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Spanish Navy’s Seeker UAS Passes Maneuvers Including Live-Fire

The Marine Infantry Brigade (BRIMAR), a part of the Tercio de Armada de Infantería de Marina (Marine Infantry Protection Force), deployed its Seeker aircraft from December 9 to 13 at the San Gregorio national training center in Zaragoza, during the FTX-BRIMAR 21 maneuvers. The Seeker UAS proved a vital asset in the campaign, where intelligence […]

China Builds Missile Targets Shaped Like U.S. Aircraft Carrier, Destroyers in Remote Desert

The Chinese military has built targets in the shape of an American aircraft carrier and other U.S. warships in the Taklamakan desert as part of a new target range complex, according to photos provided to USNI News by satellite imagery company Maxar. The full-scale outline of a U.S. carrier and at least two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers […]

Maritime Situation Awareness System Sets Sail From McQ

Taking advantage of the new Certus machine to machine (M2M) data service Iridium is initiating this year, McQ Inc.’s SonoWatch™ is an autonomous, acoustic lookout system that detects, identifies and determines the navigation meaning of acoustic signals, which provide autonomous collision avoidance to both unmanned and manned watercraft. McQ is providing SonoWatch to a couple […]

Honeywell’s Satellite + Ground Station Tech To Coordinate The Peruvian Navy’s Search + Rescue Ops

Honeywell (NYSE: HON) recently signed an agreement with the Peruvian Navy to enhance their search and rescue capabilities using the company’s next-generation satellite tracking technology. The Navy is tasked with monitoring and performing rescue operations and track and locate important assets including downed planes and missing ships for nearly 6.3 million square kilometers of the […]

Comtech Is Awarded Multi-Million $$$ By U.S. Navy For Satellite Earth Station Equipment

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) has announced that during the firm’s second quarter of fiscal 2021, their Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary— Comtech EF Data Corp., which is part of Comtech’s Commercial Solutions segment — was awarded an $11.4 million delivery order in support of a previously announced $58.8 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (“IDIQ”) contract from the […]

ThinKom Secures Defense Innovation Unit Phased Array Antenna Contract

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has awarded a contract to ThinKom Solutions to test and evaluate one of the company’s Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) aeronautical phased-array antenna systems as a solution for next-generation communications on U.S. Navy ships. Under the seven-month contract, ThinKom is delivering a ThinAir® Ka2517 antenna system for on-board testing to meet U.S. […]