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including amphib. Carrier ESSEX (LHD 2) and LPDs ANCHORAGE und RUSHMORE arrived in Hong Kong
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Naval Today said:
The amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) anchored in Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong, for a scheduled port visit June 5.

More than 3,000 Sailors and Marines embarked on Essex will represent the U.S. Navy as ambassadors, as they create friendships and goodwill with the people of Hong Kong.

USS Essex is part of the Essex Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), which consists of Essex, USS Rushmore (LSD 47), USS Anchorage (LPD 23) and their embarked complement of Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (15th MEU).
 

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U.S. Navy Awards General Dynamics $6.5 Million for Virginia Payload Module Development
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The VPM will comprise four large-diameter payload tubes in a new hull section to be inserted in Virginia-class submarines. The section will extended the hull by 70 to 80 feet and boost strike capacity by 230 percent while increasing the cost by less than 15 percent.
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MV-22B Osprey Used To Support USMC F-35B Aircraft On Board USS Wasp At Sea
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As U.S. Marines and sailors have been working together to conduct an assessment of F-35B Lightning II integration into amphibious operations over the past two weeks, they are learning to overcome the challenges inherent in maintaining and resupplying one of the world's most advanced pieces of military technology while out at sea.
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HII Awarded Contract for Detail Design & Construction of Aircraft Carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79)
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Huntington Ingalls Industries received a $3.35 billion contract award for the detail design and construction of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), the second ship in the Gerald R. Ford class of carriers. The work will be performed at the company's Newport News Shipbuilding division. The company also received a $941 million modification to an existing construction preparation contract to continue material procurement and manufacturing in support of the ship.
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First Flight Test of Next Gen Standard Missile-3 Block IIA SM-3 Anti-Ballistic Missile Complete
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The U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) conducted the first flight test of the Raytheon Company Standard Missile-3 Block IIA. The interceptor's bigger rocket motors and more capable kill vehicle will engage threats sooner and protect larger regions from short- to intermediate-range ballistic missile threats.
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LRASM Anti-Ship Missile & F/A-18E/F Testing conducted in AEDC transonic wind tunnel
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Store separation testing of the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet was recently conducted in the 16-foot transonic wind tunnel (16T) at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC).
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the Hornets issue:
Admiral: Corrosion Damage on F/A-18 Hornets ‘Caught Us by Surprise’

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Yeah, they passed on the Raptor, and now they are DDDDRRRRAAAAAGGGGGIIINNNNGGGG their feet on the F-35C, heh, heh, heh?? without a viable Fighter Air Wing, those carriers might as well be "Party Barges" from Bass Pro???

I am hoping that they will accept this "wake up call" as a call to "general quarters" and jump on the F-35C with the same enthusiam the Marines have exercised with the B model,
"Go Navy"
 

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U.S. Navy Awards General Dynamics $6.5 Million for Virginia Payload Module Development
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MV-22B Osprey Used To Support USMC F-35B Aircraft On Board USS Wasp At Sea
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HII Awarded Contract for Detail Design & Construction of Aircraft Carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79)
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First Flight Test of Next Gen Standard Missile-3 Block IIA SM-3 Anti-Ballistic Missile Complete
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LRASM Anti-Ship Missile & F/A-18E/F Testing conducted in AEDC transonic wind tunnel
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all good news, and hopefully they will jump on the F-35C as the tremendous boon to fleet air defense, this is a very sweet airplane, that will offer a lot of "bang for the buck", and will secure the CVN long after many of us have gone to meet our Maker?
 

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Changes for 7th Fleet more combat ships
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Aircraft Carrier
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- flagship,
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. To return to Norfolk via San Diego in 2015
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- scheduled to replace George Washington in 2015
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Cruisers
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USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) In addition ?
Destroyers

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(COMDESRON 15)
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- Transition to Seventh Fleet, Summer 2015
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- Transition to Seventh Fleet, Summer 2017
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- Hull-swap with USS Lassen, Early 2016
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And now 4 SSN to Guam, Topeka has undergone a RCOH to Portsmouth before based to San Diego attached to Sub Sqn 11, the first LA 688i for this base which have yet 3 LA Fl II with VLS.
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Army Aims for Bradley Replacement or Upgrade
By Joe Gould4:18 p.m. EDT June 8, 2015
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WASHINGTON — The two design contracts awarded by the US Army for the Future Fighting Vehicle (FFV) could yield a Bradley replacement or technology spinouts to upgrade the Bradley.

