North Korea has shown the video of its successful test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on Dec. 21.
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Category: Navy
USN releases video showing IRGC boat firing rockets near USS Harry S. Truman
The U.S. Navy has given Military Times the video of an incident whereby a Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps boat fired rockets near aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman.
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F-35’s ejection seat unlikely to be fixed before 2018
The U.S. Air Force has been forced to push back the lifting of weight restrictions on F-35 pilots until 2018.
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Looming carrier gap will see both 5th and 7th Fleet sharing one carrier this spring
Sometime this spring, the U.S. Navy will have to settle with just one carrier strike group in either the Pacific or Middle East as another carrier gap looms.
By U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Kevin Eichelberger [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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NAWCWD rebuilt BQM-34-41s into -55s with help from Northrop Grumman
The U.S. Navy is running low of BQM-74s so it decided to bring 20 BQM-34-41 models out of mothball. So instead of sending them to Northrop Grumman for upgrade to the BQM-34-55 model, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division paid the contractor to learn how to do it themselves.
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U.S. Navy photo
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