Air News & Articles

New Micro-Gimbal for Enhanced UAS Situational Awareness

The AVT CM62 Micro Gimbal from CACI International offers high performance intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance in a small, lightweight, low-power system to enhance future small Unmanned Aerial System (sUAS) operations

Aug 18, 2021
NATO Selects Aircraft Sustainment and Training Support Provider

Northrop Grumman will cover operations, maintenance and lifecycle sustainment of NATO’s fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles, air vehicle mission command and control stations, and trainer at Sigonella Air Base, Italy

Aug 18, 2021
U.S. DoD Awards Contract for Integrated Counter Drone System

Citadel Defense will deliver a system designed to autonomously detect, classify, track, and defeat unwanted Unmanned Aerial Systems using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, machine learning, and sensor fusion

Aug 16, 2021
New High-Speed Vertical Take-Off and Landing Design Concepts

The HSVTOL technology from Bell Textron combines the hover capability of a helicopter with the speed, range and survivability features of a fighter aircraft in order to develop a next-generation vertical lift aircraft system

Aug 16, 2021
Upgraded APKWS Guidance Kits Improve Rocket Range and Impact

The upgrade will improve the range of BAE Systems’ APKWS guided rockets by up to 30%, enabling warfighters to hit targets from a greater standoff distance and at a steeper angle of attack

Aug 13, 2021
MQ-4C Triton Completes First Flight with Multi-Intelligence Upgrade

The multi-intelligence configuration of Northrop Grumman’s MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aerial System will enable enhanced maritime situational awareness to inform real-time decision making at tactical to strategic levels

Aug 13, 2021
RAF’s P-8 Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft Drops First Torpedo

The Poseidon aircraft successfully dropped a recoverable exercise variant of the Mark 54 Lightweight Torpedo during a training flight that simulated an attack on a submarine

Aug 13, 2021
U.S. Air Force Awards Contract for Hypersonic Aircraft Flight Testing

By the end of the flight test campaign, Quarterhorse from Hermeus will be the fastest autonomous, reusable aircraft in the world and the first of its kind to fly a Turbine-Based Combined Cycle engine

Aug 12, 2021
Laser-Based Helicopter Obstacle Detection System Developed

Developed by Meteksan, the system warns the pilot against horizontal and vertical obstacles at appropriate times with LiDAR technology, high precision signal processing, and user-friendly visual creation capability

Aug 12, 2021
U.S. Navy Test-Fires Anti-Radiation Missile

The U.S. Navy successfully launched the Northrop Grumman AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile – Extended Range missile to demonstrate the long range capability of this new design

Aug 11, 2021
Sustainment Support for the F-35 Electronic Warfare System

BAE Systems will provide software maintenance, depot test equipment support, logistics analysis, obsolescence monitoring, technical field support, and reachback support for the F-35 U.S. Reprogramming Laboratory

Aug 11, 2021
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