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Alors, je vous présente quelques portes avions USA :
USS Carl Vinson
USS Harry S Truman
USS Nimitz
USS Eisenhower
USS George H. W. Bush
USS Kity Hawk
USS Wasp
USS Tarawa
USS Saipan
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Sam 29 Oct 2011 - 20:17
Le meilleur est pour la fin 9 Ticonderoga et .... 3 Whidbey Island devront quitter le service d'ici 2014 les 3 unités devraient initiallement quitter le service vers la fin de cette décennie, un programme de modernisation était prévu pour les maintenir jusqu'à 2040 ..
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85,87 et 90,pas mal comme vie restante dommage pour les 9 Ticos si c´etait pas cher en tout cas l´austerité fait son entrée en jeux,et je sens que c´est que le debut
Je sens que la MRM peut faire des affaires dans cette histoire (du moins je l’espère)
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Lun 31 Oct 2011 - 10:51
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First sea trial goes according to plan for future USS Fort Worth
The future USS Fort Worth recently completed its first set of sea trials on Lake Michigan, the first time the fast-moving littoral combat ship went full power on the open water.
The $480 million ship, the first naval combatant ever named for Fort Worth and only the third in a new class of vessels, was christened in December at the Marinette Marine Corp. shipyards in northern Wisconsin. Since then, it has been undergoing further work and testing, almost all of it dockside until this month, when the ship began its first round of operational testing from lead contractor Lockheed Martin.
And according to one of two men who will take command of the ship next year, the sea trials went swimmingly.
"She drives like a dream," said Cmdr. Randy Blankenship, who will command one of two crews that will staff the ship. "Without disclosing her speed, it was the fastest I've ever gone on a Navy ship."
Speed is a major ingredient of the littoral combat ship, a much smaller class of warfighter designed after 9-11 for flexibility, agility and shallow water close to coasts. Navy officials have said the ship's 100,000 horsepower can move it in excess of 40 knots, significantly faster than destroyers.
Conceived by former Navy Secretary Gordon England and a former chief of naval operations, Adm. Vern Clark, littoral combat ships are a major departure from the custom of building a deep-water ship around a weapon system. Instead, littoral ships are designed for multiple missions with varying mission packages that can be moved on and off quickly.
The Navy has committed to buying 20 more of the ships through 2015 with an eye toward a total purchase of 55. Half of the first 20 are to be built by a Lockheed Martin team and half from a team led by General Dynamics. The ships are radically different designs, though.
The future USS Fort Worth -- it cannot be formally called that until it is recommissioned in September -- underwent a full series of tests this month in Green Bay, Wis., and Lake Michigan. All the mechanical, support, communications, radar and power systems were tested, including everything but live weapons fire, said Joe North, vice president of littoral ship systems for Lockheed Martin.
"It would be kind of like if someone built you a new race car and you take it out to see if everything is working the way it is supposed to," North said.
Other than minor issues involving a few failed parts, the tests showed that the ship is ready, North said. "The speeds we saw were better than what we anticipated." The USS Freedom, the first Lockheed Martin version, developed a crack in its hull on its first deployment, but officials said it was a welding problem, not a design flaw. The USS Independence, the first General Dynamics version of the littoral ship, has come under greater scrutiny by congressional critics because of significant corrosion problems with its hull. Blankenship described the testing as "aggressive" and "fun." "I'm very confident we're going to be sailing it on the Menominee River next spring," Blankenship said of the river that leads into Green Bay from the shipyards. The 389-foot-long ship will undergo another round of tests in late November and is scheduled to be transferred to Navy custody in February. Blankenship's crew will take the ship out the St. Lawrence River in June, head into the Atlantic Ocean and around to the Gulf of Mexico for the Sept. 22 commissioning in Galveston
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Mer 2 Nov 2011 - 19:14
US Navy in record breaking railgun
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The Office of Naval Research Electromagnetic Railgun located at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, fired a world-record setting 33 megajoule shot, breaking the previous record established January, 31, 2008.
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Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) hit a materials research milestone in the Office of Naval Research's (ONR) Electromagnetic Railgun program when they fired a laboratory-scale system for the 1,000th time Oct. 31.
