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Japan picks Lockheed Martin’s LRDR for its Aegis Ashore installations

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Reuters is reporting that Japan has picked Lockheed Martin’s Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) over Raytheon’s SPY-6 as the primary sensor for both its Aegis Ashore installations.

Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Complex Romania
By Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet (Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Complex Romania) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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USAF has slashed UTP to 49 weeks and some instructors are concern

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It now takes the U.S. Air Force an average of 49.2 weeks to train a pilot under the undergraduate pilot training syllabus. Previously, it was 54.7 weeks.

1st Lieutenant Austin Hornsby,435th Fighter Training Squadron student pilot, trains on a unit training device simulator Oct. 20, 2016, at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, for the Introduction to Fighter Fundamental course.The squadron’s two-fold mission is to forge up to 150 fighter pilots and weapon systems officers annually – including international students – and to weld experienced fighter pilots and WSOs into instructors in Air Educationand Training Command’s Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals squadrons. (U.S. Air Force photo by Joel Martinez/Released)

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