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U.S. Navy’s helicopter completes fit check on USS Anchorage May 25, 2021, by Sanja Pekic Northrop Grumman Corporation’s MQ-8C Fire Scout has passed the initial fit check aboard the USS Anchorage at Naval Base San Diego. Courtesy of Northrop Grumman Belonging to the U.S. Navy’s only ship-based autonomous helicopter program, the MQ-8C Fire Scout has the ability to autonomously take off and land on any aviation-capable ship and from prepared and unprepared landing zones. The fit check reportedly demonstrated the aircrafts’ suitability for th...

Royal Navy’s upgraded Spearfish torpedo declared ready for the front line May 14, 2021, by Naida Hakirevic The Royal Navy’s new Spearfish torpedo has been declared ready for front-line action with the navy and undergone extensive deepwater trials with HMS Audacious in the Bahamas. View from trials team boat as they approach HMS Audacious. Image by Royal Navy Five of the heavy torpedoes were successfully fired by Audacious – the fourth of the Royal Navy’s Astute-class nuclear-powered submarines – during three days of trials on a special range....

Royal Navy Tests Upgraded Torpedo from HMS Audacious Submarine Our Bureau 411 Spearfish Mod-1 torpedo The Royal Navy said it fired an upgraded version of Spearfish heavy torpedo from HMS Audacious Astute-class nuclear-powered submarine in the Bahamas. The firings at AUTEC, the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Centre on Andros Island, studied the performance of the weapon at its maximum operating depth and challenged the torpedo's homing abilities through the introduction of countermeasures. The trials in the Bahamas were the latest in a string of crucial tests on the upgraded heavyweig...

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USMC F-35Bs have arrived at RAF Lakenheath to deploy aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth. Split into two sections, each including 5 jets, a total of 10 USMC F-35Bs aircraft have arrived at RAF Lakenheath, UK. The first five jets landed on Apr. 26, 2021; the remaining ones arrived at the base in Suffolk, England, on Apr. 28, 2021. The USMC F-35Bs aircraft belong to the VMFA-211 Wake Island Avengers, based at MCAS (Marine Corps Air Station) Yuma, Arizona, and, in the next weeks, they will depart RAF Lakenheath to head to the HMS Queen Elizabeth, for UK’s new aircraft carrier’s first operational depl...