"A significant amount of development has been coming out of NRL to support the program," said Roger Ellis, ONR's Electromagnetic Railgun (EMRG) program officer. "It's a key piece of making railgun successful." The EMRG is a long-range weapon that launches projectiles using electricity instead of chemical propellants. Under development by the Department of the Navy (DON) for use aboard ships, the system will provide Sailors with multi-mission capability, allowing them to conduct precise naval surface fire support, or land strikes; cruise missile and ballistic missile defense; and surface warfare to deter enemy vessels.
"The weapon does all its damage because of its speed," said Dr. Roger McGinnis, program executive for ONR's Naval Air Warfare and Weapons Department, which oversees EMRG. Launched at 2 to 2.5 kilometers per second (4,500 to 5,600 mph) without using explosives, the projectile reaches its target at speeds that require only a small charge similar to that found in automobile airbags to dispense its payload, eliminating the objective through the inherent kinetic energy. "EMRG will provide the Department of Defense with an advantage in future conflicts by giving troops the ability to fire weapons inexpensively against targets," McGinnis said.
As part of the EMRG development program, ONR and NRL co-funded scientists at NRL to build and operate a 6-meter long, 50 mm diameter railgun as a subscale experimental lab at the Materials Testing Facility (MTF). Researchers fired the first shot in March 2007. After improving the gun's sliding armature and rails, the lab has fired an average of 300 shots per year since 2008.
A railgun launches projectiles by generating magnetic fields created by high electrical currents that accelerate a sliding metal conductor, or armature, between two rails.
"The 1,000th shot is testing new ideas of how the armature interacts with the rails," said Dr. Robert Meger, head of NRL's charged particle physics branch, which conducts about 30 experiments annually on the railgun. Following each test firing, researchers dismantle the gun to examine all the components. They slice up the rails for further analysis under a microscope to reveal surface damage.
During the course of firing all 1,000 shots, NRL scientists have experimented with a variety of materials and geometries to determine which ones can withstand the metal-melting temperatures and pressures of shooting a 1.5-megajoule energy weapon. One megajoule of energy is equivalent to a 1-ton car traveling at 100 miles per hour.
"We've really explored a lot of territory," ONR's Ellis said. "When you couple what we're seeing in testing with what we're seeing in modeling and simulation, it results in some interesting barrel shapes that you wouldn't intuitively think about. Railgun barrels don't necessarily have to be round as in most conventional gun designs."
Since 2005, scientists have been working to increase the railgun's barrel life, muzzle energy and size. Ultimately, their work will help to produce a 64-megajoule railgun with a range of about 220 nautical miles.
"You really have to look at the course of our understanding from the first day they shot to the 1,000th shot today, and how much our understanding of the rail life has dramatically increased, and how much science we have applied to ensure that we're on the path toward a future fieldable system," Ellis said.
Materials science breakthroughs resulting from the test firings have given researchers confidence to transition new technologies to a scaled-up experimental launcher at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren,Va., which fired a world record setting 33-megajoule shot in December 2010.
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Ven 4 Nov 2011 - 12:17
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USS Mississippi to be commissioned June 2 in Gulfport
The $2 billion USS Mississippi submarine will be commissioned in Gulfport on June 2, U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo’s office confirmed today.
Palazzo’s office heard the news in a legislative meeting with the Navy today.
“It is wonderful news that Gulfport has been selected for the commissioning of the USS Mississippi,” Palazzo said. “My office has been working in coordination with (Navy) Secretary Ray Mabus and the Navy to ensure the Fourth Congressional District could host the commissioning of the USS Mississippi. Both Pascagoula and Gulfport were excellent options for the Navy.”
USS Mississippi, a Virginia-class attack submarine, similar to the one seen here, will enter service fout years from now. The $2 billion submarine will be the fifth ship maned for Mississippi. Secretary of the Navy confirmed Thursday the Mississippi will be commissioned in Gulfport on June 2, 2012.
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Jeu 10 Nov 2011 - 11:35
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Boeing gets second P-8A LRIP contract 2nd phase of low-rate initial production also includes spares, logistics and trainin
SEATTLE, Nov. 9, 2011 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] on Nov. 3 received a $1.7 billion low-rate initial production (LRIP) award from the U.S. Navy for seven additional P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft.
