After an exhaustive assessment, BAE Systems (Submarine Solutions) has chosen iXSea MARINS inertial navigation systems for HMS Audacious, the fourth boat in the UK Royal Navy’s Astute-class, nuclear-powered attack submarine construction programme. HMS Audacious will be equipped with two MARINS units.
Russian shipyard Sevmash will begin sea trials for the three new generation nuclear powered submarine, which are under construction at the s… (brahmand) [mappress] Source: brahmand ,March 09, 2011;
Lockheed Martin Sippican has won a $50 million Navy contract to build upgrade kits for the nation’s arsenal of MK-48 heavy torpedoes, the co… (southcoasttoday) [mappress] Source: southcoasttoday, March 9, 2011;
In an embarrassing goof-up, an advertisement issued by the Pakistan navy on Tuesday for a multinational exercise prominently featured images of Indian Navy warships even though India is not among the participating countries. The full-page advertisement for the Aman-11 exercise in the Arabian Sea, wh
A CALL for the Chief of Navy to be sacked over the sad state of Australia’s amphibious ships shows how the Government has failed to protect him from ‘‘ignorant scapegoating’’, the Australian Defence Association says. Association executive director Neil James said the sacking call was misplaced. He h
Richard A. Morin, of Amherst, a retired Navy chief, corpsman, diver and University at Buffalo researcher, died Friday in Millard Fillmore Hospital. He was 90. Born in East Wakefield, N.H., Mr. Morin served as a Navy hospital corpsman prior to World War II. During World War II, he was a ship salvage
Moving a Norfolk-based aircraft carrier to Mayport, Fla., could cost less than half of what the Navy estimated it would, according to a federal report. The U.S. Government Accountability Office estimates the cost of moving a carrier to be between $258.7 million and $356 million. The Navy previously
Raytheon BBN Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company , has earned a National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA) 2010 award for its modeling and simulation support for U.S. Navy training. The NTSA Team Award for Outstanding Achievement in Modeling and Simulation for Traini
Japan protested Tuesday after a Chinese helicopter the previous day staged a close fly-by of one of its destroyers near gas fields in the Ea… (mysinchew) [mappress] Source: mysinchew, March 8, 2011;
Griffon Hoverwork has designed a brand new craft, the 2450TD, with significant design input from the Swedish Coastguard. The 2450TD is based on the popular 2400TD design but, as the Coastguard wanted to transport their snowmobiles, the dimensions and payload of the craft were increased. The Swedish
The Navy says two sailors are dead and a third injured after a 7-ton water truck rolled over during a joint Navy-Marine Corps training exerc… (fresnobee) [mappress] Source: fresnobee, March 8, 2011;
The US Navy has successfully test-fired an unarmed Trident II D5 missile from the Ohio-class fleet ballistic-missile submarine USS Nevada… (brahmand) [mappress] Source: brahmand, March 8, 2011;
Deep beneath the ocean, in waters west of Rottnest Island, lies a treasure trove of scuttled ships, military vehicles and abandoned aircraft. For nearly 50 years the deepwater graveyard has remained mostly forgotten but new technology is helping to reveal its booty. The first clues to the graveyard
The Royal Navy amphibious landing ship HMS Bulwark has returned to the Royal Navy’s operational fleet and is ready for any tasking worldwide. The ship has emerged on time and budget from an 11-month upgrade and maintenance period by Babcock in its base port of HM Naval Base Devonport, Plymouth. The
