The US Department of Defense (DoD) cancelled a flight test scheduled for the US Army's Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) on 6 September, the Pentagon told reporters on 7 September. The flight test scheduled at Cape Canaveral Space Force St.
The UK Royal Navy (RN) has achieved initial operating capability (IOC) for its much-delayed Crowsnest airborne surveillance and control (ASaC) capability. Pictured at the Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose on 5 September is one of two Crowsnes.
British Navy Crowsnest-equipped Merlins deploy on first carrier voyage
By Jamie Hunter | May 6, 2021
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Three of the U.K. Royal Navy’s newly completed Crowsnest Airborne Surveillance and Control System-configured Merlin Mk2 helicopters embarked aboard HMS
Queen Elizabeth in Portsmouth harbor on April 27 in preparation for the Carrier Strike Group 21 deployment.
The first Crowsnest Merlins entered service in March 2021 with 820 Naval Air Squadron at Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose, Cornwall, and they join the Queen Elizabeth Carrier Strike Group (CSG) to act as airborne guardians during the British carrier’s landmark maiden deployment, which commenced May 1. The Merlin Mk2 Crowsnest Airborne Surveillance and Control (known as ASaC) helicopters will fly high above the carrier group to look over the horizon for possible threats, while the sub-hunter Merlins monitor activity beneath the waves.