Raytheon Missiles & Defense has completed the first guided release of a StormBreaker smart weapon from an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, which will become the second fighter jet to add the weapon when the program reaches initial operational capability later this year. “StormBreaker is the only weapon that enables pilots to hit moving targets ...
Three RAF Chinooks and 100 personnel will remain in Mali as UK extends its commitment to supporting French counter-terrorism operation. Personnel from RAF Odiham have been deployed in non-combat roles in Mali since 2018 with the aircraft contributing a unique logistical capability to the French-led operation. The Chinooks and aircrew allow ...
Lincoln-based Inzpire Limited has been awarded a five-and-a-half-year task through the Engineering Delivery Partnership (EDP) Agreement to provide Typhoon Requirements Managers and subject matter expertise to the Typhoon Mission Support Centre (MSC) at RAF Coningsby. Inzpire will continue to provide technical support to the RAF Typhoon Requirement Management team via ten ...
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that it has partnered with the US Space Development Agency (SDA) to demonstrate and conduct a series of experiments for an Optical Intersatellite Link (OISL) utilising GA-EMS’s internally developed 1550nm (nanometer) wavelength laser communication terminals (LCTs). This will be one of the first Department of ...