All articles by Garrett Reim – Page 64
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Dynetics wins DARPA’s Gremlins programme
Dynetics was selected for phase 3 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Gremlins programme, an effort to launch and retrieve unmanned aerial vehicles from an aircraft.
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DOD reveals F-35 multiyear procurement strategy to start in 2021
The Department of Defense has quietly revealed a long-term plan for signing a series of cost-saving, multi-year procurement contracts to buy a total of nearly 2,000 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II starting in Fiscal 2021.
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F-22 Raptor skids across runway at Navy’s Top Gun school
A Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor skidded on its belly across the runway of NAS Fallon near Reno, Nevada on 16 April after a takeoff mishap.
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ANALYSIS: Sikorsky pressing on with S-97 in pursuit of Army scout replacement
According to test pilot lore, when Sikorsky tried flying its first advancing blade concept on the experimental S-69 rotorcraft – a system with two stacked blades rotating in opposite directions– the machine jackhammered so roughly that it rattled loose a gold crown in the pilot’s mouth. Sikorsky cannot confirm that ...
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General Atomics demos Wii-like deck-handling system for MQ-25
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems demonstrated aircraft carrier deck-handling controls for its MQ-25 tanker bid using a pair of motion-sensing director wands and an Avenger unmanned aerial vehicle as a stand-in for its yet-to-be-built prototype.
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JASSM-ER makes combat debut against Syrian chemical weapons facilities
US, French and British aircraft fired several cruise missiles at chemical weapons research and production facilities in Syria on 13 April, with the action including the combat debut of the Lockheed Martin AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile Extended-Range (JASSM-ER).
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Marine Corps experimenting with sharing F-35’s data with soldiers
The US Marine Corps is experimenting with several ways to provide soldiers on the ground a link to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance information gathered by the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II and other unmanned aircraft on a tablet computer.
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AeroVironment demonstrates drone guiding missile attack
AeroVironment demonstrated the ability to use an unmanned aerial vehicle’s camera and sensors to automatically guide a missile drone into a fast-moving unmanned boat.
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Pentagon refuses delivery of F-35s over repair dispute
The US Department of Defence is refusing delivery of F-35 Lightning IIs over a dispute with manufacturer Lockheed Martin about who should pay for repair costs to fix a production error on the aircraft.
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Vice Adm Winter downplays reorganisation of F-35 programme
Vice Admiral Mat Winter downplayed the reorganization of his office, the F-35 Lightning Joint Programme Office, in remarks at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition in National Harbor, Maryland on 11 April.
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Boeing gets $24m for extra Air Force One design work
The US Air Force awarded Boeing a contract worth $24.1 million for additional design work on Air Force One.
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Boeing's 100th P-8 enters final assembly
The hundredth Boeing P-8 entered final assembly in Renton, Washington in March.
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JPO to hand F-35 management to services
The Department of Defence plans to eventually divide management of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II programme between two offices: one managed by the US Navy and Marine Corps, and another led by the US Air Force. The Joint Programme Office, which currently handles the fighter programme, will ultimately be ...
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Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet production line busy until 2025
Boeing said its F/A-18 Super Hornet production line has work until 2025 thanks to purchases of dozens of aircraft by the US Navy and the Kuwaiti Air Force – a change in fortunes for a platform that was supposed to be obsolete by now.
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Boeing receives first Super Hornet for service life modification
The first F/A-18 Super Hornet scheduled to undergo service life modification arrived at Boeing’s St. Louis, Missouri facilities on 5 April.
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Phantom Works selects Rolls-Royce turbofan to power MQ-25 bid
Boeing’s MQ-25 unmanned aerial vehicle prototype is powered by a Rolls-Royce AE 3007N turbofan, Boeing disclosed on 5 April.
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Boeing tankers refuel each other in KC-46 milestone test
Boeing announced that its KC-46 Pegasus aerial tanker programme completed its fuel on-load testing, part of its overall Supplemental Type Certificate, by successfully transferring 146,000 pounds of fuel from one KC-46 to another KC-46 during flight.
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Boeing awarded contract to deliver 28 Super Hornets to Kuwait
Boeing was awarded a contract worth up to $1.17 billion to produce and deliver 22 F/A-18E and 6 F/A-18F Super Hornets for the government of Kuwait by 2022, the US Defence Department announced on 30 March.
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US Navy remotely lands F/A-18 Super Hornet on carrier deck
Naval officers aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln demonstrated for the first time the ability to remotely take control of an aircraft and land it on an aircraft carrier’s deck.
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Boeing Defense reorganizes by adding two new divisions and eliminating another
Boeing plans to launch two new divisions within its Defense, Space & Security business starting next week – a Commercial Derivative Aircraft division, and a Missile and Weapon Systems division – as part of an ongoing reorganization effort by the business unit’s chief executive, Leanne Caret.