Altogether, even if F-35s are not being delivered now without radars, there are still significant challenges facing the Block 4 upgrade package and the rest of the Joint Strike Fighter program.
“The strike group’s current deployment has already been extended once, and its sailors were expecting to come home in early March,” The New York Times, which was first to report that the Ford was ordered to the Middle East, noted. “The new delay will further jeopardize the Ford’s scheduled dry dock period in Virginia, ...
HELIOS has been integrated on Preble since 2022, and is currently the only Navy ship equipped with the system. Several other Arleigh Burke class destroyers have received lower-powered Optical Dazzling Interdictor (ODIN) laser systems. The Navy has installed more experimental high-energy laser directed energy weapons on other ...
Yesterday, Iron Fist’s prime contractor, Elbit Systems, released a video on YouTube, seen below, which includes clips of the system knocking down quadcopter-type and small fixed-wing drones in testing. The footage also shows tests demonstrating the ability of Iron Fist’s high-explosive interceptors to defeat rocket-propelled ...
Boeing has previously confirmed to us that the MQ-25’s design was influenced by the company’s submission to the Navy’s abortive Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) program. UCLASS envisioned a stealthy carrier-based drone capable of performing kinetic strikes and intelligence, surveillance, ...
When it comes to the Army, FLRAA has notably survived a major shakeup in aviation priorities in recent years that has seen the cancellation of other major programs. There was talk for a time that the MV-75 might be at risk of being truncated or worse, but the trend line has been very much in the opposite direction in the past ...
