Air News & Articles

The ultra-light BlackKite Pod from Logos Technologies can be externally mounted to planes, tactical unmanned aerial vehicles, and helicopters to perform wide-area surveillance day and night, storing imagery for up to 11 hours

Northrop Grumman’s Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) provided high-altitude, long-endurance support, delivering near real-time data to monitor the battlefield throughout the exercises

The Boeing MQ-25 T1 unmanned test asset has successfully completed an air-to-air refueling mission with a U.S. Navy E-2D command and control aircraft, the second carrier-based aircraft it has refueled to date

Boeing’s first KC-46A tanker for a non-U.S. customer has successfully given and received fuel in a test flight before delivery to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force later this year

Northrop Grumman has integrated its OpenLift open architecture avionics suite onto the first UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter for the U.S. Army to enhance aircrew situational understanding and mission safety while reducing pilot workload

Lockheed Martin will provide sustainment support for the Indian Air Force C-130J-30 fleet, and support for the C-130J airframe, peculiar and common spare items, engines, propellers, software, publication services, and ground handling equipment

Collins Aerospace has collaborated with the Utah Air National Guard to demonstrate how innovative integrated solutions can bring joint connectivity and edge computing to meet emerging Joint All Domain Command and Control needs on the KC-135

The Leonardo DRS Airborne & Intelligence Systems business has partnered with Collins Aerospace to deliver the Joint Secure Air Combat Training System for use on Draken’s Falcon 20 fleet for the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy

During the tests, a Lockheed Martin PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptor successfully intercepted a tactical ballistic missile target, validating missile and launcher software and hardware component upgrades

Mercury Systems will deliver a rugged data, video, and audio loader and recorder with cybersecurity capability to the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) to securely move mission data to and from the aircraft for analysis

BAE Systems will improve weapons capability, increase the variety of precision guided munitions, and further enhance Typhoon’s defensive systems and datalinks, improving high-speed secure sharing of data