The U.S. Navy took a further step toward establishing its next-generation Mobile User Objective System satcom constellation with the successful launch of the third satellite by a United Launch Alliance Atlas V on Jan. 20.
Aurora Flight Sciences has filed for a world endurance record following an 80-hr. flight last month by its Orion unmanned aircraft system (UAS). This compares directly with the record of 30.4 hr. set by the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk in 2001.
Before the two-orbit Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) on Dec. 5, engineers had expected temperatures on the capsule’s heat shield to reach almost 4,000F. But thermocouples buried below the surface of the 16.5-ft.-dia. protective shield registered only about 3,500F.
A major operational test series planned for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been abandoned in an attempt to protect the schedule for delivering a fully operational aircraft, according to the just-released fiscal 2014 report on the program from the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test & Evaluation.
In putting together its package to win the vaunted U.S. Navy Air And Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), Raytheon bet it could do the job in rapid time – and so far the contractor has been able to keep the odds in its favor.
Eurojet – the consortium that builds the EJ200 engine for the Eurofighter Typhoon – has agreed to collaborate with Turkish defense electronics firm Aselsan.
To realize its dream of putting laser weapons on its surface warships, the U.S. Navy may have to redesign the vessels, a recent Congressional Research Service (CRS) report says.
The Society of Japanese Aerospace Companies (SJAC) has opened talks with undisclosed foreign counterpart organizations with the aim of supporting Japan’s entry into the arms export market.
The 10-year contract, beginning in April 2016, will see AAR and BIH operating a mixed fleet of upgraded Sikorsky S-61s for logistics and transport missions while the AgustaWestland AW189 will be employed on search-and-rescue (SAR) duties
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Jan. 20-22 — Sixth AHS International Specialists’ Meeting On Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems: Platform Design, Autonomy, Operator Workload Reduction and Network Centric Operations, Chandler, Arizona. For more information go to www.vtol.org/events/unmanned-rotorcraft-systems
Mikhail Pogosyan, general director of Russia’s United Aircraft Company since January 2011, was removed from office on Friday Jan. 16 by the company’s board.
Flight tested in the company’s Boeing 727 test bed, the APG-79(V)X has a slightly smaller antenna to match the volume, power and cooling available in earlier F/A-18 Hornets now equipped with Raytheon’s APG-65 and APG-73 mechanically scanned radars.