LRIP-II is the follow-on to an initial LRIP-I contract awarded in January to provide six Poseidon aircraft. Overall, the Navy plans to purchase 117 Boeing 737-based P-8A anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft to replace its P-3 fleet.
As part of the contract, Boeing will provide aircrew and maintenance training for the Navy beginning in 2012, in addition to logistics support, spares, support equipment and tools. The training system will include a full-motion, full-visual Operational Flight Trainer that simulates the flight crew stations, and a Weapons Tactics Trainer for the mission crew stations.
"This contract is the result of the Boeing and Navy team's hard work and commitment, and moves us a step closer to P-8A full-rate production," said Chuck Dabundo, Boeing vice president and P-8 program manager. "We've assembled and flown the first LRIP plane and continue to focus on building P-8A aircraft on cost and on schedule."
"LRIP-II brings the P-8A program one step closer to delivering the Poseidon to the fleet," said Capt. Scott Dillon, P-8A deputy program manager for the Navy.
Boeing completed assembly of the first LRIP-I aircraft at its Renton, Wash., facility this summer. The aircraft subsequently completed a successful first flight July 7, 2011, from Renton Field to Boeing Field, which marked its transition from fabrication and assembly to mission system installation and checkout in Seattle.
The Poseidon team is using a first-in-industry in-line production process that draws on Boeing's Next-Generation 737 production system. All P-8A-unique aircraft modifications are made in sequence during fabrication and assembly.
The team has built and is testing six flight-test and two ground-test aircraft under the U.S. Navy System Development and Demonstration contract awarded to Boeing in 2004. Four flight-test aircraft -- T1, T2, T3 and T5 -- are conducting testing at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. The program's static test plane, S1, completed its test program in January. S2, the fatigue test plane, will begin testing next year. Initial operational capability is planned for 2013.
A derivative of the Next-Generation 737-800, the Poseidon is built by a Boeing-led industry team that includes CFM International, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Spirit AeroSystems, BAE Systems and GE Aviation.
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Jeu 10 Nov 2011 - 13:14
http://www.meretmarine.com/article.cfm?id=117762
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Jeu 10 Nov 2011 - 13:24
ou bien comment garder le lien entre la societé(surtout la chair fraiche,les etudiants) et l´armée
p.s:merci de poster tjs au moins le titre avec les liens,pour montrer de quoi il s´agit
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Jeu 10 Nov 2011 - 19:29
ok. Sorry
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Ven 11 Nov 2011 - 15:42
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U.S. Navy to Christen USNS Medgar Evers
The U.S. Navy will christen and launch dry cargo/ammunition ship the USNS Medgar Evers, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, during a 9 a.m. PST ceremony at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego. The ship is named to honor civil rights activist Medgar Evers.
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus willdeliver the ceremony’s principal address. Serving as the ship’s sponsor is Myrlie Evers Williams, widow of the ship’s namesake. Theceremony will include the time-honored Navy tradition of the sponsor breaking a bottle of champagne across the bow to formally christen the ship.
Continuing the Lewis and Clark-class (T-AKE) tradition of honoring legendary pioneers and explorers, the Navy’s newest underway replenishment ship recognizes Medgar Evers(1925-1963), who became active in the civil rights movement after returning from overseas service in World War II.
Designated T-AKE 13, Medgar Evers is the 13th of an expected class of 14 dry cargo/ammunition ships, all of which will be operated by the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC). Evers is being built by General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego. Elevenof the T-AKEs are slated to serve as Combat Logistics Force (CLF) ships, and threeare slated to become part of the Maritime Prepositioning Force. Combat Logistics Force ships help the Navy maintain a worldwide forward presence by delivering ammunition, food, fuel and other supplies to U.S. and allied ships at sea. Currently all 11T-AKEs operating today conduct CLF missions.
Maritime Prepositioning Force ships are continuously deployed to strategic locations worldwide carrying U.S. Marine Corps cargo, which is ready for rapid delivery to Marines ashore if needed.
