Frank Wolfe
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Navy/USMCL3Harris Touts F/A-18 Avionics Experience After Contract Wins
On Oct. 1, L3Harris [LHX] touted its experience building avionics systems for the U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornets and Super Hornets a day after the company secured avionics supplier contracts for […]
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ArmyAirbus Continues Delivery of UH-72As for U.S. Army Training, Looks Forward to H160M
COLUMBUS, Miss.—Airbus Helicopters is delivering two UH-72A Lakota training helicopters per month from its plant here to the U.S. Army under a program that has delivered 444 Lakotas for the […]
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Navy/USMCAirbus Points to 5.5 Million Hours of H135 IFR Flight as Key in Offering for Navy Trainer
COLUMBUS, Miss.— Airbus Helicopters is pointing to the twin engine H135 helicopter’s 5.5 million hours of instrument flight rules (IFR) experience since the year 2000 as a key differentiator in […]
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Air ForceRaytheon Preparing Military Aircraft for IFF Mode 5 Mandate by Next June
Raytheon [RTN] said recently that it is preparing military aircraft to meet a new Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) mandate by next June. Mode 5 IFF is an enhancement to legacy […]
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Air ForceCollins Wants to Bring Open Architecture to Military Avionics
Collins Aerospace [UTX] sees its development of what could become the aviation industry’s first FAA-certified multicore processor as providing a baseline for establishing an open architecture for the U.S. Army’s […]
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Air ForceCurtiss-Wright Introduces HUNTR Gateway to Reduce Fratricide, Speed Mission Completion
Curtiss-Wright‘s [CW] Massachusetts-based Tactical Communications Group (TCG) has introduced the Hub and Network Translator (HUNTR), a next generation Tactical Data Link (TDL) translator to simplify military communications, reduce fratricide and […]
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Navy/USMCCubic Corporation Working on Full Motion Video Link for F-35
San Diego-based Cubic Corp. [CUB] is working on a Video Data Link (VDL) for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 to provide ground force Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTAC) full-motion video […]
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Air ForceMilitary to Have 2,936 Aircraft with ADS-B Out by Jan. 1, Air Force Says
The Pentagon will have 2,936 aircraft equipped with Automatic Dependence Surveillance-Broadcast (Out) by the FAA-mandated deadline of Jan. 1, according to the U.S. Air Force, the military service in charge […]
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Navy/USMCBell 407GXi Achieves IFR Certification Required for Navy Trainer Competition
About a month after the FAA cleared the Leonardo TH-119 to fly in inclement weather under instrument flight rules (IFR), on Aug. 15 Bell [TXT] received IFR certification for the […]
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ArmyArmy Plans Addition of Ka Band for Gray Eagle to Bolster Communications
The Army plans to add Ka-band satellite communications capability for its fleet of General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAVs, the military service said on Aug. 13. General Atomics is to […]