MilitaryU.S. Navy Flight Testing Leonardo Radar for Northrop Grumman MQ-8C Fire Scout The United States Navy has completed calibration testing of the Leonardo Osprey 30 AN/ZPY-8 radar for the Northrop Grumman MQ-8C Fire Scout drone and is to finish flight testing of the radar…
MilitaryNavy Remotely Tests C/KC-130T Avionics Software Fix Due to travel restrictions because of COVID-19, the Navy and Lockheed Martin remotely tested software fixes for the latest software build of the C/KC-130T Avionics Obsolescence Upgrade (AOU) program in Fort Worth…
Embedded AvionicsU.S. Navy Requests Increase for Development of MQ-4C Triton SIGINT Package The United States Navy fiscal 2021 budget requests an increase for the development of the Integrated Functional Capability-4 (IFC-4) signals intelligence (SIGINT) package aboard the service's Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton reconnaissance drone.…
MilitaryLeonardo Wins Navy Trainer Helicopter Competition In a hotly contested competition, the Navy on Monday selected Leonardo’s AgustaWestland to produce and deliver the new TH-32A Advanced Helicopter Training Systems as the new Navy trainer. Other competitors for the Navy…
MilitaryF-35C to Use eCASS for Avionics Testing The U.S. Navy’s F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft carrier variant will use Lockheed Martin’s electronic Consolidated Automated Support Systems (eCASS) for avionics testing when it starts entering into…
MilitaryUS Navy Sinks Unmanned Systems Office, Rethinks Approach The U.S. Navy has disestablished the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Unmanned Systems (DASN UxS) a mere two and a half years after standing it up in October 2015. Assistant…
MilitaryUS Navy Finally Embracing Mission-Based Platform Testing It makes sense to pay a nickel up front to save a dime in the long run. It’s easier to commit to that when a nickel is five cents instead of millions…
MilitaryBoeing Shows off MQ-25 Stingray Offering Boeing showed off its MQ-25 Stingray carrier-based unmanned aircraft system offering to reporters at its facility Thursday and revealed it will use the Rolls-Royce AE 3007N engine. This is the same engine on…
MilitaryMQ-25 Stingray Drone Purpose-Built to Marry Manned, Unmanned Manned and unmanned aircraft working in tandem is the arena where Lockheed Martin sees the upcoming MQ-25A Stingray breaking ground, according to Skunk Works head Rob Weiss. Speaking at the annual Sea-Air-Space…
MilitaryGeneral Atomics Opens Up About its MQ-25 Submission General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) has revealed information on its entry to the U.S. Navy’s call for submissions for an MQ-25A Stingray unmanned aerial tanker, including a plethora of partnerships. GA-ASI…