Monthly Archives: January 2023

 By: Heather Mongilio January 6, 2023 5:03 PM • Updated: January 8, 2023 9:15 PM A RIM-7P NATO Sea Sparrow Missile launches the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) during an exercise in 2007. US Navy Photo The United States will send RIM-7 Sea Sparrows anti-air missiles to Ukraine as part of Washington’s latest military aid package. DeputyContinue reading “U.S. Sending Ukraine Sea Sparrow Missiles in Latest Aid Package”

  Artist’s rendering of a US Navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyer. Credit: Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division has received a contract for modernisation period planning of the US Navy’s first two Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyers. The estimated value of this cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is approximately $10.5m. According to a US Department of Defense (DoD) announcement, the advancedContinue reading “HII wins award for DDG 1000 and 1001 modernisation period planning Work under the new $10.5m contract is expected to complete by December this year.”

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  Landing Helicopter Dock HMAS Adelaide was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy’s fleet today at Garden Island, Sydney. General Sir Peter Cosgrove, Governor-General of Australia, presided over the ceremony. Minister for Defence Marise Payne and Chief of Navy Vice Admiral Tim Barrett also attended the traditional ceremony held in Adelaide’s hangar deck. About 1000 guests, made up of crew families, asContinue reading “HMAS Adelaide was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy”

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