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???? Bayraktar KIZILELMA achieved a successful PT-3 AB-Assisted Takeoff Aerodynamics System Identification Test. This milestone was accomplished using the TC-OZB3 (PT3) prototype, which features an afterburner engine. What Are Your thoughts? Video: Bayraktar
Control and denial. Two important concepts shape how the US military organizes, trains, and equips. Two important concepts with surprisingly shallow and misaligned frameworks across the Joint Force. https://lnkd.in/gdyxTuU2
Mach Industries is building a VTO cruise missile for the Army. LINK: https://lnkd.in/gFvEa8PM
New gear-up footage of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems XQ-67A.
Cold War defense tech ad from 1988. This was the Hypervelocity Missile (HVM), a Mach 4 weapon for the A-10 Warthog that used a penetrating rod to disable armored vehicles. It lacked a warhead and seeker, keeping per-unit costs to a minimum. It was guided, though. The shooting aircraft's targeting pod used a laser command guidance link to automatically send target position updates to the missile to the point the targeting pod was tracking. Your read that right: it was the laser version of Russia's SA-2/SA-3 radar SAM command-guidance logic. The HVM started in 1981 and had concept test shots in 1983...but was cancelled in ~1988. HVM evolved to become the MGM-166 KEM (Kinetic Energy Missile) for the Army. The missile went through another decade of demonstration and development and was ready for production but was cancelled in 2004—a victim of GWOT.
The US Navy and Lockheed Martin announced the start of flight test integration of the AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) onto the F-35B. LINK: https://lnkd.in/g-a8En9q
That's 3,092 Shahed drones--not all drones--in 1 month. LINK: https://lnkd.in/g_-pu_-B
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Jon Norman, vice president of Requirements & Capabilities at Raytheon, discusses the future of air warfare and how Raytheon's advanced technologies are essential for maintaining air superiority on The Fighter Pilot Podcast and The Merge. Listen to the full episode ??https://rtxcorp.co/4hbHCi5
A US Marine Corps F-35B has conducted the first test flights of a Meteor missile, part of the campaign to integrate UK weapons onto the F-35. LINK: https://lnkd.in/gVaMD2T9
The US Air Force 53d Wing recently tested the rapid integration of Navy Harpoon anti-ship missiles on the F-16. LINK: https://lnkd.in/geB8WHeK