:

Navy/USMC

Navy to Test Triton UAS’ Radar During Flight Tests This Week

Valerie Insinna

Monday, April 13th, 2015

SHARE:

Navy to Test Triton UAS’ Radar During Flight Tests This Week

The Navy is playing the waiting game, hoping the weather at Naval Air Station Patuxent River clears up so the MQ-4C Triton unmanned surveillance aircraft can conduct its first sensor flights this week.Severe winds and rain have kept the service from being able to test the unmanned aerial system’s AN/ZPY-3 multi-function active sensor radar, said Sean Burke, the service’s program manager for the persistent maritime unmanned aircraft systems program office.“We were supposed to fly last week, we were supposed to fly…

Congress

Key Defense Committee Members Face Tight Midterm Races, Including HASC GOP’ers In Virginia

As the mid-term elections near with polls showing an increasing likelihood of a switch in majority control in the House and potentially the Senate, three Virginia Republicans on the House […]

‘Theoretical Potential’ to Achieve 1,509 Combat-Coded Fighters by 2035, USAF Says

In the latest U.S. Air Force fighter force structure report submitted to Congress, the service speaks of a “theoretical potential” to achieve a goal of 1,509 combat-coded fighters in the […]

Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]