The first Navy ship named after Evers is the T-AKE 13. Aspart of MSC, T-AKE 13 is designated as a United States Naval Ship (USNS) and will be crewed by civil service mariners. For CLF missions, the T-AKEs’ crews include a small department of sailors. Like the other dry cargo/ammunition ships, T-AKE 13 is designed to operate independently for extended periods at sea and can carry two helicopters and their crews. The ship is 689 feet in length, has an overall beam of 106 feet and a navigational draft of 30 feet. Evers displaces approximately 42,000 tons and is capable of reaching a speed of 20 knots using a single-shaft, diesel-electric propulsion system.
Additional information about the T-AKE class of ship is available on line at defpro]http://goo.gl/xkoky.
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Sam 12 Nov 2011 - 12:35
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U.S. Navy Delivers First Riverine Unmanned Surface Vessel
NORFOLK ,Va. | Program Executive Office, Littoral Combat Ships (PEO LCS), delivered the first three unmanned surface vessels to the U.S. Navy's Riverine Group One, Nov. 1.
Known as MUSCL, the Modular Unmanned Surface Craft Littoral, is an X-class unmanned surface vessel, designed to reduce risk to manned forces and perform tedious and repetitive surveillance tasks.
MUSCL is a two-man portable craft with capabilities that include intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions that provide real-time monitoring of suspicious vessels, personnel, and activity along waterways, shorelines, and under bridges and piers. The units can be employed from Navy riverine assault or patrol boats.
Riverine Group One personnel will maintain and evaluate the three delivered systems for form, fit and functionality.
PEO LCS is leading system development, production, and delivery of the system in partnership with the Naval Surface Warfare Centers at Panama City, Fla., and Carderock Combatant Craft Division, in Little Creek, Va.
PEO LCS, an affiliated program executive office of Naval Sea Systems Command, provides a single program executive responsible for acquiring and maintaining the littoral mission capabilities of the littoral combat ship class, beginning with procurement, and ending with fleet employment and sustainment. PEO LCS designs, delivers and maintains the systems, equipment and weapons necessary to dominate the littoral battle space and provide U. S. forces with assured access to coastal areas.
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Lun 14 Nov 2011 - 10:37
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U.S. To Buy Decommissioned British Harrier Jets
WASHINGTON and LONDON - Britain has agreed to sell all of its 74 decommissioned Harrier jump jets, along with engines and spare parts, to the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps - a move expected to help the Marines operate Harriers into the mid-2020s and provide extra planes to replace aging two-seat F-18D Hornet strike fighters.
Rear Adm. Mark Heinrich, chief of the U.S. Navy's Supply Corps, confirmed the two-part deal Nov. 10 during a conference in New York sponsored by Bank of America Merrill Lynch in association with Defense News. Related Topics
Heinrich negotiated the $50 million purchase of all Harrier spare parts, while Rear Adm. Donald Gaddis, the
U.S. Navy's program executive officer for tactical aircraft, is overseeing discussions to buy the Harrier aircraft and their Rolls-Royce engines, Heinrich said.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence in London confirmed the Disposal Services Agency was in talks with the U.S. Navy for the sale of the Harriers. The deal had yet to be concluded, he said Nov. 11.
Britain retired its joint force of Royal Air Force and Royal Navy Harrier aircraft late last year in one of the most controversial moves of the defense reductions, which also cut the aircraft carriers that operated the jets, other warships, maritime patrol planes and personnel.
Most of the retired Harriers are stored at the Royal Air Force base at Cottesmore, England.
They have been undergoing minimum fleet maintenance, including anti-deterioration measures, in order to keep them airworthy, Heinrich said.
A spokesman for the U.S. Navy's Naval Air Systems Command declined Nov. 11 to comment on the deal, deferring to the British military.
An MoD source said Nov. 11 that he thought both deals could be signed in the next week or two. The MoD source confirmed that the entire fleet of 74 Harrier aircraft was involved in the sale.
Heinrich noted that payment details were the only outstanding issue on the parts deal discussions, and he said the purchase will give the U.S. Marines a relatively economical way to get their hands on key components to keep the Harrier fleet running.
