The Japanese government plans to increase its missile defense systems, the Japanese Defense Minister said Aug. 17 at a joint press availability with Japanese and U.S. government officials.Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera, through an interpreter, said his government “will continue to ...
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Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. John Richardson on Aug. 21 ordered an operational pause in all U.S. fleets around the world following the second collision between an Aegis Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and a civilian ship within three months.Richardson said in a statement that between these ...
The Defense Department relieved Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, commander of the Seventh Fleet, in the wake of two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers colliding with commercial vessels this summer.The Navy announced in a brief statement that Aucoin was relieved by Adm. Scott Swift, commander of U.S. Pacific ...
The U.S. Navy relieved of duty the top three officers of the USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) last Thursday months after the ship collided with a merchant vessel near Japan (Defense Daily, June 19).DDG-62’s commanding officer Cmdr. Bryce Benson, executive officer Cmdr. Sean Babbitt, and command master ...
Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding division redelivered the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Ramage (DDG-61) to the Navy on Monday after completing nine months of overhaul and modernization work.The overhaul and modification work, conducted at HII’s ...
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. John Richardson on Monday ordered an operational pause in all U.S. fleets around the world following the second collision between an Aegis Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and a civilian ship within three months.Richardson said in a statement that between these ...
The Japanese government plans to increase its missile defense systems, the Japanese Defense Minister said Thursday at a joint press availability with Japanese and U.S. government officials.Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera, through an interpreter, said his government “will continue to ...
All Marine Corps aviation units will at some point during the next two weeks suspend flight operations for 24 hours as a result of the Aug. 5 crash of an MV-22 Osprey that killed three Marines.Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert Neller made the announcement Aug. 11 that commanders could ...
Afghan A-29s. The Afghan Air Force (AAF), which currently has 12 Embraer/Sierra Nevada Corp. A-29 Super Tucano light-attack aircraft, is expected to receive seven more A-29s by late 2018, as pilots and maintenance personnel finish their training, according to a recent U.S. Department of Defense ...
All Marine Corps aviation units will at some point during the next two weeks suspend flight operations for 24 hours as a result of the Aug. 5 crash of an MV-22 Osprey that killed three Marines.Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert Neller made the announcement Friday that commanders could ...