Aviation News
Admiral Kuznetsov has left Severomorsk on Sept. 19 and will take part in five-day naval exercises in the Barents Sea from Saturday until Sept. 25.
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Royal Navy Lieutenant Alan Wootton landed his MV-22 on HMS Illustrious four times when the British carrier passed the USS Kearsarge on Sept. 20 in the Red Sea.
Continue reading “Royal Navy pilot lands MV-22 on HMS Illustrious”
U.S. Reps. Randy Forbes and Mike McIntyre, the chairman and ranking members of the House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee, have wrote a letter to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus urging him not to turn UCLASS into a counter-terrorism tool.
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USS Lake Erie successfully engaged a complex separating short-range ballistic missile target over the Pacific Ocean on Sept. 18.
Continue reading “SM-3 Block IB successful intercept of most complex target to date”
Visiting U.S. deputy secretary of defense Ashton Carter told his Indian counterparts that the U.S. is willing to share the Electro Magnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) technology under the Defense Technology Initiative.
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