All articles by James Drew – Page 28

  • Boeing Phantom Phoenix satellite
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    Boeing, Pentagon discussing space-based hyperspectral sensor options

    19 May 2015

    Boeing says it is in discussions with the US government about deploying a space-based hyperspectral imaging sensor several years after the air force started flying Raytheon’s Airborne Cueing and Exploitation System-Hyperspectral, or ACES-Hy, system tactically on an MQ-1 Predator UAV.

  • Israel Apache thumb
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    US approves $1.9bn munitions sale to Israel

    19 May 2015

    The US State Department has approved a massive arms sale to Israel for a variety of munitions including the joint direct attack munition, laser-guided paveway, small diameter bomb, hellfire missile and advanced medium-range air-to-air missile in a potential deal worth an estimated $1.9 billion to domestic arms suppliers.

  • super hornet
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    Boeing encouraged by possible US Navy, Kuwait Super Hornet deals

    19 May 2015

    The head of Boeing’s defence business says 12 more Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet orders in fiscal 2016 plus a near-term sale to Kuwait would keep the combat jet’s production line in St Louis, Missouri, open through 2018.

  • mopbomb
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    Boeing expects more Massive Ordnance Penetrator orders

    18 May 2015

    ​Boeing’s weapons business expects to see additional orders of its Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) “in the near term” as the US Air Force continues to modify and evolve the 30,000-pound bunker munition to destroy fortified and deeply buried targets.

  • Phantom Eye hi-res
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    Phantom Works exploring laser-carrying stratospheric UAVs

    18 May 2015

    The president of Boeing Phantom Works sees a future for the group's stratospheric Phantom Eye UAV in carrying solid-state lasers for high-altitude sensing and communications missions and then possibly missile defence some time in the next 20 years.

  • F-15E - SDB II - Raytheon
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    ​Raytheon’s Small Diameter Bomb II approved for production, deployment

    15 May 2015

    The Pentagon has given Milestone C approval to Raytheon’s Small Diameter Bomb II programme, moving the tri-mode seeker weapon to production and deployment with the US Air Force on the F-15E Strike Eagle.

  • textron scorpion at-6
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    ​USAF student test pilots trial Textron’s Scorpion and AT-6

    14 May 2015

    US Air Force student test pilots recently trialed Textron AirLand’s Scorpion jet and the Beechcraft AT-6 light attack turboprop, conducting 12 flights in the Scorpion and seven with the AT-6 during a week-long visit to companies’ facilities in Wichita, Kansas.

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    USAF nominates JASSM missile to host new computer-killing weapon

    14 May 2015

    ​The head of the Air Force Research Laboratory has nominated Lockheed Martin’s stealthy, long-range Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile as the optimal air vehicle to carry a new computer-killing electronic attack payload known as CHAMP, or Counter-electronics High-powered microwave Advanced Missile Project.

  • USAF next-gen bomber
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    New bomber on track despite possible $460M cut, USAF says

    14 May 2015

    The two-star general in charge of the US Air Force’s nuclear mission says the Long-Range Strike Bomber programme is “going exceedingly well” and meeting its major milestones despite a four-month delay to downselecting a prime contractor.

  • NGAD Air dominance fighter - (c) Boeing
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    ​Lockheed not ditching agile fighter designs

    13 May 2015

    Lockheed Martin says it too early to discount highly maneuverable fighter aircraft designs for future US Air Force and Navy warplanes, even as advances in long-range air-to-air missile technology makes dogfights less likely.

  • Global Hawk U-2 - USAF
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    Northrop to receive $4bn worth of Global Hawk work through 2020

    12 May 2015

    The US Air Force plans to award Northrop Grumman contracts valued at $4 billion to sustain and modernize the RQ-4 Global Hawk over the next five years as the high-flying unmanned aircraft emerges from the shadow of potential retirement into a normalised defence programme.