The Trident IID5LE2 is expected to enter service in the 2030s on Columbia-class and future Royal Navy submarines as a virtually new long-range ballistic missile.
Hegseth, a former Army National Guard officer turned Fox News host, has turned into one of the more controversial nominations by Trump ahead of next week’s inauguration.
Govini estimates that more than 20,000 individual parts used by the Pentagon are impacted by the export controls, affecting more than 1,000 weapons systems.
Northrop Grumman started developing the new motor in response to a U.S. Navy request for an upper-stage rocket for an “extended-range, hypersonic capability.”
The contract for the Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) Recapitalization program calls for Northrop to deliver the first three engineering and manufacturing aircraft.
The U.S. Army and Navy have conducted a successful, end-to-end test of the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon as they look to field similar versions of the system.
U.S. operators paused most Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey operations after a material failure caused one of the tiltrotor aircraft to make a precautionary landing.
The U.S. Air Force and Navy should more closely collaborate on variants of their next-generation fighters instead of further splitting apart as development continues, an influential senator argues.