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An F-35A has completed the JSF’s first aerial weapons release of an AIM-120 from its internal weapons bay. AF-1 jettisoned the instrumented AIM-120 over the China Lake test range on Oct. 19.
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Raytheon has been awarded a $45.3 million U.S. Navy contract to provide the MK 54 lightweight torpedo to the Royal Australian Navy and the Indian Navy.
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Rear Admiral Walter E. “Ted” Carter, Jr., commander of the Enterprise carrier strike group, flew in the back seat of a Super Hornet for the last night landing for USS Enterprise on Oct. 15.
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The Pentagon’s director of operational testing told the U.S. Navy that the AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile “is not operationally effective.”
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The U.S. Navy will christen the amphibious assault ship, America (LHA 6), Oct. 20, during a 10 a.m. CDT ceremony in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
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