It's been a rough couple of weeks for U.S. defense contractors, in the military shipbuilding space in particular. For the ...

The United States spends vastly more on its military than any of its enemies, but that has not made us secure from the most destructive weapons on the planet: nuclear-armed ballistic missiles. In fact ...

The Trident II nuclear missile, used since the end of the Cold War, will have its service life extended until 2084 through a ...

The RAN guided missile detroyer HMAS Perth (II) is participating in operations with the US Seventh Fleet, off the coast of North Vietnam. Here R64952 Marine Engineer (ME) Barry Maxwell Mitchell, of ...

The Defense Department has formally advanced the acquisition plan for the next life extension of the Trident II D5 missile, awarding Lockheed Martin a $383 million contract for design and development ...

The company will also invest in new production facilities to service the ongoing need for the D5LE2. The Trident II D5 Life Extension (D5LE2) missile, as the upgraded version will be called, will be ...

The need for both the Tanjung Dato and the new OPV from Mitsubishi comes as the result of a shift in naval policy in ...

SYDNEY — North Korea’s test launch of a “strategic” underwater-launched cruise missile within a week of President Donald Trump’s inauguration brought back into the spotlight a key ...

A Cold War nuclear missile will remain in service for a total of 94 years thanks to a US$383 million US Navy contract, with Lockheed Martin to modernize the submarine-launched Trident II missile ...

The Trident II D5 Life Extension 2 (D5LE2) will be carried by the US Navy’s Columbia-class submarines through to 2084.

The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a $383 million cost-plus-incentive-fee and cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to the existing Lockheed Martin contract for development of the next generation of ...