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Australian MQ-28 now also for the U.S. Navy

Australian MQ-28 now also for the U.S. Navy

Gepostet von | 14 Jul 2025 | , , | 0

The MQ-28 Ghost Bat, developed by Boeing Defence Australia in the state of Queensland, is an unmanned combat aircraft (UCAV) that was created in close collaboration with the Australian Air Force. The drone is designed for autonomous use and is intended to operate as a so-called "Loyal Wingman" together with manned fighter jets in the future. Following successful flight tests in 2023 - including in the USA - the US Navy has now also expressed interest in the MQ-28 alongside the US Air Force. In the future, the stealth drone could even be deployed from aircraft carriers. The centrepiece of the Ghost Bat is a specially developed, AI-supported control system that is fully...

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Argentina - Falklands veteran sunk

Argentina - Falklands veteran sunk

Gepostet von | 10 Jul 2025 | , , | 0

What British missiles failed to do in the Falklands War, their own navy has now done: the "Alférez Sobral" has been sunk. What the Royal Navy failed to achieve in the Falklands War by firing missiles, artillery hits during an Argentine navy exercise at the end of May have now done: The final sinking of the guard ship "Alférez Sobral". At the beginning of May 1982, the former US Navy ship was travelling north of the Falklands Sound to search for the pilots of a downed Argentine Canberra (a British-built light bomber). It was attacked by a British helicopter with short-range missiles. Eight crew members, including the commander, were killed. The destroyed bridge tower of the ship stands today as a...

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USA Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield surprisingly dismissed

USA Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield surprisingly dismissed

Gepostet von | 1 Jul 2025 | , , | 0

Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, U.S. Military Representative (USMILREP) on the NATO Military Committee, was also fired without notice in April. The Military Committee is the body that advises NATO's highest-ranking military officers from across the alliance and draws up strategic guidelines. Chatfield, a trained helicopter pilot and successful graduate of Boston, Harvard and San Diego, was the first female president of the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, before taking office in Brussels. There, she came to the attention of a few conservative opinion makers for her "over-the-top" commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) issues. Their letter of complaint to the Secretary of Defence was probably most welcome and led via his...

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LCS of the US Navy as "migrant hunters" - find lots of coke

LCS of the US Navy as "migrant hunters" - find lots of coke

Gepostet von | 30 Jun 2025 | , , | 0

The US Navy finally seems to have found an operational niche for the unloved LCS (Littoral Combat Ships) of the Freedom and Independence class: The hunt for drug smugglers in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific. Although expensive and difficult to maintain, the LCSs have the advantage of high manoeuvrability and high speeds of 40 to 50 knots thanks to their water jet propulsion. Banished to the Caribbean by presidential order - not to mention the unnamed Gulf of Mexico - and deployed there to support the Coast Guard in securing the national borders against migration, the "Minneapolis-Saint Paul" has been used as a...

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USA - Airlaunch of a hypersonic weapon

USA - Airlaunch of a hypersonic weapon

Gepostet von | 27 Jun 2025 | , , | 0

At the NAWCWD (Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, Naval Air Weapon Station China Lake, California), the BQM-34 Firebee jet-powered subsonic target presentation drone was successfully used for the first time at the beginning of May as a carrier and simultaneously as a fire control launch platform for the air launch of a solid-fuel ramjet (hypersonic) missile as a demonstrator. Both the Firebee, a development from the 1950s, and the solid fuel used for propulsion in the SFIRR (solid fuel integral rocket ram jet) are not new. However, when paired with the latest technologies, various application possibilities are now opening up. The solid fuel, which is much easier to handle than liquid propellants, is also lighter and significantly favours the parameters of the weapon - at higher speeds, with a higher...

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