Category: Navy

IAI Elta Systems has proposed a maritime patrol aircraft based on the Bombardier Q400. The aircraft will be designated EL/I-3360.

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A detachment from VP-16 was in Singapore from Jan. 29 to Feb. 2 to train with the submariners from the Singapore Navy.

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Iranian patrol boats and aircraft shadowed USS Abraham Lincoln and the carrier’s escorts as it transited the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.

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The plan to move an aircraft carrier from Norfolk to Florida will not be carried out as the defense budget for fiscal 2013 does not include money for construction to support a carrier at Mayport.
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The U.S. Navy has allocated $811 million to cover projected cost overruns on aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford.

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