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US Navy’s $114.7M H-1 SPINE Upgrade Readies Marine AH-1Z and UH-1Y Helicopters for Long-Range Weapons
The Navy has exercised a $114.7 million option on Bell Textron’s H-1 SPINE upgrade, funding 15 A-kits, four mission kits and nine…
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Korean-Owned Hanwha Defense USA to Build Its First US Navy Medium Landing Ship for Pacific Marines
Hanwha Philly Shipyard will build one Landing Ship Medium for the US Navy and Marine Corps under a $269 million TOTE Services…
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US Navy Seeks Digital Stability Augmentation to Keep 1970s-Era F-5 Jets Out of Inverted Dives
NAVAIR wants industry to adapt the American Systems AS2100 flight computer into a digital stability augmentation system and autopilot for the F-5N/F…
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Norwegian Kongsberg Order Backlog Hits Record $18.1 Billion as Belgium Orders NASAMS Air Defense
Kongsberg ended Q3 2026 with a record NOK 174.2 billion order backlog after NOK 23.3 billion in new orders, anchored by Belgium’s…
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USS San Antonio Returns to NYC for Veterans Day After Venezuela Quake Relief and Drug Interdiction
USS San Antonio (LPD 17) arrives in Manhattan on November 9 for Veterans Day events, weeks after two back-to-back deployments that took…
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US Marines Test Neros Archer Strike FPV Drones in First Anti-Armor Ambush Drill at Camp Fuji
Marines from the 31st MEU flew Neros Archer Strike one-way attack drones at Camp Fuji, Japan, for the first time on October…
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US Navy Assault Ship USS Makin Island Arrives in Japan With Marines, Weeks From the Iran War Zone
The Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group and 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit have reached Yokosuka, Japan, for maintenance and resupply, four weeks after…
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F-35 Navigation Systems Get $114.6M Lockheed Martin Redesign as GPS and INS Parts Go Obsolete
Naval Air Systems Command has ordered Lockheed Martin to redesign the F-35’s GPS Electronic Unit and NAV100 inertial navigation system as key…
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US Typhoon USV Drone Boat Demonstrates Naval Interception in Japan at Keen Sword 27
A Splash Industries Typhoon USV demonstrated naval interception at MCAS Iwakuni on October 21 during Keen Sword 27. The operating unit, the…
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Keen Sword 27: Japan and US Rehearse Island Defense Near Taiwan With 56,000 Troops
Keen Sword 27 opened on Ishigaki Island on October 19 with about 45,000 Japanese and 11,000 U.S. personnel plus seven partner nations,…