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Navy contracts for DDG 113 lead materials
Pascagoula :: MS :: USA | 2 days ago
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Northrop Grumman has received a follow-on contract to continue its support for the U.S...U.S. company Northrop Grumman announced the contract from the Navy to provide long lead materials for the DDG 51 program to support the construction of the DDG 113...
Tags: Northrop Grumman Corp., U.S. Navy, DDG, US Navy, Pascagoula, Grumman, Northrop, Open Travel Alliance, Northrop Grumman, Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Pascagoula Mississippi, Business Finance, Shipyard
British Navy leads the way as Iraqi sailors learn to safeguard nation’s oil trade
Umm Qaşr :: Iraq | 2 days ago
Credibility Ahead was a large cargo ship bearing a Panamanian flag, but with the name of a North Korean port painted on its hull. Captain Jamie McMichael-Phillips gave the order to make radio contact. When there was no reply, he suggested that the patrol boat should...
Tags: Iraqi Navy, Iran-Iraq, Royal Navy, Jamie McMichael-Phillips, US Navy, British, naval trainer, patrolling boat, Iraq, Umm Qaşr
Letters to the Home Front from World War II Navy
US History is full of “firsts” and “onlys.” For example, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, the only peacetime conscription in US History, required that all men ages 21 to 30 register with local draft boards. By...
Tags: World War II, home front, US Navy, naval history, men ages, Newark, Louis Falzarano, Clement, Jenny, Maria, world war
Navy's hunt for new carrier-operated fighters begins
New Delhi :: India | 6 days ago
Credibility Though the RFI is of a 'generic' nature, it could ultimately lead to a tender (or Request for Proposal), and the initial requirement would be for 16 aircraft with provision for follow-up orders of up to 40 aircrafts, sources said. The deck-based aircrafts...
Tags: US Navy, Indian Air Force, aircrafts carrier, India, New Delhi, Mikoyan MiG-29K, HAL Tejas, Aircraft carrier, Indian MRCA competition, Carrier-based aircraft, Vikrant class aircraft carrier, Jet aircraft
Navy-Trained Sea Lions Ready to Arrest Enemy Divers [Navy Sea Lions]
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Dolphins aren't the only aquatic mammals fighting human battles. The US Navy has long been training sea lions as equipment retrievers and underwater sentries. Now they plan to outfit a naval base with mine-sweeping, diver-trapping sea lions. Along with...
Tags: Navy Sea Lions, Navy-Trained Sea Lions Ready, US Navy, San Francisco, Bottlenose dolphin, Cetology, Oceanic dolphins, U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program, Cetaceans, Dolphin, Military animals, California Sea Lion
Americans call in menacing Aussie
Sydney :: Australia | 14 days ago
Credibility American flag, this compact, speedy warship has its origins right here in Australia. The high-speed, 418-foot Littoral Combat Ship was designed by the West Australian company Austal, a designer and manufacturer that has increasingly been supplying military...
Tags: Austal, US Navy, Australia, Sydney, Trimaran, High-speed craft, Ship, Austal USA, United States Navy high speed vessels, USS Independence, Littoral combat ship
Its Houston Naval Week 2009: Rear Admiral Mark Skinner Hosted By SACC
Houston :: TX :: USA | 15 days ago
Credibility Every year various cities in USA are chosen to organize during different quarters “The Navy Week”. Air Show; is being organized during the last week of October, i.e. between October 24th and November 01st, 2009. Why it is important - & - What opportunities...
Tags: Houston Navy Week, USA Navy, Navy Weeks, admirals mark, Mark Skinner, Navy Band, rear admirals, US Navy, Saudi Arabian Navy, Crew of Navy, Houston
US Navy seizes four tons of drugs in Gulf of Aden
Manama :: Bahrain | about 1 month ago
Credibility An American warship on anti-piracy patrol has seized four tons (3,600 kilos) of hashish from a wooden boat in a part of the Gulf of Aden known as the "Hash Highway," the US Fifth Fleet said on Tuesday. It said the USS Anzio's seizure of the drugs with...
Tags: US Navy
Earthquake preparation pays off for Indonesian village
Padang :: Indonesia | about 1 month ago
Credibility International aid is flowing into quake-hit areas of Sumatra, Indonesia, as US troops join the effort to provide food, shelter, and medical care after last week's 7.6-magnitude earthquake. In the worst-hit city of Padang, around 100,000 houses were severely...
Tags: Indonesian, US Navy, navy ships, distribute aid, deadly earthquake
2 Lessons -- One Is Anti-Climatic and The Other Is Phenomenal -- Lessons From Typhoon Ondoy
I cheered when a radio commentator, during the rescue operations for the victims of typhoon Ondoy, boomed: “Let’s set aside politics for the moment! Let’s forget about blame and just focus on how we can help. But, ah, when...
Tags: ondoy, ketsana, flashfloods, tropical storm, typhoon, heroism, red cross, greenpeace, us navy
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