The Navy and Lockheed Martin recently tested an airborne-relay sensor and networking technology that allows ships to locate and destroy threats and targets that would otherwise be beyond the radar horizon, service and industry officials said. Called the Naval Integrated Fire Control – Counter Air, or NIFC-CA, the August test involved the firing of a […]
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The U.S. Navy is preparing for the first test flight later this month of its upgraded MQ-8C Fire Scout Unmanned Aircraft System, a helicopter-like, vertical-take-off-and-landing maritime drone engineered to perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, service officials said. The MQ-8C Fire Scout, slated to fly out of Point Mugu, Naval Base Ventura County, Calif., is […]
The U.S. Navy is pursuing a massive, fleet-wide upgrade of its shipboard defensive weapon designed to intercept and destroy approaching or nearby threats, the Phalanx Close in Weapons System, service officials said. The Phalanx, or CIWS, is an area weapon engineered to use a high rate of fire and ammunition to blanket a given area, […]
Navy officials told lawmakers recently that they are working on a permanent fix for the faulty generators aboard its newest combat ship. Overheating generators became a high-profile headache for the Navy when the problem forced the USS Freedom to break off from an international exercise July 20 and return to base in Singapore for repairs. […]
The Navy has awarded BAE Systems a contract to develop a next-generation launcher with higher rates of fire for its now-in-development Electromagnetic Railgun, service and industry officials explained. The Office of Navy Research is currently developing an EM Railgun which uses massive “pulses” of electricity to propel a projectile or an explosive at distances greater […]
