[Lusitano89]

[Cabeça de Martelo]

[Cabeça de Martelo]

[Lusitano89]

[P44]

USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) leaving San Diego. She's headed to HII in Pascagoula, Mississippi to get her guns removed and the Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic weapons system installed. Here's the Navy release:

*"USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) departed San Diego, Aug 1, and will shift its homeport from San Diego to Pascagoula, Mississippi to enter a modernization period and receive technology upgrades including the integration of the Conventional Prompt Strike weapons system. The upgrades will ensure Zumwalt remains one of the most technologically advanced and lethal ships in the U.S. Navy."*

[Lusitano89]

[P44]

The Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Surface Warfare Division (N96) recently approved the service life extension of four Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyers.



USS Ramage (DDG 61), homeported in Norfolk, VA, and USS Benfold (DDG 65), based in Yokosuka, Japan, have been extended by five years to FY 2035 and FY 2036, respectively.



USS Mitscher (DDG 57), also homeported in Norfolk, and USS Milius (DDG 69), homeported out of Yokosuka, have been extended by four years to FY 2034 and FY 2035, respectively.



These extensions follow the March 2023 extension of USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) by five years through FY 2031.The extension puts each destroyer beyong their estimated service life of 35 years.



35 anos pffff....meninos 

[goldfinger]

Ayer, 15 de agosto, HII (Huntington Ingalls Industries) puso en el agua el tercer Clase Arleigh Burke Flight III (y 76º Burke en total😱), futuro DDG128 USS Ted Stevens, que será bautizado el sabado 19 de agosto

[mafets]

LCS,o F35 dos mares (excomungado em 3,2,1) ...   

https://www.naval.com.br/blog/2023/08/17/marinha-dos-eua-desativa-o-navio-de-combate-litoraneo-uss-sioux-city-com-menos-de-5-anos-de-servico/

A Marinha dos EUA desativou o navio de combate litorâneo USS Sioux City (LCS 11), da variante Freedom (LCS), em Mayport, Flórida, depois de menos de cinco anos em serviço.
Comissionado oficialmente em novembro de 2018 em Annapolis, Maryland, o navio foi fabricado pela Fincantieri Marinette Marine em Wisconsin.

Saudações 

[Lusitano89]

[P44]

https://youtube.com/shorts/gw80Gb3CWds?si=s7e1or5m0yT_qa_q

[Get_It]

A USN vai começar uma nova competição para substituir o T-45 e deverá não ter de aterrar num porta-aviões mas tem de ser capaz de aguentar simular uma aterragem num porta-aviões.

- Leonardo/Textron M-346N
- Boeing T-7
- LM T-50N



U.S. Navy Is Steaming Ahead On A New Trainer
(7 de Setembro de 2023)

The U.S. Navy wants to quickly move on from its troubled T-45 Goshawk trainer toward the next-generation Undergraduate Jet Training System, but new requirements for the latter aircraft may slow the replacement process.

For years, the service has debated whether a future trainer—which would also be used for Marine Corps pilots—must be able to operate from a carrier like the T-45 does. Operational aircraft such as the Lockheed Martin F-35 are capable of autolanding on the ship. An Undergraduate Jet Training System (UJTS) request for information (RFI) released in mid-August provides a compromise: The future trainer would not be designed to go to the ship, but would need to be able to endure repeated unflared landings to practice the carrier flight profile.

This would require further engineering and development for the announced candidate aircraft, likely stretching out the program.

"The government assumes the development of [Field Carrier Landing Practice (FCLP)] is the main schedule driver," the RFI states.

While the Navy has trickled out multiple UJTS solicitations in the past five years, service officials say they are now pressing ahead to speed up the replacement. During a panel discussion at the Tailhook Symposium in Sparks, Nevada, on Aug. 26, then-Commander of Naval Air Forces Vice Adm. Kenneth Whitesell, who is retiring, said former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday told the command to "get out of the T-45 as fast as possible."

The RFI calls for an assumed contract award in 2026, for a minimum of 145 aircraft at a full-rate production of 25 per year. This would make the UJTS competition the service's second largest aviation acquisition effort, behind its sixth-generation F/A-XX program.

During the Tailhook Symposium, three competitors for the UJTS were on display, including one previously unannounced industry team.

Textron Aviation Defense and Leonardo are teaming up to offer the M-346N, a modified version of the M-346 operating in several countries including Italy, Poland and Singapore. It is the latest iteration of the M-346 proposed for U.S. services after Leonardo alone offered it for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X program. Textron says it is focusing on M-346N for the training role, while its similar AirLand Scorpion is a possible entrant for other light attack programs.

(...)

Meanwhile, Lockheed Martin displayed the TF-50N, its newest version of the T-50, partnering with Korean Aerospace Industries for the program. Current operators of the T-50 include Indonesia, Iraq, Malaysia, the Philippines, Poland, South Korea and Thailand.

(...)

Lockheed's engineers have been reviewing the Navy’s latest RFI to determine what added work the aircraft would need. Though the requirements for unflared landings and glideslope would put stress on a trainer’s airframe over its lifespan, the company is confident it will meet the Navy’s requirements.

(...)

At the symposium, Boeing displayed a Navy white-and-orange version of its T-7A Red Hawk—the winner of the Air Force’s T-X program, with at least 351 of the aircraft expected for the service. Like its competitors, Boeing says it will refine its aircraft to meet FCLP requirements.

"We plan to work with the U.S. Navy to modify the T-7 to meet the requirements for their Undergraduate Jet Training System," says Donn Yates, Boeing’s executive director  for fighters and trainers business development. "We see this as an opportunity to help define and develop future training needs for the Navy’s next generation of naval aviators."

Other prospective competitors include the Sierra Nevada Corp.'s Freedom, an aircraft it originally partnered with Turkish Aerospace Industries on for the T-X program. The company teased the competition ahead on social media of Tailhook with a photo of the aircraft in the Navy’s signature orange and white.

[continua]

Fonte: https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/us-navy-steaming-ahead-new-trainer

Cumprimentos,

[P44]

Navy Destroyer Looks Significantly Different After Major Upgrade

The SEWIP Block III alters the Arleigh Burke destroyer’s appearance fairly dramatically via huge new extensions onto its superstructure.





https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/navy-destroyer-looks-significantly-different-after-major-upgrade



https://twitter.com/CavasShips/status/1625762244893237248

[Malagueta]

Post
OSINTtechnical e OSINTdefender seguem
Department of Defense 🇺🇸
@DeptofDefense

Every wonder how ships are restocked while at sea?

https://twitter.com/i/status/1706718276309438682
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is resupplied by helicopter while at sea.

[P44]