The Australian Ministers for Defence and Defence Materiel announced
May 15 that the government of Australia will enter into a Foreign Military
Sales (FMS) planning case with the U.S. Navy for the MQ-4C Triton Unmanned
Aircraft System (UAS). The FMS planning case will help Australian defense
officials assess the applicability of Triton’s capabilities to
their high-altitude, long-endurance UAS for maritime patrol and other
surveillance requirements.
At the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace exhibition 2013,
Navy Recognition exclusively learned that the 6 future Gowind class
Corvettes (Littoral Combat Ship program) will be fitted with 57mm Mark
3 main guns with stealth cupola from BAE Systems Bofors. We also took
the opportunity to get the latest updates on the Malaysian LCS program
from Anuar Murad, Director of Defence and Security at Boustead Heavy
Industry Corporation.
The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator (UCAS-D) completed
its first ever carrier-based catapult launch from USS George H.W. Bush
(CVN 77) off the coast of Virginia today. "Today we saw a small,
but significant pixel in the future picture of our Navy as we begin
integration of unmanned systems into arguably the most complex warfighting
environment that exists today: the flight deck of a nuclear-powered
aircraft carrier," said Vice Adm. David Buss, commander, Naval
Air Forces, the Navy's "Air Boss".
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