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US Navy’s amphibious transport dock Portland (LPD 27) passes acceptance trials

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HII Cuts First Steel for Aircraft Carrier Enterprise (CVN 80) at Newport News Shipbuilding

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) cut a 35-ton steel plate at its Newport News Shipbuilding division to kick off advance construction of the aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN 80). The steel plate will become part of the foundation of Enterprise, the third

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and the ninth U.S. Navy ship to bear the legendary name.

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[Jura The idiot]

Jun 6, 2017

now I noticed New Bonus: $455K Over 13 Years for Air Force Fighter Pilots
source is Military.com

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and now

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Eager to stem the flow of Air Force pilots chasing bigger paychecks and cushier gigs with America’s airlines,

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announced today the service is increasing what used to be called flight pay for the first time since 1999.

US airlines hired 4,000 pilots last year, many of them former military pilots. Wilson said officers will now get $1,000 a month, up from $850 and enlisted will get $600 up from $400 a month. It looks as if the pay is going up because the Air Force just isn’t retaining as many pilots as it had expected to. The service, Wilson said. will also try to recruit up to 25 former military pilots for one-year contracts to serve on critical rated staff positions. Many staff jobs require rated pilots to understand the technicalities they deal with.

Wilson also named Brig. Gen. Michael G. Koscheski as head of the Aircrew Crisis Task Force. Assigning a general officer is an indication, along with the task force’s name, that the Air Force is beginning to get really worried about pilot retention and that the effort needs clearer focus.

Intriguingly, Wilson said the service’s attempts to improve drone pilot retention were on track and that no new measures were needed.

Since it is late August and there isn’t much news (aside from all that foreign stuff dealing with North Korea, Venezuela, China and ships hitting ships) Wilson also mentioned the “possibility” of a follow-on to the Light Attack Experiment, presuming the Air Force decides to go ahead with the program that isn’t na official program. It would involve a “combat experiment” similar to Combat Dragon II in Iraq that involved the Vietnam-era OV-10.

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I hope they will find that missing service member. It didn't say whether it was a Army Ranger, Special Forces or Navy Seal member.

U.S. Black Hawk helicopter crashes off Yemen, one service member missing

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Black Hawk helicopter crashed off the coast of Yemen on Friday during a training mission and a search was under way for one U.S. service member, the U.S. military said.

U.S. Central Command said in a statement that five other service members aboard the aircraft had been rescued after the crash, which took place about 20 miles (32 km) off the southern coast of Yemen at 7 p.m. (16000 GMT).

A U.S. official told Reuters that the cause of the crash was under investigation.

"When the incident took place the helicopter was not very high above the water," CENTCOM spokesman Colonel John Thomas said.

The United States has been carrying out air strikes against al Qaeda in Yemen, with at least 80 launched since the end of February.

A small number of ground raids using U.S. Special Operations forces have also taken place, including one in January which resulted in the death of a U.S. Navy Seal.

There have been a number of aviation mishaps involving U.S military aircraft in the past few months.

The U.S. Coast Guard recently said that it had suspended its search off Hawaii for five Army aviators missing since their Black Hawk helicopter crashed earlier this month.

In April, a Black Hawk U.S. Army helicopter crashed on a Maryland golf course, killing one crewmember and seriously injuring two others.

Last month, a military transport plane crash killing 16 service members including elite special operations forces in northern Mississippi.

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Everything You Need To Know About The USAF's New Nuclear Cruise Missile Program

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AGM-86

 

[Jura The idiot]

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yeah the real world

 

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Oregon ANG F-15C with special painting !

 

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1/3 million the fighter cheaper

 

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Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Huntington Ingalls Industries has started advance construction work on the U.S. Navy's third Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier.

The company's Newport News Shipbuilding division kicked off the effort on Thursday with the ceremonial cutting of a 35-ton steel plate of the Enterprise, CVN 80, under an advance-fabrication contract awarded earlier in the year.

The Navy expects to make an award for the ship's detail design and construction next year.

"With this ship, we will 'boldly go where no one has gone before,'" Newport News Shipbuilding President Jennifer Boykin said in a news release. "She will be built using digital technology rather than traditional paper work packages and drawings. We will build more of this ship indoors, in new facilities so that our people have more opportunities to work under cover and out of the weather.

"CVN 80 will revolutionize how we build ships, just as her predecessor, CVN 65 -- the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier -- revolutionized our industry."

CVN 65 is the now-decommissioned USS Enterprise.

U.S. Olympic gold medalists Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky participated in the steel-cutting ceremony.

Ford-class carriers, which will replace Nimitz-class vessels, feature new nuclear power plants, electromagnetic catapults, improved weapons movement and an enhanced flight-deck capabilities.

The second Ford-class carrier, John F. Kennedy, is currently under construction, with more than half of its structural units already erected, Newport News Shipbuilding said.

GREAT to see another USS Enterprise start building. I hope I live to see her launched and go on trials.