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Lun 14 Nov 2011 - 11:34
depuis septembre que ca negociait,au debut pour 40 (~55M$)
du topic UK
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Fremo a écrit:
Les Harriers de la RN lors d'un Exercice Interarmés en 2009
une idée de leur sort
Spoiler:
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Lun 14 Nov 2011 - 11:52
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Carrier Classic for Veterans Day, between Michigan State and Univeristy of North Carolina. UNC won 67-55. Game played on the deck of USS Carl Vinson.
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Sam 19 Nov 2011 - 11:02
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DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated November 17, 2011
(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON - November 17, 2011: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued November 17, 2011 are undermentioned;
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Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc., Monroeville, Pa., is being awarded a $261,564,863 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for naval nuclear propulsion components. Funds in the amount of $140,761,199 are obligated at time of award. Work will be performed in Monroeville, Pa. (97.7 percent), and Schenectady, N.Y. (2.3 percent). Contract funds in the amount of $1,000,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. No completion date or additional information is provided on naval nuclear propulsion program contracts. Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-12-C-2106).
Rolls-Royce Corp., Indianapolis, Ind., is being awarded a $13,735,723 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-10-C-0020) to exercise an option for maintenance services in support of the V-22 AE1107C turboshaft engines. Work will be performed in Oakland, Calif. (70 percent), and Indianapolis, Ind. (30 percent), and is expected to be completed in November 2012. Contract funds in the amount of $13,672,071 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Lun 21 Nov 2011 - 0:10
Et hop ... Le premier bloc du Destroyer furtif de l'USN, USS Zumwalt DDG-1000, est mis en cale de constrution !
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Mar 22 Nov 2011 - 12:53
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Transport dock San Diego completes Navy trials
PASCAGOULA, Miss.—The amphibious transport dock San Diego—also called LPD 22—has successfully completed its Navy acceptance trials, Ingalls Shipbuilding said.
Shipbuilders will spend the next month putting the final touches on the LPD 17-class vessel to be delivered in mid-December, The Mississippi Press reported (bit.ly/sb7qSe).
San Diego will be homeported in its namesake city, joining USS New Orleans and USS Green Bay.
The San Diego completed a two-day sea trial on Thursday, the shipyard said Friday.
Sea trials test the ship's main propulsion, steering, communications suite and deck missions systems. Tests on anchor handling, ballasting/de-ballasting the well deck and ventilation systems were also performed at sea. "It's amazing what 25,000 tons of steel can do sailing through the Gulf of Mexico," said Doug Lounsberry, vice president and program manager of the LPD 17 program. The 684-foot-long vessel's primary mission is to transport up to 800 Marines, their fighting vehicles and aircraft. It is the sixth in the LPD 17-class built by Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc.'s Ingalls Shipbuilding division.
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Mer 23 Nov 2011 - 16:20
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Boeing Receives F/A-18E/F Infrared Search & Track Development Contract
New IRST system for Super Hornet can detect and track multiple targets in electronically denied environments
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 22, 2011 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] has received a $135 million contract from the U.S. Navy for engineering and manufacturing development of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Infrared Search and Track (IRST) sensor system.
The F/A-18E/F IRST system is a passive, long-range sensor that searches for and detects infrared emissions. The system can track multiple targets simultaneously and provides a highly effective air-to-air targeting capability. IRST allows the user to detect advanced threats, even those equipped with radar-jamming technology.
IRST is an important element of the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18E/F Block II Super Hornet Flight Plan – a series of planned capability enhancements that ensures the Super Hornet will continue to outdistance known and emerging threats over the coming decades. The IRST system is scheduled to achieve Initial Operating Capability in 2016.
“The F/A-18E/F IRST team shares an absolute focus on getting this new capability into the hands of the warfighter,” said Tim Adrian, Boeing F/A-18E/F IRST program manager. “We will deliver a powerful sensor that is fully integrated with the advanced system architecture of the F/A-18E/F, while ensuring that the IRST system provides affordable, supportable and interoperable capability for the Navy.”
Subcontracted to Boeing on IRST are Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], which is producing the IRST sensor; GE Aviation [NYSE: GE], which is supplying the fuel tank assembly that will contain the sensor; and Meggitt Defense Systems Inc., Irvine, Calif., responsible for the unit’s cooling subassembly.
