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Canadian drone being tested to hunt submarines

Posted on April 24, 2015April 24, 2015 by alert5

The Canadian military is interested to try out the TD100 from Brican Automated Systems to hunt for submarines or mines.


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Video of the first X-47B autonomous mid-air refueling

Posted on April 24, 2015 by alert5

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Vice Adm. Nora W. Tyson to command U.S. Navy’s Third Fleet

Posted on April 23, 2015April 23, 2015 by alert5

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has nominated Vice Adm. Nora W. Tyson to take command of the U.S. Navy’s Third Fleet.

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Viet Cong commando recalls his mission that sank an American aircraft carrier

Posted on April 23, 2015 by alert5

Former Viet Cong frogman Lam Son Nao recalls his mission on the night of May 2, 1964 that sank former escort carrier USNS Card in the port of Saigon.

USS Card (CVE-11)
By Kralizec! at en.wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons

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Photos of the first ever Autonomous Aerial Refueling by an unmanned aircraft

Posted on April 23, 2015April 23, 2015 by alert5

The X-47B successfully completes the first autonomous aerial refueling demonstration over the Chesapeake bay on Apr. 22.

US Navy's X-47B, AV-2, Bureau # 168064, of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Two Three (VX-23), conduct Air-to-Air Refueling (AAR) over the Chesapeake Bay on 16 April 2015.  VX-23 is part of the Naval Test Wing Atlantic in Naval Air Station Patuxent River,
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Posted in Navy, Research, UAV

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