The two leading defense prime rivals for hypersonics work, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, said this week they expect Pentagon work toward counter-hypersonics defense systems to ramp up over the next year.
In a world where threats evolve fast and software must evolve faster, Raytheon works closely with warfighters and key partners to test and deploy mission-critical applications at groundbreaking speeds.
From avionics, to sensors, to weapons – see how Raytheon’s technologies are integrated across multiple platforms to give pilots air dominance across the skies.
And systems like sophisticated radars and surface-to-air missile installations are operating in new ways. They are targeting faster, fusing multiple sensors, creating unexpected waveforms and operating at increasingly higher and lower frequencies, where they are harder to detect and jam.
The same technology that guides aviators onto the decks of aircraft carriers in roiling seas can help U.S. Air Force pilots on austere runways in remote regions of the world.
The U.S. Air Force will install automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) position reporting capability on its fleet of 417 Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers beginning in September.
European militaries are poised to welcome the delivery of 326 F-35 fighters in 2019-29 and are continuing to buy Saab Gripens, Dassault Rafales and Eurofighter Typhoons.
Initial trials bringing together the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and Britain’s new HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier have exceeded expectations, senior officers say.
It's not enough to give older planes the best and newest weapons. They also need radars – and that's another way Raytheon is bringing new life to U.S. and allied fourth-generation fighters.
The U.S Army has multiple modernization programs underway, including long-range precision fires, future rotorcraft and tactical UAVs. Listen in as our editors discuss.
Pieces of the complex U.S. hypersonic development jigsaw are coming together as the Pentagon places reliance on heritage design for common-boost glide concept.
The upcoming T-38 replacement decision, future of the Joint Star replacement program, and the F-35’s massive production ramp-up are all big headlines rumbling under the surface. Listen in as Aviation Week editors discuss.
The F-35B exists because of its commonality with the F-35A and F-35C, but all three variants are better aircraft because of the STOVL version challenges.
With completion of development flight-testing, the Lockheed Martin-led team provides a deep dive into the engineering effort behind developing the F-35.
