On June 30, the U.S. Air Force 28th Test and Evaluation Squadron and 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron (TES) conducted the first live fire test of the Raytheon Technologies [RTX] AIM-120D3 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) Form, Fit, Function, Refresh (F3R) from an F-15E Strike ...
Weapons
The U.S. Air Force said on July 13 that a prototype Lockheed Martin [LMT] AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) scored its second booster flight test success on July 12 off the southern California coast. ARRW Booster Test Flight-3 “was the 12th flight for the program and third ...
The Global Air and Space Chiefs Conference this week in London will delve into future warfighting concepts harnessing artificial intelligence/machine learning for kinetic and command and control purposes; quantum computing; the transition from crewed to uencrewed systems; and lessons learned for ...
The future Combat Collaborative Aircraft (CCA) may have a role in future U.S. Air Force jamming missions, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown said on June 22. “One of the [Air Force] operational imperatives is the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) family of systems, and that ...
On June 7, Lockheed Martin [LMT] said it had received a U.S. Air Force contract for Phase 1 of the Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW) competition. A day later, L3Harris [LHX] said so, and on June 9, Northrop Grumman [NOC] did. All three contracts are to last three months, the companies said. But the Air ...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a contract for the Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW), the company said on June 7. Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman [NOC], Raytheon Technologies [RTX] and L3Harris [LHX] have been competing for SiAW, which is to operate in anti-access/area denial ...