AEGIS

Lockheed Test Fires Army Patriot Missile Using Aegis Combat System

PAC-3 MSE Integrated With Aegis Weapon System Defeats Target In Flight Test. Lockheed Martin Photo

Lockheed Martin performed a successful test of its PAC-3 missile interceptor with a virtual Aegis system, the company announced this week.

The PAC-3 system was launched from an Mk 70 containerized launching system and successfully intercepted a cruise missile, according to a company news release. The test took place at the Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

“These systems could deliver...

https://news.usni.org/2024/05/21/lockheed-test-fires-army-patriot-missile-using-aegis-combat-system

Pyle: Red Sea Operations Demonstrate Importance of Trainers for Surface Community

Sailors train on a navigation simulator at the Mariner Skills Training Center Pacific in San Diego, Calif., on Feb 13, 2023. USNI News Photo

The decade-long $6 billion investment in live, virtual and constructive training for the surface community is paying dividends in the Red Sea, the Navy’s director of surface warfare said Tuesday.

Instead of “figuring out on the fly” how to apply “defense in depth,” as USS Mason (DDG-87) had to do when attacked by two cruise missiles in the Red Sea in 2016,...

https://news.usni.org/2024/05/15/pyle-red-sea-operations-demonstrate-importance-of-trainers-for-surface-community

USS Vella Gulf Becomes First of Five Ticonderoga-Class Cruisers to Decommission This Year

Sailors and former shipmates stand in formation during the guided-missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG-72) decommissioning ceremony, Aug. 4, 2022, in Norfolk, Va. US Navy Photo

Nearly 29 years ago, USS Vella Gulf (CG-72) sat in the waters around Norfolk, Va., waiting to be commissioned into the Navy.

The ship sat in the same waters Thursday, this time for its decommissioning ceremony as its current crew and plankowners said goodbye to the ship.

When Vella Gulf commissioned, every sailor wanted to...

https://news.usni.org/2022/08/05/uss-vella-gulf-becomes-first-of-five-ticonderoga-class-cruisers-to-decommission-this-year

Europe Ports Prepare the Ground for ‘Driverless Ships’

Europe is gearing up for driverless (autonomous) ships, and planning autonomous ports too, writes Andrew Rosenbaum for Cyprus Mail.

Autonomous shipping

The Russian Maritime Register of Shipping said that it has published Guidelines on the classification of maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS).

The recommendations provided in the document are underpinned by R&D, according to Head of the RS Electrical Engineering and Automation Systems Department Vladimir Vikulin.

“Recent developments make...

https://mfame.guru/europe-ports-prepare-the-ground-for-driverless-ships/