After a nine-month deployment where they employed a revolutionary weapons upgrade on one of the Marine Corps’ most storied aviation platforms, 13 Marines with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 252 returned home to Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., June 7.
Military aviation
Second X-47B at Pax River
It was not an ordinary morning at Pax River when a large flatbed truck hauling the fighter-sized X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator (UCAS-D) entered through the naval air station’s gate.
Elbit Systems will provide a low-profile head-up display (LPHUD) for Boeing
The Boeing Company has selected Elbit Systems to provide a low-profile head-up display (LPHUD) that will be part of the Advanced Cockpit System for Boeing fighter jets. The LPHUD decision presents additional opportunities for Elbit Systems to develop advanced cockpit avionics capabilities at its Brazilian subsidiary AEL Sistemas.
Osprey crew is getting better
Five aircrew members were injured when their tilt-rotor aircraft crashed north of Navarre, Fla. on the Eglin Range. At approximately 6:45 p.m. June 13, Hurlburt Field was notified that a 1st Special Operations Wing aircraft had crashed on the Eglin Range during a routine training mission. Emergency responders from the base and Okaloosa County arrived … Dowiedz się więcej
MQ-4C Triton Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS)
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC) unveiled the first U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS) in a ceremony today at Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale, Calif., manufacturing facility.
MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) for U.S. Navy
The unmanned aircraft community received its first glimpse of the U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) during an unveiling ceremony June 14 at Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale, Calif., manufacturing plant.