SAN DIEGO – 03 September 2021 – General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) continues to advance new levels of autonomous control for unmanned aircraft, successfully completing an airborne Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) demonstration on Aug. 25, 2021 pairing a company-owned MQ-20 Avenger with a modified King…

On a spring afternoon in the late 1980s, U.S. Air Force 2nd Lt. Jeffrey Kindley was eating lunch at the Air Museum at Castle Air Force Base when a man noticed his uniform and asked about his job. Kindley said he was training to pilot the B-52, which at the time had seen almost 35 years of service.

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The challenges of the hypersonic era in military operations are immense. But so are the abilities of innovators who work together to solve them.

That was the message when Wes Kremer, president of Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business, spoke to investors about how teams are…

Electro-optic (EO) and Infrared (IR) guided missiles are increasingly becoming threats to military bases, ammunition depots and civilian strategic facilities due to advancing technologies. On the one hand, while missile technologies are developing rapidly, innovative technologies in terms of countermeasures…

Fort Worth, Texas (August 11, 2021) – Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, has released new data on the build and testing for the Bell 360 Invictus competitive prototype. The Bell 360 program is rapidly progressing through manufacturing, assembly, components testing, and systems integration…

LITTLETON, Co., August 10, 2021 – Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) In-space Upgrade Satellite System (LINUSS) completed environmental testing and is ready for launch later this year, demonstrating how small CubeSats can regularly upgrade satellite constellations to add timely new capabilities and extend spacecraft…

Taufkirchen, 3 August 2021 – As sensor and cryptographic solutions provider, HENSOLDT France is delivering its IFF identification system (IFF= Identification Friend of Foe) , the Mode 5-capable MSR1000I interrogator for GBAD systems to MBDA. 

An initial order for the delivery of 13 MSR1000I IFF…

Fairfax, Va – General Dynamics Mission Systems introduced the new Badger software-defined radio today at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Symposium in National Harbor, Maryland. Produced at the company’s Scottsdale, Arizona facility, the Badger is a compact, 2-channel software-defined radio that provides…