Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
The Raytheon-built radar jammer confirmed safety-of-flight characteristics during the sortie by the VX-23 flight test squadron at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Kim Minseok, Bradley Perrett
South Korea’s defense ministry and Hanwha have rolled out a prototype for the radar of the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KF-X fighter, following delivery of a ground-test unit in April.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Airbus has demonstrated how it could connect unmanned remote carrier platforms in a multi-data link environment.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Bill Carey
Garmin said it was returning to normal operations following a cyberattack that disrupted its web-based aviation and consumer applications for several days.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Graham Warwick
Logos Technologies is to conduct proof-of-concept flight tests of a wide-area motion imagery sensor on the Insitu RQ-21A Blackjack small tactical unmanned aircraft system operated by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
With memories of failed acquisition attempts still fresh, US Army leaders are defining a new approach to deliver FLRAA and FARA programs
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
U.S. “repositions” Turkish F-35s; Airbus wins UK Skynet contract; Germany’s new Sigint aircraft; and Northrop delivers GEM 63 boosters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Israel’s Upper Tier Layer appeared to reach fruition with Arrow 3 deployment, but the program is continuing to advance.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Navy is conducting market research for the design, manufacture, test and delivery of the second block of a mine countermeasures system that will operate from an MQ-8C Fire Scout.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
Australia’s military has agreed to help the U.S. Navy develop the second electronic attack pod developed for the Boeing EA-18G under the Next Generation Jammer program, U.S. and Australian officials announced on July 13.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
A powerful new terrain following and avoidance radar for the Bell Boeing CV-22 has entered flight testing at Eglin AFB, Florida, the service announced on July 15.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Air Force is to test its information sharing technologies on one of its Airbus A330 Voyager tankers, turning the platform into an airborne communications node.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

Daniel S. Goldin
It is time for the military to relinquish control of commercial positioning, navigation and timing assets.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Graham Warwick
DARPA has selected Calspan to modify up to four Aero Vodochody L-39 Albatros jet trainers to test whether pilots will trust the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to automate dogfighting.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Bradley Perrett
Australia is planning to expand its electronic-attack force for the 2030s following the retirement of its Boeing EA-18G Growlers while also enlarging its fleets of surveillance aircraft, partly through the replacement of Boeing E-7A Wedgetails.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The decision vaults Sierra Nevada over established industry leaders BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman, who have prior experience integrating radio frequency countermeasure systems on AC-130s and MC-130s.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) has submitted an A-10 synthetic aperture radar improvements amendment to the fiscal 2021 defense policy bill.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Germany has signed contracts with Airbus and Hensoldt for the development, supply and integration of an active electronically scanned array radar for the Eurofighter.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
An 18-month delay in the development of the UK’s new Crowsnest helicopter-based airborne early warning system means the capability will not be fully operational when it is embarked on the first operational cruise, planned for next May.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
An AESA radar has been in Eurofighter road map for more than a decade, but partner nations have been reluctant to make the investment.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Jen DiMascio
U.S. Navy fixes EMALS issue; AARGM-ER clears design review; Germany reviews P-3 replacements; China’s quantum key advancement.
Defense

By Guy Norris
Red 6, a California-based start-up synthetic training specialist, is being backed by Lockheed Martin to accelerate development of the company’s ATARS (Airborne Tactical Augmented Reality System).
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
Lighter and more capable helmet-mounted display systems are on the shopping list of the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army as an upgrade for the F/A-18E/F and EA-18G and new equipment for the F-15EX and Future Vertical Lift (FVL) rotorcraft.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
Satellites and interceptors for hypersonic defense are in development, but fielding strategy remains mostly unfunded.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
A nearly $1 billion upgrade breathes new life into old F/A-18C/Ds as the replacement selection process continues.
Aircraft & Propulsion