USS John Paul Jones conducted a series of five live-fire tests from Jun. 18-20. One of the tests resulted in the longest surface-to-air engagement in naval history.
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Category: Navy
PLAN recruiting high school grads to be carrier pilots
For the first time, the People’s Liberation Army Navy is recruiting high school graduates to become aircraft carrier pilots.
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Four F-35Bs arrived at Pax River ahead of transatlantic flight
The U.S. Marine Corps has resumed flights of its F-35Bs with four arriving in NAS Patuxent River from NAS Yuma.
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U.S. Navy tests radar-absorbing, carbon-fiber clouds for anti-ship missile defense
The U.S. Navy is testing a shipboard device that generates a radar-absorbing, carbon-fiber cloud to defeat anti-ship missiles.
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Raytheon to add infrared marker on ATFLIR
Raytheon has been given a $14 million contract to add an infrared marker into the existing Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) pods.
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