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[BCNTM]

Here's a New Image of the Secret B-21 Raider Bomber. Let's Analyze It.

The stealth plane has a nose like a woodpecker, among other intriguing features.

www.popularmechanics.com

more renders but no real pictures yet

 

[santana]

Naval Special Warfare Welcomes CQT Class 115; First Woman Operator​

15 July 2021

CORONADO, Calif. – Candidates of Crewman Qualification Training (CQT) Class 115 completed Naval Special Warfare’s (NSW) assessment and selection pipeline to become Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC), earning their pins and graduating, Thursday, July 15, 2021.


CORONADO, Calif. (July 15, 2021) Cmdr. Brad Geary, Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Basic Training Command commanding officer, addresses members of Crewman Qualification Training (CQT) Class 115 during a ceremony at Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Center in Coronado, Calif., July 15. 2021. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Anthony W. Walker)

Among the 17 graduates is NSW’s first woman operator.
The SWCC assessment and selection pipeline challenges candidates through adversity, always upholding validated, gender-neutral and operationally-relevant standards.

“Becoming the first woman to graduate from a Naval Special Warfare training pipeline is an extraordinary accomplishment, and we are incredibly proud of our teammate,” said Rear Adm. H. W. Howard, commander, U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command.

Naval Special Warfare Welcomes CQT Class 115; First Woman Operator

CORONADO, Calif. – Candidates of Crewman Qualification Training (CQT) Class 115 completed Naval Special Warfare’s (NSW) assessment and selection pipeline to become Special Warfare Combatant-craft

www.navy.mil

 

[BCNTM]

Amazing: DARPA Is Working on Nuclear-Powered Armed Attack Spacecraft

This latest DARPA technology will allow a rocket or space vehicle to operate in cislunar space, which is the area outside of the Earth’s atmosphere—just past the moon’s orbit.

nationalinterest.org

 

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Hate to have to contribute by posting something like this, but here it goes, seeing as noone else sofar picked up on this:

Navy charges sailor with setting fire that destroyed warship

The U.S. Navy charged a sailor Thursday with starting a fire last year that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard docked off San Diego, marking the maritime branch's worst warship blaze outside of combat in recent memory. The sailor was a member of the crew at the time, Cmdr. Sean Robertson, a...

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[Chazman]

Hate to have to contribute by posting something like this, but here it goes, seeing as noone else sofar picked up on this:

Navy charges sailor with setting fire that destroyed warship

The U.S. Navy charged a sailor Thursday with starting a fire last year that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard docked off San Diego, marking the maritime branch's worst warship blaze outside of combat in recent memory. The sailor was a member of the crew at the time, Cmdr. Sean Robertson, a...

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I saw that a few days ago. Not sure what to make of it. If true, they should throw the book at him.

 

[BravoZulu]

The Navy conducted its first test flight of the MQ-4C Triton in its upgraded hardware and software configuration July 29 at NAS Patuxent River, beginning the next phase of the unmanned aircraft’s development.

The MQ-4C Triton flew in its new configuration, known as Integrated Functional Capability (IFC)-4, which will bring an enhanced multi-mission sensor capability as part of the Navy’s Maritime Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting (MISR&T) transition plan.

Triton's Integrated Test Team (ITT) comprised of the U.S. Navy, Australian cooperative partners, and government/industry teams completed a functional check flight and initial aeromechanical test points, demonstrating stability and control of the MQ-4C after a 30-month modification period.

“Today’s flight is a significant milestone for the program and a testament to the resolve of the entire ITT, their hard work, and passion for test execution and program success,” said Capt. Dan Mackin, Persistent Maritime Unmanned Aircraft Systems program manager. “This flight proves that the program is making significant progress toward Triton’s advanced multi-intelligence upgrade and it brings us closer to achieving the initial operational capability (IOC) milestone.”

Multiple Triton assets have been modified into the IFC-4 configuration in support of IOC in 2023. A single test asset is in the current IFC-3 configuration to support sustainment of deployed systems as well as risk reduction for IFC-4.

