Taiwan Wants Land-Based Harpoon Anti-Ship Missiles To Counter Growing Chinese Naval Power
The announcement comes as both of China’s aircraft carriers may be preparing to work together in a first-of-its-kind exercise.
Tag: Block II
Get Your First Look At The Navy’s Block III F/A-18 Super Hornet Test Jet
This is the first of two jets the Navy will use for testing ahead of starting to receive fully upgraded jets later this year.
This Is Our First Look At A CH-47 Chinook With Super Powerful T408 Engines
A picture has emerged of a Block II Boeing CH-47F Chinook helicopter fitted with a pair of powerful General Electric T408 engines. The company had said in May that it was preparing to flight test a Chinook equipped with these engines, which are the same ones found on Sikorsky’s troubled CH-53K King Stallion.
The AIM-9X Sidewinder May Finally Evolve Into A Completely New And Longer-Range Missile
The Navy is still funding work on a new rocket motor and other features that could fundamentally change the character of this “dogfighting” missile.
Boeing To Flight Test CH-47 With Same Monster Engines Found On Sikorsky’s New CH-53K
Boeing says that it will begin flight tests of a CH-47 Chinook equipped with two more powerful General Electric T408 engines, the same ones that the U.S. Marine Corps’ future Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallions will use. The announcement comes amid a series of new delays in the troubled King Stallion program and a Congressionally mandated review of whether an alternative helicopter, such as the Chinook, might be able to meet Marine requirements instead.
Navy’s Old Harpoon Anti-Ship Missile To Get New Tricks After Scoring Six For Six At RIMPAC
The Harpoon anti-ship missile, a staple in allied navies around the world, may be a 40-year-old design, but it still has a lot of fight left in it.
American Destroyer Packed New Electronic Warfare System During Black Sea Mission
Arguably a U.S. Navy surface combatant’s most important weapon deals in electrons not high-explosives, and it’s more important now than ever.
Watch The Navy Fire Its New Evolved Sea Sparrow Block II Missile For The First Time
This new version of the Sea Sparrow features its own active radar seeker that will make fending off swarms of cruise missiles much more plausible.