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The first NGJ Mid-Band EDM pod has been delivered to VX-23

Posted on September 6, 2019September 5, 2019 by alert5

Raytheon has delivered the first Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band Engineering Development Model pod to NAS Patuxent River, NAVAIR has disclosed.

U.S. Navy photo

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Poland wants excess U.S. C-130Hs

Posted on September 6, 2019September 5, 2019 by alert5

Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak revealed at the MSPO defense industry show that the country has filed a letter of request to the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency for five C-130H under the excess defense articles program.

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First female from the USAF to graduate from U.S. Army’s Ranger School

Posted on September 6, 2019September 5, 2019 by alert5

First Lt. Chelsey Hibsch, 821st Contingency Response Squadron, is the first female from the U.S. Air Force to graduate from the Army’s Ranger School.

First Lt. Chelsey Hibsch, 821st Contingency Response Squadron, receives her Ranger tab after graduating from the U.S. Army Ranger School Aug. 30, 2019, at Fort Benning, Georgia. Hibsch became the first Air Force female in history to graduate the two-month course. (U.S. Army photo by John Tongret)

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Vietnam wants to buy T-6

Posted on September 5, 2019September 5, 2019 by alert5

PACAF commander Gen. Charles Q. Brown has revealed that Vietnam is looking at acquiring the T-6 Texan II.

U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Christopher Gross
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NASA tests 30-mile-long microphone array in preparation for X-59

Posted on September 5, 2019 by alert5

NASA has deployed an approximately 30-mile-long array of specially-configured microphones in the Mojave Desert as part of a flight series in preparation for the X-59’s testing.

One of multiple microphone stations used in the CarpetDIEM flight series, which gave researchers valuable lessons learned in preparations to deploy a similar array for the quiet supersonic X-59. Prior to community overflights, X-59 will undergo an acoustic validation phase, during which NASA will deploy the array of specially-configured microphones to measure the X-59’s thumps, in order to verify that they are as quiet as predicted.

Credits: NASA Photo / Lauren Hughes

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