The Boeing Super Hornet is a multirole aircraft, able to perform virtually every mission in the tactical spectrum, including air superiority, day/night strike with precision-guided weapons, fighter escort, close air support, suppression of enemy air defenses, maritime strike, reconnaissance, forward air control and tanker missions.
A unit of The Boeing Company, Boeing Defense, Space & Security is one of the world's largest defense, space and security businesses specializing in innovative and capabilities-driven customer solutions, and the world’s largest and most versatile manufacturer of military aircraft. Headquartered in St. Louis, Boeing Defense, Space & Security is a $32 billion business with 63,000 employees worldwide. Follow us on Twitter: @BoeingDefense.
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Mer 30 Nov 2011 - 15:41
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ATLANTIC OCEAN (Feb. 17, 2011) Sailors spell out "E=MC2" on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the ship's commissioning. Enterprise is the first and oldest nuclear powered aircraft carrier still in service and is celebrating its 50th birthday on Nov. 25, 2011. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd class Alex R. Forster/Released)
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NORFOLK (Nov. 28, 2011) Veterans of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) and visitors listen to Capt. William C. Hamilton, Jr., the ship's commanding officer, during a memorial service in the ship's hangar. The remembrance, part of the ship's 50th birthday celebrations, honored the sacrifice of former Enterprise Sailors. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman David H. Zeigler/Released)
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NORFOLK (Nov. 28, 2011) Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise stand ready to render a rifle volley during a memorial service honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice during her 50 years of Naval Service Nov. 28. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Gregory Pickett II/Released)
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NORFOLK (Nov. 28, 2011) An honor detail conducts a rifle volley during a memorial service aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65). The remembrance, part of the ship's 50th birthday celebrations, honored the sacrifice of former Enterprise Sailors. Enterprise is scheduled to deploy for the last time this Spring. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jacob D. Galito/Released)
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Ven 2 Déc 2011 - 13:02
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BAE Systems and AVX Aircraft Company Join to Compete for US Navy’s MRMUAS BAE Systems and AVX Aircraft Company have combined expertise in system and subsystem integration and rotorcraft design to compete for the U.S. Navy’s Medium Range Maritime Unmanned Aerial System (MRMUAS). The MRMUAS will provide a multi-intelligence, reconfigurable platform for operation from all air-capable ships. The joint team recently submitted its response to the Navy’s Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to develop this future sea and land-based vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial system.
This solution integrates AVX’s patented new aircraft configuration with BAE Systems’ onboard common autonomous mission systems, payloads, mission control system and support capabilities to provide the U.S. Navy a weapon system that exceeds MRMUAS mission requirements. The team’s highly capable, flexible and affordable weapon system leverages state-of-the-art subsystems, a modular open system architecture and a common mission system design that facilitates reuse.
After examining a range of air vehicle options for MRMUAS, including modifying existing commercial and military helicopters, BAE Systems and AVX concluded the Navy’s requirements cannot be met by systems currently on the market. The team brings together AVX’s extensive rotorcraft experience and BAE Systems’ system and subsystem integration expertise, to provide the Navy a weapon system that exceeds MRMUAS mission requirements at low total ownership cost.
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Lun 5 Déc 2011 - 10:51
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Ingalls Shipbuilding Awarded $46 Million Advance Procurement Contract for DDG 1002 Work The deckhouse for DDG 1000 under construction at Ingalls Shipbuilding's Composite Center of Excellence.
08:29 GMT, December 5, 2011 PASCAGOULA, Miss. | Huntington Ingalls Industries announced that the company's Ingalls Shipbuilding division has been awarded an advance procurement contract for work on the U.S. Navy's third Zumwalt-class destroyer, DDG 1002. The contract is valued at $46 million, with the majority of the work taking place at the company's Composite Center of Excellence in Gulfport.
"Strategically, this is a very important contract to our company and specifically to the composite shipbuilders working in Gulfport," said Karrie Trauth, Ingalls Shipbuilding's DDG 1000 program manager. "The Gulfport facility is a national asset in terms of composite capability and capacity. Our shipbuilders continue to prove this on a daily basis with the significant work they are performing in composites for U.S. Navy shipbuilding programs. With this funding, we can prepare our facility and provide the necessary resources for our talented shipbuilders to continue working on these complex products."
