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USAF Building New Site for Testing B-2 Flight Component RCS and Antenna Calibration

USAF Building New Site for Testing B-2 Flight Component RCS and Antenna Calibration
U.S. Air Force airmen with the 110th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron conduct hot pit refueling on a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber during a Bomber Task Force mission at Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory on Aug. 21 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

By September next year, the U.S. Air Force is to establish a new Composite Aircraft Antenna Calibration Facility (CAACF) at Hill AFB, Utah for testing flight components' radar cross section (RCS) and antenna calibration of the Northrop Grumman [NOC] B-2 bomber. The 309th Maintenance Support Group at Ogden Air Logistics Complex is adapting the Resonant Adaptive Zonal Radar (RAZR) to test B-2 RCS at Ogden, while the Air Force builds CAACF. Resonant Sciences, a small business in Beavercreek, Ohio outside…

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