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U.S. Navy engineers fired missile at KC-46 test article

Posted on June 9, 2015June 9, 2015 by alert5

As part of the KC-46 development program, the aerial tanker had to be subjected to a series of weapons survivability test. The U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division’s Weapons Survivability Laboratory was tasked with the assignment.

Photo: U.S. Navy
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Video of surface-launched Sky Sword II

Posted on June 9, 2015June 8, 2015 by alert5

Taiwan’s Chung-Shan Institute of Science & Technology has released a video of the surface-launched version of the Sky Sword II radar guided air-to-air missile.

Photos: CSIST

First flight test of SM-3 Block IIA

Posted on June 8, 2015June 8, 2015 by alert5

The U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has conducted the first flight test of the SM-3 Block IIA interceptor.

Photo: Missile Defense Agency
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Store separation testing of LRASM for F/A-18E/F conducted in AEDC transonic wind tunnel

Posted on June 6, 2015 by alert5

Store separation testing of the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet was recently conducted in the 16-foot transonic wind tunnel (16T) at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex.

Photo: Lockheed Martin

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U.S. without an aircraft carrier in Middle East this fall

Posted on June 6, 2015June 6, 2015 by alert5

For the first time since the start of Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S. Navy will not have an aircraft carrier stationed in the Middle East for at least one to two months.

By U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate Airman Todd M. Flint. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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