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Japan requests largest defense budget ever
The Japanese MoD on August 31 requested $52.9 billion (7.7 trillion yen) for fiscal year 2024, its largest ever defense budget request.
31 August 2023
The Japanese MoD on August 31 requested $52.9 billion (7.7 trillion yen) for fiscal year 2024, its largest ever defense budget request.
The U.S. Navy commissioned the USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32), powered by two GE LM2500 gas turbines that include GE’s lightweight composite gas turbine enclosure.
Day 1 at the Surface Navy Association (SNA) 2023 National Symposium. We covered Thales CAPTAS-4 for FFG-62, Lockheed Martin navalized Patriot, L3Harris SPEIR
Kongsberg press release The order is related to the OTH WS framework agreement announced 31 May 2018 with a total cumulative scope of BNOK 7.8
The US Navy announced it has exercised the option to have Fincantieri build the third Constellation-class guided-missile frigate, USS Chesapeake (FFG-64).
The MQ-8C Fire Scout, made its second operational deployment, and first deployment to the Indo-Pacific Area of Responsibility aboard USS Jackson (LCS-6) …
The U.S. Navy’s Large Surface Combatant (LSC) force consists of three destroyers: DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, DDG 1000 Zumwalt destroyers and the upcoming next-generation destroyer program called DDG(X)…
The aero derived gas turbines powering the FREMM and FFG62 ships, and configured for marine applications will be protected by Parker altair® Neptune filtration systems.Â
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) released its annual report on military and security developments involving China, commonly referred to as the China Military Power Report. The report says the Chinese Navy is now the largest in the world with 355 ships.
The CRS’s October 2021 FFG-62 frigate report provided the U.S. Navy’s answer and the deciding evidence on settling for 32 VLS cells per new frigate instead of the suggested 48.
