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The stop acceptance order doesn t affect other Littoral Combat Ships from rival shipmaker Austal.
The U.S. Navy is refusing to accept delivery of additional Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) from defense contractor Lockheed Martin. The Navy has identified a defect with the ship that has led to at least two breakdowns among
Freedom-class ships, and the service won t take any new ships until the defect is fixed.
The defect is yet another setback for the LCS program, one of the most troubled Navy shipbuilding programs in recent memory.
The problem,
U.S. Naval Institute News reports, is a flaw in the bearings system that links the Rolls-Royce MT30 gas turbine engines to the Colt-Pielstick diesel engines. The two engines combined can push a
DARPA
The Pentagon s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is set to begin building the first OpFires intermediate-range missile.
OpFires will allow the U.S. Army to strike time-sensitive targets up to 1,000 miles away.
The missile’s development is possible because of the end of the INF Treaty on nuclear weapons.
The Pentagon s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is preparing to build a working copy of the new OpFires hypersonic missile. OpFires, destined for the U.S. Army, will give the service the ability to strike targets with a fleeting window of opportunity, covering the weapon’s 1,000-mile range in 20 minutes.
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The tank would end more than 100 years of all-British tanks.
The British Army invented the tank in order to break the stalemate of World War I.
The British Army’s next tank could be a joint effort with France and Germany. The U.K. is in discussions to replace the current Challenger II main battle tank (seen above) with a joint tank designed to replace French and German tanks in the mid-2030s. All three countries would fund and field the notional tank, dubbed “Eurotank.”
British Army Mark I tank in action, World War I, 1918.
A family in Vietnam dug up a one-ton shell from the battleship USS New Jersey. Fortunately, it was a dud, but it still packed 150 pounds of high explosive.