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American Shield AI Rolls Out First X-BAT Prototype of Its Vertical-Takeoff Jet Combat Drone
Shield AI has completed X-BAT 001, the first full-scale prototype of its tail-sitting jet combat drone, and moved it to Kansas for…
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US Navy’s First Flight II Amphibious Ship Harrisburg LPD 30 Clears Builder’s Trials With SPY-6 Radar
HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding has completed builder’s sea trials for Harrisburg (LPD 30), the first Flight II San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, testing…
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American L3Harris Hunterwater Unmanned Surface Vehicle Hunts and Destroys Mines Without Sailors
L3Harris has detailed Hunterwater, a fielded unmanned surface vehicle that searches for, identifies and destroys naval mines on its own, pairing a…
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US Navy Awards General Dynamics $15 Million to Advance MEDUSA UUV That Lays Mines From Submarines
General Dynamics Mission Systems has won a $15 million option exercise on MEDUSA, the Navy’s expendable, torpedo-tube-launched mine-laying UUV, its second in…
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GE Aerospace Wins LM2500 Gas Turbine Orders to Power Two More US Navy Arleigh Burke Destroyers
GE Aerospace will supply eight LM2500 marine gas turbines for two more Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, extending its role as sole…
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US Navy CNO Caudle Inspects Blackbeard Hypersonic Missile as 444 Rounds Head to Carrier Jets
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle visited NAS Patuxent River on October 28, tying its test work to fleet readiness, backing…
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US Navy’s Ex-Enterprise CVN 65, World’s First Nuclear Carrier, Begins Final Voyage to Be Dismantled
The world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier left Newport News under tow on November 2, 2026, bound for Mobile, Alabama, where NorthStar will…
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US Navy’s $4.47B Pearl Harbor Submarine Dry Dock Takes Shape as Norfolk Opens $134M Refueling Complex
Norfolk Naval Shipyard has completed a $134 million complex to refuel, defuel and inactivate Ohio- and Virginia-class submarines, while Pearl Harbor’s Dry…
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US Navy Receives 1,000th ESSM Block 2 Naval Air Defense Missile as Deliveries Double in 16 Months
The US Navy has received the 1,000th ESSM Block 2 for the 12-nation NATO SEASPARROW Consortium, with the last 500 arriving in…
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US Navy Awards French Thales $53.9M for Remote Mine Hunting Modules to Keep Crews Out of Minefields
Thales subsidiary Advanced Acoustic Concepts will deliver two Remote Mine Hunting modules to the U.S. Navy under a $53.9 million contract, pairing…