Acting Secretary of the Air Force John Roth selected Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, as the preferred location for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent, a new intercontinental ballistic missile, Formal Training Unit. , News, features and commentaries about Air Force Reserve people, equipment and missions
“DIU is punching above its weight and having an impact beyond its size,” acquisition guru Bill Greenwalt says. “Still, that will not be enough…. Unless the rest of the Department and Congress learns these lessons, we will continue to fall behind China.”
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on March 04, 2021 at 3:18 PM
US Coast Guard accepts Guam’s third fast response cutter February 15, 2021, by Bojan Lepic
The US Coast Guard has accepted delivery of its newest Sentinel-class fast response cutter (FRC) Frederick Hatch (WPC 1143) from Bollinger Shipyards in Key West, Florida.
The Coast Guard said that the vessel was delivered in early February 2021. Frederick Hatch is scheduled to be the third FRC stationed in Guam and will arrive in Santa Rita during the summer.
The cutter was placed in commission, special status, and will remain in Florida while the crew completes pre-commissioning trials and maintenance.
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The fast response cutters in the Pacific are a game-changer for the Coast Guard.
BAE Systems awarded production contract for additional LRASM seekers
by Robin Hughes
BAE Systems Electronic Systems in Nashua, New Hampshire, in early December disclosed the award from Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control of a USD60 million contract to supply additional seeker systems for the AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM).
LRASM is a joint-service (US Navy: USN/US Air Force: USAF) 2400 lb (1088.6 kg) air-launched high-subsonic conventional precision-guided stand-off anti-ship missile derived from the AGM-158B Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile - Extended Range (JASSM-ER) weapon system. The AGM-158C retains the JASSM-ER 1000 lb penetrator/blast fragmentation warhead and enhanced digital anti-jam GPS, but introduces a multimode sensor/seeker package developed by BAE Systems (which combines a passive radio-frequency (RF) long-range sensor for wide area target acquisition and an imaging infrared seeker for terminal targeting), and a weapon data link L-Band Unit