[mafets]

Eu acho que o conceito por detrás deste navio é muito interessante.

Concordo. Até porque se trata de uma base de operações para os MH-53 e respectivos equipamento de desminagem.

The Marine Corps' most unique aircraft is going to get a bigger punch.

A Marine Corps planning document shows that officials want to arm the MV-22B Osprey with more weapons so the aircraft can support the service's new crisis response forces that carry out missions like embassy evacuations.
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/military/tech/2014/11/23/armed-osprey-mv22b-weapons-marine-corps-aviation-plan/19325051/?sf33985746=%5B%271%27%5D

Já vão tarde. Aliás, se o Exercito tivesse adquirido o Osprey e fizesse a mesma coisa, se calhar encarava-se a retirada dos A-10 de forma diferente.

M240 machine gun mounted on V-22 loading ramp with a view of Iraq landscape

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[HSMW]

[mafets]

http://news.usni.org/2014/12/10/omnibus-spending-bill-includes-money-15-growlers-12th-san-antonio

The $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill from Congress includes $1.46 billion for 15 Boeing EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft and $1 billion to start work on a 12th San Antonio-class (LPD-17) amphibious warship, according to a summary of the bill released late Tuesday.

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[mafets]

http://www.helis.com/database/news/airasia_sampson

US Navy, December 30, 2014 - YOKOSUKA, Japan – USS Sampson (DDG 102) is supporting the ongoing Indonesian-led search and recovery operations for the downed AirAsia flight QZ8501 and assisted in locating the crash debris field yesterday.

At the request of the Indonesian government, Sampson arrived on station in the Java Sea in the early afternoon on Dec. 30 and began assisting in the search. The ship’s MH-60R search and rescue helicopters were launched to assist in the search efforts and the crews, working with multiple Indonesian assets, discovered debris late on the 30th.

The ship and her helicopters are still on station and continuing to search in close coordination with Indonesian authorities.

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http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/feb/07/lewis-puller-ship-christen-marine-nassco/2/?#article-copy

The first two Mobile Landing Platform ships — the Montford Point and John Glenn — feature docking areas that make it comparatively easy to load and unload landing craft with troops and equipment. Both ships were built at NASSCO, the last remaining large shipbuilder on the West Coast.

With the Puller, the design was modified to handle significant operations by helicopters and to berth hundreds of people.

“The first two (Mobile Landing Platform ships) are basically transfer stations for troops and equipment,” said Eric Wertheim, an analyst at the U.S. Naval Institute in Annapolis, Md.

“The third — the Puller — is much more of a mobile staging base that can operate in international waters without permission from other countries,” he added. “This allows us to economize our forces. You don’t want to keep something mobile and valuable like an amphibious assault ship in an area to do mine-countermeasures work. You can do that sort of long term work from a staging base, which also can be used to help fight piracy or to handle supplies during a humanitarian mission.”

The Navy hired NASSCO to build the Montford Point and John Glenn in 2011, when the company was laying off workers due to a lack of contracts to build commercial tankers and product carriers. That contract was worth at least $744 million.

It was soon followed by a contract for the Puller, which cost almost $500 million.

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[Cabeça de Martelo]

Pode ser feio, mas eu acho este projecto muito interessante.

[Menacho]

[mafets]

http://www.aereo.jor.br/2015/03/27/entra-ano-sai-ano-e-o-f-5-nao-sai-da-usn/

O Jacksonville Business Journal noticiou, em 26 de março, que a Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. de St. Augustine (Flórida – EUA) recebeu uma modificação no valor de 42 milhões de dólares de um contrato, previamente concedido, para serviços de manutenção e apoio da frota de 44 jatos F-5 Tiger II operados pela Marinha dos EUA (USN).

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[Crypter]

[Cabeça de Martelo]

Last IOC in Marine infantry experiment drops female officers
By Hope Hodge Seck, Staff writer

  http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/m ... /25418867/

[P44]

[P44]

Fincantieri to Build The Other Two Ships Plus One Option for the US Navy's LCS Program
 
FINCANTIERI in partnership with Lockheed Martin Corporation, announces that its subsidiary Marinette Marine Corporation (MMC) has signed a contract modification for one fully funded Littoral Combat Ship (LCS 21) along with advanced procurement funding for another ship (LCS 23) for the US Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program. Furthermore the contract modification also includes a priced option for one additional ship, LCS 25, to be funded in 2016. The total value of the award for Fincantieri is approximately USD 232 million.


LCS 1, USS Freedom during high speed trials. Picture: Lockheed Martin
          
The US Congress has approved total funding for LCS 21 and, for LCS 23, has approved funding for advanced procurement that allows the cost and schedule of the final block buy option to be maintained, with total funding for this latter vessel anticipated by 31 December 2015.
These ships are the last 2 units of the 10 Freedom class vessels within the LCS program, awarded in 2010 to MMC through Fincantieri’s partnership with the US-based defense contractor, Lockheed Martin Corporation.

The other 8 vessels are currently under construction at MMC’s shipyard. “Milwaukee” (LCS 5) was launched in 2013, and is planned to be delivered to the US Navy in the summer of 2015, and “Detroit” (LCS 7) was launched in 2014. “Little Rock” (LCS 9) and “Sioux City” (LCS 11) are under construction, with the LCS 9 launch planned for this summer. The keel of “Wichita” (LCS 13) was laid in February 2015, while “Billings” (LCS 15), “Indianapolis” (LCS 17) and the yet to be named LCS 19 are all three in the early stages of construction.

The LCS program is one of the US Navy’s main shipbuilding programs and relates to a new generation of mid-sized multirole vessels, designed for surveillance activities and coastal defense for deep water operations as well as capabilities for addressing asymmetrical threats such as mines, silent diesel submarines and fast surface ships.

[Menacho]

[lexivia]

Link de notícia sobre a possível dependência dos porta-aviões na US Navy
http://www.businessinsider.com/navy-captain-us-should-rethink-aircraft-carriers-2015-4

[mafets]

USS Hull (DD-945) a Forrest Sherman class destroyer which had an 8inch gun (203 mm) in front, the only modern destroyer to carry such a gun. The effective range was 29,260m

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?177337-World-Wide-Navies/page68

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