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LCS: The USA’s Littoral Combat Ships

LCS: The USA’s Littoral Combat Ships

by | May 18, 2023 | Airbus, Asia - Other, BAE, Boeing, Budgets, Coastal & Littoral, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Design Innovations, Eng. Control Systems, Expeditionary Warfare, FOCUS Articles, Force Structure, Forces - Naval, General Dynamics, IAI, Interoperability, Israel, Issues - Political, IT - Software & Integration, L3 Communications, Lobbying, Lockheed Martin, Materials Innovations, Missiles - Precision Attack, Missiles - Surface-Air, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, Policy - Doctrine, Power Projection, Procurement Innovations, Project Methodologies, Protective Systems - Naval, R&D - Contracted, Raytheon, Rolls Royce, Sensors - Aquatic, Surface Ships - Combat, Testing & Evaluation, Training & Exercises, Transformation, USA, UUVs & USVs, Warfare - Trends

Austal Team Trimaran LCS Design (click to enlarge) Exploit simplicity, numbers, the pace of technology development in electronics and robotics, and fast reconfiguration. That was the US Navy’s idea for the low-end backbone of its future surface combatant fleet....
LCS: The USA’s Littoral Combat Ships

Digital Abrams: The M1A2 SEP Program

by | May 17, 2023 | Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Delivery & Task Orders, Electronics - General, FOCUS Articles, General Dynamics, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Simulation & Training, Tanks & Mechanized, USA

M1A2 SEP (click to view full) America’s M1 Abrams tanks come in a number of versions. In addition to the M1A1 that is now standard, the US Army is beginning to field its M1 TUSK for urban warfare. It also operates the M1A2 System Enhancement Program (SEP),...
LCS: The USA’s Littoral Combat Ships

The New Chinooks: Boeing’s Modern H-47 Heavy-Lift Helicopters

by | May 16, 2023 | Africa - Other, Americas - Other, Avionics, BAE, Boeing, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Europe - Other, FOCUS Articles, Forces - Special Ops, France, Helicopters & Rotary, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Protective Systems - Aircraft, United Arab Emirates (UAE), USA

CH-47Fs take off (click to view full) DII FOCUS articles offer in-depth, updated looks at significant military programs of record; this FOCUS Article covers the CH-47F/MH-47G Chinook helicopter programs, in the USA and abroad. These helicopters’ distinctive...
LCS: The USA’s Littoral Combat Ships

Counterfeit Chinese Electronics Redux; AESA & GBU-39 Suspect

by | May 11, 2023 | BAE, China, Industry & Trends, Issues - Political, IT - Cyber-Security, Other Corporation, Policy - Procurement, Scandals & Investigations, Security & Secrecy, USA

On Sept 30/08, “The USA’s National Cybersecurity Initiative” focused on the belated but growing reaction to recent uses of cyber-attacks as an adjunct to warfare, and by the growing rate of attempted intrusions into American systems from countries...
LCS: The USA’s Littoral Combat Ships

Serious Dollars for AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD)

by | May 10, 2023 | ABM, Budgets, Contracts - Awards, FOCUS Articles, IT - Software & Integration, Japan, Lockheed Martin, Missiles - Surface-Air, Other Corporation, Protective Systems - Naval, Radars, Raytheon, Support Functions - Other, Surface Ships - Combat, Testing & Evaluation, USA

AEGIS-BMD: CG-70 launches SM-3 (click to view full) The AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense System seamlessly integrates the SPY-1 radar, the MK 41 Vertical Launching System for missiles, the SM-3 Standard missile, and the ship’s command and control system, in order...