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Bradley Perrett from Aviation Week looked at Japan’s Request For Information for its next fighter and concluded that Tokyo’s requirements can only be met by a clean-sheet design.
By Kaboldy (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Continue reading “Specs for Japan’s F-3 calls for large twin-engine fighter ala J-20”
Lockheed Martin has agreed to sell four buildings plus 52 acres of land at its south campus in Marietta to Georgia Tech. One of those buildings – L-22 – served as the main program, administrative and engineering building for the F-22 program until 2013 when production ceased.
Photo: Georgia Tech
Lockheed Martin’s AN/TPQ-53 counter-battery radar has proven that besides detecting incoming artillery and rocket fire, the active electronically scanned array radar system can be used to detect unmanned aerial vehicles as well.
Photo: Lockheed Martin
Continue reading “AN/TPQ-53 counter-battery radar demonstrates UAV detection capability”
An interim investigation report into the crash of a AgustaWestland AW609 tilt-rotor on Oct. 30, 2015 has been released by ANSV.
Continue reading “Control laws played a part in AW609 crash”
The first flight of the BrahMos on a Su-30MKI has finally taken place on Jun. 25 at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Nasik.