Category: Navy

A AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) successfully hit a Mobile Ship Target during Block 1 upgrade test firings at the Point Mugu Sea Range on Aug. 18.

Photo: Orbital ATK
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The French President’s Office has announced the sale of two Mistral helicopter carriers to Egypt.

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The widows of two U.S. Navy MH-60S pilots who were killed when their helicopter was swept overboard by strong waves has filed a suit against the U.S. Navy, asking the court to declare the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer as unsafe.

By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nathan Burke [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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A high-level delegation from Egypt is in Paris to discuss the purchase of Mistral helicopter carriers and two Gowind-class corvettes.

By Ludovic Péron (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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A new research by RAND concluded that “China has rapidly improved its ability to reliably locate and to attack U.S. carrier-strike groups at distances of up to 2,000 km from its coast.”

By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Kenneth R. Hendrix/Released (http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=69601) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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