Aviation News
A test of the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) was carried out again on Feb. 4. The objectives of this test is to verify the missile’s ability to avoid obstacles and verify its low-altitude performance.
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A MH-60S Seahawk helicopter attached to HSC-8 fires a AGM-114B Hellfire missile during a live fire exercise in San Clemente, California, on Feb. 4.
The Indian Navy’s guided-missile destroyer INS Kolkata will be installed with the Barak 8 air defense missile system within a few months, NDTV reported.
Continue reading “Indian warships to get Barak 8 soon”
North Korea has test-fired a new anti-ship cruise missile. The missile is designated as KN-09 and is believed to be a copy of the Russian Kh-35E.
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(Updated with photo) The U.S. Navy has shown that the current Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile can engage moving maritime targets using the existing Tomahawk Strike Network communications infrastructure.
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Continue reading “USN demonstrates Tomahawk maritime strike capability using existing infrastructure”
