.
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Photo: U.S. Navy
A maneuver to place a spare satellite for the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System into a circular orbit went wrong on Jun. 29 and it left the MUOS-5 satellite in an “intermediate” orbit.
By US Navy [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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