Northrop Grumman has been awarded a competitive prototyping contract by Boeing to develop an embedded global positioning/inertial navigation system (EGI) for the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft.
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PLA has methods to deal with stealth aircraft
A resident asked, “Are our armed forces capable of shooting down stealth planes like the B-2, F-22 and F-35 planes of the United States? Is the Red Flag-9 missile capable of doing it?
The instructor of the activity Captain Yang Wen said that he could not answer the question directly and all he could say was that China already carried out military drills taking “shooting down stealth planes, cruise missiles and armed helicopters; anti-precision strikes, anti-electronic interference and anti-reconnaissance” as contents at the end of 20th century. Dealing with stealth weapons, such as stealth planes and missiles, is a large systematic project. “In order to successfully shoot down stealth planes, finding them beforehand is the key.”
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Photo: Ka-28, Z-9 on board Varyag
JSF office will have one F-35 dedicated to testing helmet issues
Maj. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, deputy F-35 program director, said his office has set aside a single aircraft at NAS Patuxent River for testing the troublesome helmet.
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Turkish military prosecutor’s report said Syria shot down RF-4 with missile
A report by Turkey’s military prosecutor say initial findings show Syria had shot down its RF-4 with a missile while it was in international airspace.
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