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…
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…
MilitaryAir Force Plans $1.7 Billion Retrofit Of APG-85 Radar On 181 F-35As In Lot 17 And Prior The Air Force’s fiscal 2027 future years defense plan (FYDP) contains more than $1.7 billion to retrofit 181 Lockheed Martin F-35As in Lot 17 and prior with the future Northrop Grumman AN/APG-85…
MilitaryUSAF To Modify Two B-52s To Carry F130 Engines This Year The U.S. Air Force Commercial Engine Replacement Program for the Boeing B-52J recently passed a Critical Design Review (CDR), according to the service. The passage of CDR allows Boeing’s San Antonio, Texas, plant to…
MilitaryAPG-85 Fielding May Come 9 Months Early, Estimated Unit Cost Of $8.8 Million The Air Force now expects to receive the first Northrop Grumman APG-85 radar for the F-35A fighter by Lockheed Martin in April 2028–nine months earlier than previously scheduled, according to the service’s fiscal 2027 procurement…
AI & AutonomyAir Combat Command’s EOU Tests Anduril’s YFQ-44A Last week, the Air Force’s Experimental Operations Unit (EOU) at Nellis AFB, Nev., tested an Anduril Industries YFQ-44A Fury prototype Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), which flew from a company site in southern California to…
AI & AutonomyGA-ASI Lays Out No Date for Resumption Of YFQ-42A Flights After Mishap General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has paused flight testing of the company’s YFQ-42A Dark Merlin prototype drone for the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program after a mishap about 1 p.m.…
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