It was loud. It was cold. It was uncomfortable. But to Russell Jones, it was beautiful. There are many memories that Jones, a World War II veteran, has of the heavy bomber Consolidated B-24 Liberator airplane, but one thing seems to stick out. „The Pratt & Whitney engines were damn good,” the former tail gunner … Dowiedz się więcej
Boeing [NYSE: BA] recently finished delivering more than 40 computer processing units that will support an integrated network of computer and communication equipment critical to U.S. Army air and missile defenses. Boeing’s Plug and Fight Processing Units are the main computing assets that link together various Army weapons and sensor platforms with the Integrated Air … Dowiedz się więcej
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE:NOC) Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) will help extend the viability of the U.S. Air Force’s F-16 fighter aircraft beyond 2025 and help ensure the F-16 remains a vital component of the nation’s fighter force structure. Skip Wagner, director of International Business Development and Strategy for Northrop Grumman’s ISR and Targeting Systems … Dowiedz się więcej
Exelis (NYSE:XLS) has successfully completed the final delivery of AN/ALQ-214(V)3 Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures (IDECM) systems to the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), Patuxent River, Md. This shipment concludes 16 years of on-time deliveries from Exelis to the IDECM program. „Since the first production lot in 1997, Exelis has made 192 consecutive months of on-time … Dowiedz się więcej
Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, announced today that its propulsion systems successfully contributed to the first attempted and successful salvo engagement of two Raytheon Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB guided missiles against a ballistic missile target. The SM-3 Block IB guided missile is part of the Missile Defense Agency’s Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) … Dowiedz się więcej
Signal Sentry 1000, an Exelis (NYSE:XLS) product that detects and locates GPS interference sources in 3-D by using longitude, latitude and altitude has demonstrated successful results during a planned field testing event held last week at the Vidsel Test Range in Sweden. Taking advantage of the range’s remote location, Exelis was able to conduct tests … Dowiedz się więcej