The more reliable the Navy’s MQ-8B Fire Scout becomes, the more theater commanders want it. At the end of March, MQ-8Bs deployed in the Mediterranean on USS Robert G. Bradley …
Tuesday, May 14, 2013, has gone down as an historic day for U.S. naval aviation, with the first launch at sea of an autonomous, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Off the …
The P-8A Poseidon’s debut deployment will be to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa with detachments all over the western Pacific. Poseidon basing requirements are a bit different. Getting a P-8A …
Perspective
As we noted in the previous post, the United States remains among the world’s most open, innovative, and flexible countries. Companies such as Apple, Amazon, Google, E-Bay and others …
Logistics convoys have been high priority – and highly vulnerable – targets for insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade. Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), mines, and RPG (rocket-propelled …
From the early days of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Marine Corps has been one of the most ardent supporters and users of unmanned systems, from hand-launched unmanned aerial …
On Aug. 7, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command conducted a test of the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. The …
Looking ahead is always daunting; crystal balls are not what they once were. If you were looking 20-odd years ahead in, say, 1975, when the Soviets seemed to be doing …
“Knifefish provides capability that we don’t have with UUVs today,” said Capt. Duane Ashton, a program manager for unmanned maritime systems with the Program Executive Office Littoral Combat Ship (LCS).…
This year, the Navy commissions its third and fourth littoral combat ships, or LCS, a revolutionary new warship design that uses modular, “plug-and-fight” mission packages that can be changed in …