The funding for this contract allows Ingalls to purchase material and equipment in support of DDG 1002 advanced construction activities, as well as provide engineering and production support services. Ingalls is already building the deckhouse, hangar and peripheral vertical launch systems for DDG 1000 and DDG 1001.
The deckhouse for DDG 1000 is expected to be delivered in the second quarter of 2012.
The Ingalls Composite Center of Excellence is home to the world's largest numerically controlled, five-axis saw capable of sawing, drilling and milling very large composite components to highly accurate tolerances. Located on 125 acres with access to water, rail and highway transportation links, the center has more than 322,000 square feet of manufacturing space (5.6 football fields) with 253,000 square feet (4.5 football fields) that is environmentally controlled. It has the only U.S. Department of Labor Composite Apprentice Program and is a certified OSHA Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Star Site.
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Mar 6 Déc 2011 - 11:19
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Navy christens submarine Mississippi in Groton
GROTON, Conn. — With the smash of a champagne bottle, the Navy christened its newest submarine on Saturday as the Mississippi, the ninth member of a new generation of attack subs hailed as the world’s most complex pieces of machinery.
A Navy band struck up “Anchors Aweigh” as the submarine’s sponsor, a deputy assistant Navy secretary, smashed the bottle against its sail. The uniformed crew stood atop the 377-foot-long submarine in a dock at a Groton shipyard as Navy admirals, Congress members from Mississippi and Connecticut and other officials addressed the crowd of roughly 5,500 who turned out for the ceremony.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, a former Mississippi governor, said the submarine was designed for flexibility, with the ability to conduct surveillance in shallow waters and deliver Navy SEALs or other special forces without being detected.
“Mississippi is built to excel in traditional submarine areas of warfare: anti-submarine, anti-surface, strike warfare,” Mabus said. “But she is also built to excel in nontraditional ones: special operations, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, irregular warfare.”
The Mississippi is the latest in the Virginia class of submarines, which are built in partnership between Groton-based Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding at a cost of about $2.6 billion each. They carry torpedoes as well as Tomahawk missiles and have features including a torpedo room that can be refigured to hold Navy SEALs.
The submarine will be commissioned as the Mississippi in a June ceremony in Gulfport, Miss.
On behalf of Mississippi’s 3 million residents, Gov. Haley Barbour said he was honored to claim the submarine as their own. He said it would continue the proud legacy of the four other Navy vessels to carry the name Mississippi, including the steam frigate that Commodore William Perry commanded when he opened American trade with Japan in the 1850s.
“The Mississippi will be an incredible platform for defending our shores and projecting our power,” Barbour said.
The 7,800-ton submarine will carry a crew of 132 officers and sailors, led by Navy Capt. John McGrath, on standard deployments of six months. Its nuclear reactor is designed to power the submarine for its service life of 30 years or longer, propelling the sub at speeds exceeding 25 knots submerged.
Mabus said the complexity of the submarine is a testament to the skill and dedication of America’s ship builders.
“When you look at the ship, you know American exceptionalism will not only survive, it will prevail,” he said.
Electric Boat expects to deliver the Mississippi a year ahead of schedule and $50 million below the projected cost.
With the Defense Department facing potentially huge budget cuts as Congress looks to trim the national deficit, Navy officers and elected officials who spoke Saturday praised the Virginia-class program as a model example of how to find efficiencies with contractors. Rep. Joe Courtney and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, both of Connecticut, praised the work of contractors and shipyard employees involved in constructing the Mississippi.
“Its might and magnificence are literally as awe inspiring as the sea itself. It is our steel beneath the sea,” Blumenthal said.
Construction of the Mississippi began in February 2007 and the submarine needs only sea trials, final outfitting and other tests before it is ready for delivery.
The ship’s sponsor, Allison Stiller, held the champagne bottle over her head triumphantly after christening the sub.
“I endow her with my tenacity, compassion and love of family and friends,” said Stiller, the deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for ship programs.
