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Headlines June 14, 2013
News A350: The aircraft that Airbus did not want to build After many years on the drawing board and $15 billion of investment the latest potential blockbuster from Airbus made its long-awaited first flight June 14. Business A350 marks new phase in aero-engines A U.K. aircraft engine claimed to be the most efficient in...
News Briefs June 14, 2013
Top military leader disputes diplomat on Benghazi The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says four members of Army special forces in Tripoli were never told to stand down after the attack last year on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey disputed the claim by former top diplomat Gregory...
Raytheon to improve US Army air defenses, better identify targets
Raytheon, under a contract modification from the U.S. Army, is adding new capabilities to the Identification Friend or Foe interrogator to reduce Radio Frequency emissions and enhance target identification for the warfighter. “We understood that the warfighter needed an improved identification capability, so Raytheon is both increasing the capability of the interrogator system and reducin...
Northrop Grumman develops new aallium arsenide E-Band high-power monolithic microwave integrated sircuits
Northrop Grumman photographs Northrop Grumman has developed the APH667 (left) and the APH668, two new GaAs MMIC high-power amplifiers operating in the E-band frequency spectrum. They allow users to reach higher output power lev...
RQ-21A Small UAS completes first East Coast flight
Navy photograph The Navy and Marine Corps RQ-21A Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS) takes its first flight from Webster Field Annex, an outlying field to Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., June 12. A team from ...
Air Force C-130s drop 25,000 gallons of retardant on Colorado fire
Navy photograph by Lt. Cmdr. William Lewis Two Modular Airborne Firefighting System-equipped C-130 Hecules from the Air Force Reserve’s 302nd Airlift Wing prepare to take flight June 12, 2013, at Peterson Air Force Base, ...