MilitarySix F-35Bs Delivered Without Radars Thus Far, Program Director Says The U.S. Marine Corps thus far has received six F-35B fighters without radars, as the service waits on Northrop Grumman‘s delivery of the AN/APG-85 radar, which is to replace the current APG-81, also…
MilitaryAir Force Examining Long-Term Buy Of 130 New Weapons Pylons For B-52Hs The Air Force is examining the development of an Advanced Wing Weapons Pylon (AWWP) for the B-52H and a long-term buy of up to 130 AWWPs to replace the bomber’s Improved Common…
MilitaryMore Than 20 Companies In The Running For CCA, Increment 2, Air Force Says While the Air Force said in February that it had picked nine companies initially for Increment 2 of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program, more than 20 remain eligible for awards, as…
MilitaryLow Radar Cross Section Of MQ-28 Ghost Bat Validated, Boeing Says Boeing said on June 1 that it has validated the low Radar Cross Section (RCS) of the company’s MQ-28 Ghost Bat drone. “The MQ-28’s RCS reduces the range that enemy radars can…
MilitaryF-35 Program And Lockheed Martin To Finish F-35 PTMS Analysis Soon, As HASC Argues Block 4 “Underfunded” The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) and Lockheed Martin are undertaking a Power and Thermal Management System (PTMS) analysis to specify what systems the fighter will need to have between 62 kilowatts…
MilitaryBoeing, USAF Conduct Preliminary Design Review of LAM Pylon for B-1B, Company Says Boeing engineers at the company’s Oklahoma City site recently completed a preliminary design review to put the Load Adaptable Modular (LAM) pylon on the U.S. Air Force B-1 bomber to carry hypersonic missiles…
MilitaryLess Than $400 Million Needed to Modify VC-25B Bridge Aircraft, USAF Estimates The nearly decade-long program to develop and field two VC-25B Air Force One planes by Boeing has a price tag thus far of more than $4.2 billion, but the service estimates that the cost…
MilitaryUSAF To Meet With Companies On Support Equipment For B-52 CERP As the U.S. Air Force prepares to modify two B-52H bombers later this year for the Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP), the bomber directorate’s contracting office at Tinker AFB, Okla., is to…
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