Raytheon expects key SPY-6 contract for destroyer backfits in early 2023

Raytheon expects key SPY-6 contract for destroyer backfits in early 2023
Raytheon expects key SPY-6 contract for destroyer backfits in early 2023

The Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are expected to receive the SPY-6(V)4 radar.

Top Tester Tells Navy To Test Carrier, Destroyer Defenses With Real Missiles & Explosions

Top Tester Tells Navy To Test Carrier, Destroyer Defenses With Real Missiles & Explosions
Top Tester Tells Navy To Test Carrier, Destroyer Defenses With Real Missiles & Explosions

You’d expect the nation’s top weapons tester to be a stickler about testing. But there’s “rigorous testing” and then there’s “let’s shoot cruise missiles at you and see what happens.” It’s not that the Navy is wimpy about testing. The service conducts “full-ship shock trials” like the USS Roosevelt test pictured above, where it sets off a…

Why America Needs Aircraft Carriers

Why America Needs Aircraft Carriers
Why America Needs Aircraft Carriers

The Navy’s aircraft carrier programs are once again at the vortex of intense scrutiny and debate, fueled by strategic ambiguity, questions about spending billions of dollars for a single ship during a period of painfully tight budgets, and uncertainty whether advanced technologies and systems will deliver the “goods.” As well, carrier critics point to supposed…

F-35 Total Costs Soar to $1.5 Trillion; Lockheed Defends Program

PENTAGON: Lockheed Martin scrambled today to explain the latest increases in the Joint Strike Fighter’s costs, arguing that the three versions of the aircraft “will be comparable to or lower than that of the seven” older airplanes it will replace. Overall, the F-35 will cost an appreciably impressive $1.5 trillion over the 55 years it…