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Jeu 8 Déc 2011 - 10:49
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DRS Technologies Awarded $691 Million IDIQ Contract From Lockheed Martin for U.S. Navy Submarine Technology Upgrade
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PARSIPPANY, NJ, Dec 06, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- DRS Technologies, Inc., A Finmeccanica Company, announced that its DRS Laurel Technologies business unit, a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin, received an award for a U.S. Navy Submarine Technology Insertion Hardware (TIH) contract that will provide submarine combat and sonar systems designed around commercially available hardware and software.
DRS has been awarded a five year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with a ceiling value of $691 million from Lockheed Martin to provide the production hardware.
"We have worked very closely with the Lockheed Martin team to meet a very aggressive schedule for the production hardware to support the U.S. Navy's TIH Upgrade," says Patrick Marion, vice president and general manager of DRS Laurel Technologies.
"These new TIH production units will continue our long term relationship with Lockheed Martin and provide high quality products in support of Lockheed Martin programs around the world," Marion added.
The Navy's Technology Insertion Hardware program includes design, development and production of hardware for the next two submarine technology insertions planned for Seawolf, SSGN, 688/688i, Virginia Class, and future submarine systems and platforms. The U.S. Navy will provide the Royal Australian Navy with similar technology insertions for the Collins Class submarines through the Foreign Military Sales program.
DRS Technologies, headquartered in Parsippany, NJ, is a leading supplier of integrated products, services and support to military forces, intelligence agencies and prime contractors worldwide. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Finmeccanica S.p.A. (FNC.MI) which employs more than 71,000 people worldwide. For more information about DRS Technologies, please visit the company's website at www.drs.com .
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Sujet: Re: US Navy Lun 12 Déc 2011 - 0:28
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L'USS George H.W. Bush rentre de son premier déploiement
Le porte-avions américain George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) crédits : US NAVY
12/12/2011
Le dernier-né des porte-avions américains a retrouvé samedi la base de Norfolk, en Virginie, sur la côte Est des Etats-Unis. L'USS George H.W. Bush achève, ainsi, son premier déploiement opérationnel. Une mission de 7 mois au cours de laquelle il a manoeuvré en Atlantique, Méditerranée, mer Rouge et océan Indien. Le porte-avions est rentré à sa base en compagnie de son escorte, composée du croiseur lance-missiles USS Anzio, ainsi que des destroyers lance-missiles USS Truxtun, USS Mitsher et USS. Le croiseur USS Gettysburg, qui appartenait également au George H.W. Carrier Strike Group (GHWB CSG) a, quant à lui, regagné sa base de Mayport (Floride).
Dixième et dernière unité du type Nimitz/Theodore Roosevelt, le CVN 77 a été mis sur cale en 2003 aux chantiers Huntington Ingalls Industries de Newport News et remis à l'US Navy en janvier 2009. S'en est suivie une longue période d'essais, 7 mois d'arrêt technique et une montée en puissance progressive de l'équipage et du groupe aérien embarqué, sans compter la capacité du navire à s'intégrer dans un groupe aéronaval. Une fois opérationnel, le bâtiment avait quitté Norfolk le 11 mai dernier pour son premier grand déploiement, dans les zones de responsabilité des 5ème et 6ème flottes. Long de 333 mètres pour un déplacement de 98.000 tonnes en charge, le navire, armé par 5600 marins, peut embarquer 68 avions et hélicoptères. Il dispose de deux réacteurs à eau pressurisée fournissant une puissance de 205 MW et assurant une vitesse maximale de 31 noeuds. Pour son autodéfense, le CVN 77 compte, en plus de sa chasse embarquée, deux lanceurs verticaux (24 missiles ESSM) et deux systèmes surface-air à courte portée RAM.
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9 Ticonderoga et .... 3 Whidbey Island devront quitter le service d'ici 2014 
en tout cas l´austerité fait son entrée en jeux,et je sens que c´est que le debut
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BAE Systems and AVX Aircraft Company have combined expertise in system and subsystem integration and rotorcraft design to compete for the U.S. Navy’s Medium Range Maritime Unmanned Aerial System (MRMUAS). The MRMUAS will provide a multi-intelligence, reconfigurable platform for operation from all air-capable ships. The joint team recently submitted its response to the Navy’s Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to develop this future sea and land-based vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial system.
