Last month the Navy received the first Raytheon Technologies [RTX] Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) production-representative pods for use in Navy testing at Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Patuxent River, Md. On Aug. 8 the service said it received the first two fleet ...
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The Navy and Marine Corps said they are replacing a potentially defective part used in pilot ejection in some planes like Super Hornets and training aircraft and grounding some planes as part of the process. The Navy was notified of a potential defect on the cartridge actuated devices (CAD) in some ...
Two Navy Boeing [BA] F/A-18E Super Hornets recently conducted several operational demonstration tests in India to show they can operate off Indian aircraft carriers. The Super Hornets underwent several ski-jump, roll-in and fly-in arrestments, and performance flights in a variety of weight ...
Boeing [BA] and the Navy successfully tested a Block III F/A-18E/F Super Hornet controlling three unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) flight tests in 2021, the company announced on July 15. During a two week period of test fights, Super Hornet pilots entered commands ...
Both House and Senate versions of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 defense authorization bill would require the Navy to maintain a certain number of EA-18G Growler aircraft after the service sought to retire over two dozen in its budget request. According to a copy of the chairman’s mark of the ...
The government of Canada confirmed it has rejected Boeing [BA] as a finalist in the government’ project to replace its 76 aging CF-18 Hornet fighters. The government is seeking to acquire 88 new fighter jets for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in a competitive process and on Dec. 1 it ...