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Northrop Grumman to Provide Joint Threat Emitter units to US Air Force

Air May 22, 2019

Northrop Grumman has received a $46 million delivery order for eight Joint Threat Emitter (JTE) Units as part of the indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity JTE Enhanced Delivery Initiative contract awarded by the US Air Force in December 2018. JTE is a mobile air defense electronic warfare threat simulator that provides high-fidelity replication of surface-to-air missiles and ...

UK and US cooperate on simulator training

Air May 21, 2019

New training simulator ‘Gladiator’ will allow RAF personnel and US aircrew to prepare for numerous exercises and challenges. The training simulator programme was announced at RAF Waddington as part of an official visit. The flexible programme will allow personnel to adapt exercise capabilities, missions, tactics, and procedures during training, according to ...

Innovate UK calls for new aerospace designs

Air May 17, 2019

Innovate UK has launched a competition for £150million in funding for new aerospace designs to support the UK industry. The competition will offer to fund for new aerospace designs that support the UK Aerospace Technology Strategy. The competition forms part of a £3.9billion fund created by Innovate UK with the UK ...

Exercise Northern Edge takes place in Alaska

Air May 17, 2019

Around 10,000 US military personnel are participating in exercise Northern Edge 2019 (NE19), a joint training exercise hosted by US Pacific Air Forces, on and above central Alaska ranges and the Gulf of Alaska, May 13-24. NE19 is one in a series of US Indo-Pacific Command exercises in 2019 that prepares joint forces to ...