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Boeing Marks 50 Years of Delivering Chinook Helicopters
2012-08-19 Read More...
As Boeing marks the 50th anniversary of delivering the first H-47 Chinook military helicopter, the company is nearing completion of a $130 million renovation of its production line near Philadelphia that will help it meet global demand for the

ITT Exelis Opens Design & Manufacturing Center in Utah
2012-08-19 Read More...
ITT Exelis celebrated the grand opening of its composite design and manufacturing center in Salt Lake City, Utah last

X-51 Hypersonic Aircraft Fails Flight Test
2012-08-16 Read More...
The U.S. Air Force’s X-51 hypersonic test aircraft failed during its latest launch over the Pacific

GE Aviation to Supply Mission Control System to KC-46A Tanker
2012-08-16 Read More...
GE Aviation announced the signing of an agreement with The Boeing Company potentially worth up to $180 million to provide the mission control system for the U.S. Air Force’s KC-46A

US Conducts Tests of Hypersonic Waverider Aircraft
2012-08-16 Read More...
The US military conducted an unmanned test flight of its hypersonic Waverider aircraft, designed to move at 6 times the speed of sound using technology that bridges the gap between planes and rocketships, a military official

NGC’s STSS Participates in Test of Next-Gen Aegis BMDS
2012-08-15 Read More...
The Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites participated in a test of the next generation of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) weapon system, designated FTM-16

U.S. Has “Eyes” Inside Iranian Nuclear Program
2012-08-13 Read More...
The United States said Friday it had “eyes” and “visibility” inside Iran’s nuclear program and would know if Tehran had made a “breakout” move toward acquiring a nuclear

Lockheed Performs 1st Outdoor Flight Test of Stalker UAS
2012-08-09 Read More...
Lockheed Martin and LaserMotive Inc., have completed a series of flight tests of the Stalker Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) to further validate the performance of an innovative laser power system. These tests mark the first-ever outdoor flight of a

Boeing Flight Tests Little Bird H-6U
2012-08-09 Read More...
The Boeing Unmanned Little Bird H-6U successfully performed 14 autonomous takeoffs and landings from a ship during flight tests in July, a significant milestone for a medium-size vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned airborne system

Raytheon Tests Pyros™ Warhead & Guidance System
2012-08-08 Read More...
Raytheon completed a successful warhead and guidance system test of its Pyros™ small tactical munition. The end-to-end test validated the weapon's guidance modes (semi-active laser and global positioning system), its height-of-burst sensor,

GA-ASI Tests NightLighter Airborne Imaging System
2012-08-08 Read More...
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI), a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), tactical reconnaissance radars, and electro-optic surveillance systems, announced the successful flight test of its Nightlighter airborne

Lockheed Delivers 20,000th GMLRS Unitary Rocket
2012-08-08 Read More...
Lockheed Martin has delivered the 20,000th Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Unitary rocket to the U.S.

Boeing, JHU Demo Expanded Control of UAV Swarm
2012-08-08 Read More...
Boeing and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) have demonstrated that an operator on the ground, using only a laptop and a military radio, can command an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) “swarm.”

U.S. Marine Corps Uses Oshkosh TerraMax™ UGV
2012-08-07 Read More...
Unmanned tactical wheeled vehicles that have the potential to serve as a force multiplier and reduce Warfighters’ exposure to lethal attacks continue to come closer to

NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity Lands on Mars Planet
2012-08-06 Read More...
NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year

Eurocopter's X3 Completes Major U.S. tour
2012-08-06 Read More...
The X3 returned last week to its home base at the Istres Flight Test Center in southern France, where it arrived aboard a chartered cargo jetliner that airlifted the aircraft from Virginia in the

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