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NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator full-scale single-aisle research plane designed to explore net-zero aviation emissions and faster, more economical passenger flight near the speed of sound has been named the X-66A by the US Air Force.Continue Rea… Continue reading NASA’s X-66A transonic plane doesn’t have a perfect wing, but it tries
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has countered the emerging threat of drone swarms, using the Tactical High-power Operational Responder (THOR) to take out multiple targets.Continue ReadingCategory: Military, TechnologyTags: US Air Force, drones… Continue reading THOR microwave weapon hammers drone swarms in demo test
Northrop Grumman’s Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS), which combines multiple current air and missile defense command and control systems into one, has been granted initial operational capability. This means it can begin active deployment.Continu… Continue reading Northrop Grumman’s IBCS C&C defense system takes command
The options for a practical hypersonic missile for the US have narrowed to one after Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Andrew P. Hunter told the House Armed Services Committee that the Department of Defense is cancelling Lockheed Martin’s ARRW (AGM-… Continue reading Lockheed Martin ARRW knocked out of US hypersonic missile race
In a teaser ahead of its first flight later this year, the US Air Force has released two new images of its B-21 Raider nuclear stealth bomber that provide new insights into the highly-classified US$692-million aircraft’s design and capabilities.Continu… Continue reading US Air Force releases new images of B-21 Raider nuclear-armed bomber
Northrop Grumman has successfully completed the first full-scale static test fire of the stage-one solid-rocket motor for the LGM-35A Sentinel that will replace the US Air Force’s Minuteman III nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM).C… Continue reading Northrop Grumman test fires first stage of Sentinel nuclear missile
The US Air Force has awarded Boeing a US$1.2-billion contract to develop new variants of the company’s E-7 Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) aircraft to replace America’s Cold War fleet of 31 E-3 Sentry AWACS early warning aircraft.Continue Read… Continue reading US Air Force buys E-7 spy plane to replace aging E-3 Sentry fleet
At NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, Rolls-Royce has begun testing of the F130 jet dual-engine pods that will power the US Air Force’s B-52H Stratofortress heavy bomber fleet for the remainder of its service life into the 2050s.Continue Readi… Continue reading Rolls-Royce begins testing of last engines for the US B-52 fleet
A unique Lockheed Martin fighter jet trainer called the VISTA X-62A has become the first tactical aircraft to be controlled by artificial intelligence, taking to the air for over 17 hours during a test flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California i… Continue reading AI takes control of tactical aircraft for over 17 hours in world first
With an eye to taking autonomous flight to the next level, the US Air Force has awarded a contract to Reliable Robotics to study how to turn multi-engine transport jets into robotic aircraft that can handle all aspects of a flight by themselves, from t… Continue reading US Air Force looks into flying robotic multi-engine jet transports