Chairman of the U.S. House seapower subcommittee has written to Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Ray Odierno, asking the latter to consider building a land-based Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) capability to counter the Chinese.
Category: Navy
USS America commissioned
USS America (LHA 6) was commissioned during a formal ceremony at Pier 30/32 during San Francisco Fleet Week, Oct. 11.
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NSF Deveselu established in Romania
The Aegis Ashore facility in Romania has been commissioned as Naval Support Facility (NSF) Deveselu on Oct. 10.
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Dassault handed over first Rafale M F1 retrofitted to F3 standard
The first of ten Rafale M F1 fighters that was been retrofitted to the newer F3 standard has been handed over to French defense procurement agency (DGA) on Oct. 3.
Meet USN’s equivalent of Skunk Works: AIRWorks
The U.S. Navy now has an advance projects group modeled on Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works and Boeing’s Phantom Works.
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