BAE Systems Land and Armaments and General Dynamics Land Systems won the contracts, of more than $28 million each. The work is due Nov. 28, 2016.

Following the last decade's failed 70-ton Ground Combat Vehicle and sprawling Future Combat Systems, deemed unaffordable or having requirements that are infeasible, analysts said the Army is taking a more pragmatic approach, exploring what is technically possible and financially affordable.

The decision to build a new vehicle will likely hinge on whether the technologies and systems proposed offer game-changing improvements, or whether incrementally improved legacy vehicles can provide significant performance gains at lower costs, said James Tinsley, managing director at the consulting firm Avascent. For industry, the stakes are high.

"Infantry fighting vehicle programs are difficult because the Army is buying a vehicle that it will sustain in service for 30 or more years," Tinsley said. "They are highly political, winner-take-all competitions. And the threat environment keeps evolving from near-peer to asymmetric, and back again," he said.

The award came a week after Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno said the service is exploring the need for an infantry fighting vehicle, mobile protected firepower, and a light tank, using 20 collaborative war-fighting challenges to identify capability gaps with near-, mid- and long-term solutions.

Failures of the Ground Combat Vehicle and Future Combat Systems have been attributed to over-reach on the requirements, which Odierno acknowledged in a discussion with reporters.

"One of the problems we've had in the past with our major programs is that we tried to build the perfect vehicle," Odierno said. "The requirements were so high they were difficult, they took a lot of time, they were over-budget, and we couldn't meet them."

The Army is now "developing requirements that leave room for improvement," Odierno said.

"As we develop a new system, we can do it quicker, and it may be 80 percent of what we want initially, but in the next iteration, it will be 90 percent, and then it'll be 100 percent," he said. "I think the processes we're putting in place now are enabling us to do this. It should allow us to do it quicker, it should allow us to do it cheaper."

Aerospace and defense policy analyst Roman Schweitzer, of Guggenheim Securities, said that with Bradley and Stryker upgrades in the works, there should be work to support the industrial base for the next several years. The Army must still deliver on the joint light tactical vehicle and armored multipurpose vehicle, and keep funding for M1 Abrams, Stryker, Bradley and Paladin upgrades stable.

Meanwhile, the FFV concepts should keep the design and engineering workforces at both GD and BAE engaged and thinking about what comes next, he said.

If the Army wants something that is good enough and is open to 80 percent solutions, it may opt to keep the Bradley. James Hasik, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, called the Bradley A3, "an awesome tank destroyer, and a pretty good mechanized infantry vehicle" whose only significant problem is its "limited margin for further electronics."

"Getting better than good enough seems to me not a good use of money," Hasik said. "It's not suitable for urban counterinsurgency, but that's what [mine resistant ambush protected vehicles] are for. It lacks the operational deployability of an 8x8, but that's why the Strykers do those dragoon rides. So there's just no urgency here."

Urgent or not, the Army recognizes that the Bradley is falling behind in terms of lethality and capacity. In previous efforts, the Army failed to advance the state of the art and stay affordable, as it attempted to balance weight versus protection and capacity versus weight, Tinsley said.

There are probably incremental performance improvements that can be squeezed out of Bradley through another round of engineering change proposals, Tinsey said, but FFV is meant to provide a competitive assessment of whether that is the right approach.

The Army will presumably get a series of alternatives from Bradley-maker BAE and General Dynamics that includes Bradley and Stryker lethality and capacity improvements, and new vehicle designs to allow greater future flexibility at a higher cost.

BAE and General Dynamics are to conduct trade studies, requirements analysis, and modeling and simulation, and assess technology capability and maturity to support each of three design concepts, according to an announcement from General Dynamics.

BAE spokeswoman Megan Mitchell said the company's analysis aims to strike the right balance between payload, protection and performance.

"As the original equipment manufacturer for the Bradley fighting vehicle, we have a unique understanding of the requirements and user needs," Mitchell said. "Among our top considerations will be platform weight and program affordability as we balance overall performance."



