Aircraft Carrier John F. Kennedy Half Complete

U.S. shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries said the structure of nuclear-powered aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy is now 50 percent complete. The second Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier CVN 79 grew about 70 feet in length with the addition of the lower stern, which was recently lifted into place at HII's Newport News Shipbuilding division.

Noble Group Gets Debt Lifeline

The striggling commodities giant Noble Group has secured a 120-day extension for its USD 400 million credit facility from June 20, 2017. According to Reuters, Noble Group, has over 100 vessels on charter, confirmed that its lenders had agreed to push back a repayment deadline by four months and said it continued to be in talks with potential investors about the sale of an interest in the company or parts of its business.

Norsk Titanium and thyssenkrupp to Jointly Explore Industrial Cooperation Opportunities

In December 2016, Norsk Titanium and thyssenkrupp Marine Systems signed a Memorandum of Understanding for industrial cooperation supporting thyssenkrupp Marine Systems' effort to replace the four Ula class submarines currently in service with the Norwegian Navy by modern submarines based on the HDW class 212A design. As titanium is an important material for this new submarine generation, Norsk Titanium's revolutionary Rapid Plasma DepositionTM technology will provide significant cost and schedule advantages, disrupting traditional manufacturing processes.

U.S. Coast Guard interviews container ship crew after warship collision

The United States Coast Guard will on Tuesday start interviewing the crew of a Philippines-flagged container ship which collided with a U.S. warship in Japanese waters killing seven American sailors. The U.S. coast guard investigation is one several into the incident on Saturday involving the guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald and the much larger ACX Crystal.

NSW man was arrested after a submachine gun was found

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Justices could take up high-stakes fight over electoral maps

In an era of deep partisan division, the Supreme Court could soon decide whether the drawing of electoral districts can be too political. A dispute over Wisconsin's Republican-drawn boundaries for the state legislature offers Democrats some hope of cutting into GOP electoral majorities across the United States.

Congress insisted the Air Force keep the A-10, so now the Air Force wants Congress to pay up

US Air Force members work on an electronic error on an A-10 Thunderbolt on the flight line at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, April 25, 2007. Congressional efforts to keep the A-10 Thunderbolt in service appeared to win out earlier this year, when the well-known aircraft was included in the fiscal year 2018 budget.

Search for 7 Navy sailors ends after bodies found on ship

The search for seven U.S. Navy sailors who went missing after their destroyer collided with a container ship off the Japanese coast was called off after several bodies were found Sunday in the ship's flooded compartments, including sleeping quarters. Navy divers found "a number of" bodies in the USS Fitzgerald, a day after the destroyer collided with a Philippine-flagged container ship four times its size, said Vice Adm.

Admiral Praises USS Fitzgerald’s Crew, Announces Investigations

The response of the crew of the severely damaged USS Fitzgerald "was swift and effective, and I want to point out -- as we stand by the ship -- how proud I am of them," Navy Vice Adm. Joseph P. Aucoin , commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet , said today at a press conference in front of the stricken ship that's now moored in Yokosuka, Japan.

Crews search for missing diver

Crews from the U.S. Coast Guard and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are searching for a diver that went missing in the Gulf of Mexico Saturday. An official from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says the reports about a missing diver about 20 miles south of Cabbage Point first came in around 1 pm.