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Navy tests aerial logistics drone on USS Gerald Ford
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Naval Air Force Atlantic tested its aerial logistics drone prototype, Blue Water UAS, last weekend, the branch announced. Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy
Feb. 23 (UPI) Naval Air Force Atlantic tested a long-range aerial drone last weekend, the Navy announced.
The long-range cargo transport, dubbed Blue Water UAS, is designed to operate with Naval Forces that typically operate in heavy winds over open water and require aircraft to land on vessels that are moving rapidly at sea.
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The proof-of-concept test was conducted last Sunday by transporting lightweight logistical equipment from the mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center at Naval Station Norfolk on board USS Gerald R. Ford while the carrier was in-port.
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$10,953,284 firm-fixed-price order (N00019-21-F-0207) against previously issued basic ordering agreement N00019-16-G-0001. This order procures 16 refurbished harpoon capsules and four All-Up Round encapsulated harpoon missiles for the Navy. Work will be performed in Burnley, United Kingdom (70.84%); St. Charles, Missouri (27.9%); Seattle, Washington (1.16%); and various locations within the continental U.S. (0.1%), and is expected to be completed in December 2022. Fiscal 2021 operation and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $10,953,284 will be obligated at time of award, all of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The
Jazz ShawPosted at 12:03 pm on February 4, 2021
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As those of you who have been following the story of the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force are likely aware, one of the more interesting figures to emerge from this saga is an inventor named Dr. Salvatore Pais. Working for the Navy under the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD), Pais applied for and was granted a series of really eye-opening patents over the years. These included claims of inventions, or at least plausible working theories, including an inertial mass reduction device, a gravitational wave generator, and a method of generating high-intensity electromagnetic fields. That last item was named “the Pais effect” and it allegedly could lead to new methods of both energy generation and propulsion that would be on par with the ability to warp space and time.