In October, Brig. Gen. David Bassett, commander PEO Ground Combat Systems, said the FFV program was largely a science-and-technology development effort, exploring "the art of the possible." It's meant to help the Army explore its options while it pursues various engineering-change proposals for its existing armored vehicles.

The program office is monitoring technology development at the Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center, searching for breakthrough armor technologies and other advancements. That includes an advanced combat engine, a modular active protection system and new hull manufacturing.

-- Michelle Tan contributed to this report.
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Round Three FIGHT!
 

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It's on boys.

The U.S. Army's website,
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, was offline Monday afternoon after it was compromised by hackers who took it over and used it to post their own messages.

A group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Armyclaimed on Twitter that it was behind the hack.

The Army affirmed that part of its website had been compromised but clarified that the site carried no sensitive information about Army activities nor any personal information about soldiers.

"After this came to our attention, the Army took appropriate preventive measures to ensure there was no breach of Army data by taking down the website temporarily," said Army Brig. Gen. Malcolm B. Frost, Chief of Public Affairs.

As of Monday afternoon, attempts to open the army.mil website resulted in a message of "This webpage is not available."

A Twitter account called SyrianElectronicArmy began tweeting around noon that it had hacked the Army website and "left several messages on it."

One read "Your commanders admit they are training the people they have sent you to die fighting.
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The Syrian Electronic Army is a group of hackers who support the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

In the past the group, or at least people claiming to be the group, have launched computer attacks against political opponents, news sites, human rights groups and other governments as well as U.S. defense contractors.
 

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US Army Aviation

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In second Recc Cav Sqn with OH-58D or sometimes AH-64 Bat in each Division replaced by ANG AH-64.
No change for AH-64 number always 24 by Bat.

12 MQ-1C in a company directly rattached to Aviaton Brigade in the 10 Divisions, 141 in order.
 
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TE, I think you'll like it:
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... and also this:
Army Designs System to Keep Paratroopers Connected In-Flight
The Army has developed an airborne satellite system that can be loaded onto an
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that allows paratroopers to communicate with voice, video and data while flying to the mission, Army officials said.

Army leaders hope to deploy the system called Enroute Mission Command Capability, or EMC 2, by 2017.

“EMC 2 brings high speed data to the upper echelon of the Global Response Force. It brings a number of services with it including voice, video, data, teleconferencing, chat and mission command implications,” said Lt. Col. Joel Babbitt, product manager for
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The mobile, airborne satellite network is a new extension of the Army’s Warfighter Information Network-Tactical, or WIN-T – a ground-based, high-speed radio and satcom network allowing commanders to chat, view digital maps and exchange data between forward bases and while on-the-move in vehicles.

The technology is initially slated for the Global Response Force, a brigade-strong rapidly deployable unit designed to reach anywhere in the world within 96 hours of being notified. The unit, which has been used in many conflicts to include the first Gulf War in 1991 and other conflicts since, consists of a portion of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division.

“This allows them to do dynamic planning while they are in route to an objective,” Babbitt said.

“They get on a plane and fly somewhere between 12 to 20 hours to get to an objective. During that time they have very little data. The transformation we are making is that they will be able to have voice communications along with huge amounts of data,” Babbitt explained.

EMC 2 brings the capability into the cargo section of a C-17 using commercial satellite connections, bringing paratroopers on the move the ability to monitor developments while in transit.

“C-17s today have some limited data capability for the pilots and air command, including navigation and pilot communications back to air operations center,” Babbitt said. “This brings high-speed data to the paratroopers in the cargo section of the plane. The amount of data required for mission command exceeds what the pilots have available to them.”

The EMC 2 technology uses modified Air Force C-17s engineered to operate with AN/PRC-152 wideband networking radio, commercial satellites and the ANW2 waveform.

Babbitt said it is possible the EMC 2 technology will be extended to other airborne units in the Army.
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Block 2 delivered to the Navy in July 2014 and has since undergone testing. In one test event, the system went two for two against a supersonic maneuvering raid, which Raytheon says is the first time a ship-based firing system has accomplished that.

If I understand correctly the last paragraph of this article, it would suggest to me that up and until this block-2, the other ship based systems had not been entirely successful in stopping supersonic maneuvering missiles (in testing).
 
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