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ScanEagles delivered to Malaysia

Posted on May 8, 2020 by alert5

The United States has delivered six ScanEagles unmanned air vehicles to the Royal Malaysian Navy in Kota Kinabalu on May 6.

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Search and Rescue configured Hermes 900 delivered to South East Asian customer

Posted on May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 by alert5

Elbit says its Hermes 900 unmanned air vehicle configured for maritime Search and Rescue (SaR) missions has been delivered to a South East Asian customer.

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USN to test space-based solar power on next X-37B mission

Posted on May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 by alert5

Space-based solar power (SBSP), a concept of collecting solar power in space and beaming it back to Earth using microwaves, will be tested for the first time aboard X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-6) mission.

Photo: Boeing

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USN requests Sidekick internal weapons rack for F-35C to carry 6 AIM-120s

Posted on May 4, 2020 by alert5

The Pentagon’s Fiscal Year 2021 Unfunded Priorities List has put in a request to equip low-rate initial production (LRIP) Lot 15 F-35C fighters with the Sidekick internal weapons rack.

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (Jan. 24, 2019) U.S. Navy Lt. Daniel “Crib” Armenteros, piloting an F-35C Lightning II assigned to Naval Air Station China Lake’s Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Nine (VX-9), conducts the first live-fire test of an AIM-120 missile released from an operational Joint Strike Fighter. The advanced medium-range air-to-air Missile was released from the aircraft’s internal weapons storage bay over a controlled sea test range in the Pacific Ocean as part of efforts by the 412th Test Wing and Joint Operational Test Team at Edwards Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Christopher Okula/RELEASED)

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GoPro cameras allowed engineers to evaluate latest software build for C/KC-130T AOU

Posted on May 4, 2020May 4, 2020 by alert5

Travels restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic forced engineers to come up with a video conference solution to allow participants at four locations to evaluate the latest build of the U.S. Navy’s C/KC-130T Avionics Obsolescence Upgrade (AOU) software configuration.

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