All articles by Garrett Reim – Page 63
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USAF selects three bases to station the future B-21 fleet
The US Air Force plans to station its future Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider fleet at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas; Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota; and Whiteman AFB, Missouri starting in the mid-2020s.
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Insitu launches ScanEagle3 without ITAR restrictions
Boeing-owned Insitu used the annual AUVSI gathering to unveil its ScanEagle3 unmanned air vehicle.
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AeroVironment partners with FlightWave to add VTOL to future UAVs
AeroVironment has signed an agreement with FlightWave to add vertical take-off and landing capabilities to its future unmanned aircraft, the company announced on 1 May.
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Airbus Aerial signs DroneBase to provide on-demand low-altitude imagery
Airbus Aerial has signed an agreement with drone services marketplace DroneBase to provide low-altitude aerial imagery on demand.
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USAF teaching dogfighting to small autonomous drones
The US Air Force Academy is attempting to teach autonomous unmanned air vehicles when to perform combat manoeuvres used by fighter pilots to counter potential swarms of adversarial UAVs.
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Textron unveils thrust-vectoring X5-55 VTOL drone
Textron Systems unveiled its X5-55 vertical take-off and landing engineering testbed at the AUVSI Xponential show in Denver, Colorado, on 1 May.
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Bell to demonstrate Autonomous POD Transport to US military
Bell Helicopter plans to demonstrate its Autonomous POD Transport, a tail-sitting vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicle, to several branches of the US military, including the Marine Corps, in the "late summer or early fall".
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ANALYSIS: Boeing pitches doubling navy's EA-18G Growler fleet
Stretched thinly by escort jamming responsibilities not only for its native US Navy, but also for the US Air Force and soon the US Marine Corps, the nation's 160-strong fleet of Boeing EA-18G Growlers may need to grow. That is the belief of the type's manufacturer, which is eyeing a ...
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Sierra Nevada and Textron to jointly bid again for Army aircraft
Sierra Nevada and Textron reaffirmed their commitment to jointly bid on the US Army's Fixed-Wing Utility Aircraft programme using a new variant of the Beechcraft King Air 350 even though that aircraft was rejected in September 2017 by the service.
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Boeing completes final FAA test on KC-46 tanker programme
Boeing’s KC-46 tanker programme completed all required Supplemental Type Certificate flight tests for the Federal Aviation Administration following a successful refueling and communications flight with a C-17 cargo plane.
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US senators introduce bill to block F-35 delivery to Turkey
A bi-partisan group of US senators introduced a bill to prevent the transfer of the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II to Turkey.
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Northrop Grumman to develop algorithms to counter fast-changing enemy radar
Northrop Grumman was awarded a $7.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by the US Navy to develop machine learning algorithms to help the EA-18G Growler’s electronic warfare systems pin down and jam fast-changing enemy radar signals.
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F-35 deployment to Japan hit with sustainment problems
Since the Marine Corps’ deployment of the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II to Air Station Iwakuni, Japan in January 2017 the aircraft has been hit with an assortment of sustainment problems.
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USAF pushing to rapidly develop two hypersonic weapons but can’t predict field date
In response to progress from China and Russia, the US Air Force is pushing to rapidly develop hypersonic cruise missiles in coordination with the other services, but can’t predict when those missiles will be deployed.
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USAF sets evaluation criteria for second phase of light attack experiment
After deciding to forgo a combat demonstration, the US Air Force is moving forward with phase two of its light-attack aircraft experiment, which will examine sustainment requirements, networking with allies’ platforms and flying costs of two propeller-driven aircraft: Textron Aviation's Beechcraft AT-6 Wolverine and Sierra Nevada/Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucano.
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ANALYSIS: Vanilla Aircraft eyes 10-day flight and first customer
Ten years after leaving stable jobs at major aerospace manufacturers and thousands of engineering hours later, the founding team of Vanilla Aircraft is on the verge of testing their vision of a long-endurance, diesel engine-powered drone. The company plans to fly its VA001 without refuelling for more than 10 days ...
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State Department clears $1.2 billion sale of Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawks to Mexico
The State Department cleared the possible sale of eight Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to Mexico for $1.2 billion on 19 April.
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USAF eyes more orders as B-21 finishes preliminary design review
Northrop Grumman has finished preliminary design review of its B-21 Raider stealth bomber.
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Trump Administration relaxes policy on armed UAV exports
The Trump Administration loosened restrictions on the marketing and sale of armed unmanned air vehicles by US aerospace manufacturers to foreign nations on 19 April.
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USAF awards Lockheed Martin $928 million contract for hypersonic cruise missile
Huntsville, Alabama-based Lockheed Martin Space will develop the US Air Force’s first hypersonic cruise missile under a new contract awarded on 18 April.