 

[JimHPTN]

Air Force Tests Military Aircraft By Landing On Michigan Highway, A First - Breaking911

The Michigan National Guard, in coordination with the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and local partners, closed a portion of Michigan State Highway M-32 for hours on Thursday to “test its ability to land aircraft on roadways designed for cars and trucks.” The Michigan Air National...

breaking911.com

Pretty cool to be using highways as alternate airfields. I know that some were set up to do just that and saw it in the Middle East, but I've never heard of it being done here.

 

[BCNTM]

https://theaviationist.com/2021/08/09/sparrowhawk/

mothership is going to be interesting - big black triangle

 

[morris]

The US Air Force purchased a decommissioned Boeing E-3D AWACS aircraft from the British Air Force for $ 15 million,. It will be used to train pilots of Boeing E-6B control and communications aircraft.

 

[BravoZulu]

The U.S. Army Contracting Command – Detroit Arsenal (ACC- DTA) announced that it has awarded Oshkosh Defense, a wholly owned subsidiary of Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE: OSK), a $99 Million order to upgrade an additional Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) with the 30 mm Medium Caliber Weapon System (MCWS).

In June 2021, the U.S. Army selected Oshkosh Defense and partners Pratt Miller Defense and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems to integrate the 30 mm MCWS onto the Stryker Double V Hull Infantry Carrier Vehicle (ICVVA1). The six-year requirements contract is for the production and fielding of the Oshkosh Defense MCWS for up to six Stryker brigades. The first delivery order covered 91 vehicles valued at $130 million. This latest award calls for an additional 83 vehicles.

 

[morris]

A test launch of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, USA.

 

[BCNTM]

New Skunk Works Plant to Build Advanced Fighters, Other Projects | Air & Space Forces Magazine

Lockheed Martin has finished building a massive new factory for its Skunk Works division to work on advanced development projects.

www.airforcemag.com

Wonder what they are going to build?

 

[Fish&Chips]

Pretty cool to be using highways as alternate airfields. I know that some were set up to do just that and saw it in the Middle East, but I've never heard of it being done here.

Those highway airstrips used to be all across Germany during the Cold War, and Finland is still using this method today.

 

[Chazman]

New Skunk Works Plant to Build Advanced Fighters, Other Projects | Air & Space Forces Magazine

Lockheed Martin has finished building a massive new factory for its Skunk Works division to work on advanced development projects.

www.airforcemag.com

Wonder what they are going to build?

NGAD?

 

[morris]

General Dynamics opens new unmanned underwater vehicle manufacturing center

General Dynamics opened a new unmanned underwater vehicle manufacturing and assembly facility as its Knifefish UUV program nears operational testing.

www.defensenews.com

The company formally opened the UUV center of excellence in an Aug. 13 ceremony at its Taunton manufacturing site, which since 1987 has built systems for the U.S. Army and other customers. The Knifefish UUV was previously built at the company’s facility in Quincy, Mass., but the work has outgrown the facility as General Dynamics juggles building the Knifefish, engineering and backfitting improvements and building smaller UUVs in the Bluefin family of systems for customers like the Royal Australian Navy.

 

[DZimm]

Marine Corps Successfully Demonstrates NMESIS During LSE 21

 

[morris]

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-military-israel-iron-dome-system-test

The United States military conducted its first domestic test of the Iron Dome anti-missile system earlier this year, Israel's Defence ministry announced on Monday.
The ministry said in a statement that the series of tests, in which US soldiers shot down targets, was the "first firing attempt with an Iron Dome battery in the United States, operated by US Army soldiers".

 

[morris]

Departure from the US naval base in San Diego of the new American unmanned surface trimaran - "submarine hunter" Sea Hawk. August 27, 2021.

 

[BCNTM]

Mystery aircraft is pictured flying over the Philippines

Photographer Michael Fugnit captured an image of the craft on Thursday, noting that the diamond-shaped aircraft was unlike any commercial or military aircraft that usually fly nearby.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[morris]

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