Americas

Americas GeoPolitics/ Policy 

Venezuelan Su-30 Fighter Jet “Aggressively Shadowed” U.S. Navy EP-3 Aries II Reconnaissance Aircraft Over Caribbean Sea

July 22, 2019July 22, 2019 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Caribbean, EP-3E ARIES II, Fighter aircraft, Lockheed EP-3, Reconnaissance aircraft, Sukhoi Su-30, U.S. Navy (USN), USA, Venezuela, Venezuelan Air Force

A Venezuelan Air Force Su-30 ‘Flanker’ fighter jet has aggressively shadowed” a U.S. Navy EP-3 Aries II signals reconnaissance aircraft

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Americas Naval 

U.S. Navy’s Newest Attack Submarine Delaware Nears Delivery As First Meals Served

July 22, 2019 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Newport News Shipbuilding, Nuclear attack submarine (SSN), U.S. Navy (USN), USA, USS Delaware (SSN-791), Virginia-class SSN

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) took another step toward delivery of the nuclear-powered fast attack submarine, the future USS Delaware (SSN

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Americas Naval 

U.S. Navy Cruiser USS Normandy Departs Naval Station Norfolk for COMPTUEX

July 21, 2019 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Composite training unit exercise (COMPTUEX), Guided-missile cruiser (CG), Harry S. Truman Strike Group (HSTSG), Naval Station Norfolk, Ticonderoga-class CG, U.S. Navy (USN), USA, USS Normandy (CG-60)

The U.S. Navy Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60) departed Naval Station Norfolk to have their mettle tested before

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Americas Cruise Missiles 

NNSA Achieves Significant Milestone for W80-4 Life Extension Program

July 21, 2019 DP Staff Writer 0 Comments Air-launched cruise missile (ALCM), Long Range Stand Off (LRSO) Missile, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear weapon, Nuclear Weapons Council (NWC) USA, Thermonuclear weapon, U.S. Air Force (USAF), USA, W80 nuclear warhead

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) achieved a significant milestone for the W80-4 Life Extension Program

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Americas Naval 

U.S. Navy Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group Returns Home after Successful Deployment

July 21, 2019 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group, Naval Station Norfolk, U.S. Navy (USN), USA, USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43), USS Kearsarge (LHD-3)

After seven months deployed to the Europe, Africa and the Middle East areas of operation, over 4,500 Kearsarge Amphibious Ready

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Air Americas 

US, UK Perform First Joint F-35A Hot Pit Refueling Training

July 21, 2019 DP Press Releases 0 Comments F-35A Lightning II, Hot refueling, Royal Air Force (RAF), U.S. Air Force (USAF), UK, USA

Airmen assigned to Hill Air Force Base had the opportunity to train the UK Royal Air Force personnel on hot

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Americas Space 

Lockheed Martin Completes NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Capsule for Artemis 1 Mission to the Moon

July 21, 2019 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Human spaceflight, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, USA

Lockheed Martin has completed building the crew module capsule for NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission to

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Americas Misc 

U.S. Navy Ends Search for Sailor Reported Overboard from USS Abraham Lincoln

July 20, 2019 DP Press Releases 0 Comments Arabian Sea, U.S. Navy (USN), USA, USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)

The U.S. Navy has ended its search and rescue efforts for a Sailor, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC)

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Air Americas 

Leonardo’s TH-119 Helicopter Receives FAA IFR Supplemental Type Certification

July 19, 2019 DP Press Releases 0 Comments AgustaWestland AW119 Koala, Helicopter, Leonardo, Leonardo TH-119, TH-XX Advanced Helicopter Training System (AHTS) US Navy, Trainer aircraft, U.S. Navy (USN), USA

Leonardo announced that its TH-119 helicopter received IFR supplemental type certification by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The TH-119 is

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Americas Missiles 

U.S. Army Conducts Operational Test of Joint Air to Ground Missile (JAGM)

July 19, 2019 DP Staff Writer 0 Comments AGM-179 Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM), Air-to-ground missile (AGM), Boeing AH-64 Apache, Eglin AFB, U.S. Army, USA

The U.S. Army conducted firing of its Joint Air to Ground Missile (JAGM) from an AH-64E Apache attack helicopter during

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