Monthly Archive: Ottobre 2021

Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems Inc., Sacramento, California, has been awarded a $17,677,612 contract for research and development for the Off-Boarding Sensing Station.
This contract also has a $31,386,106 option.
This contract provides for a design, development, and flight demonstration in an o…

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle set sail again on October 12 for a three-day individual training excursion (ENTIND), with the aim of continuing its work-up to operational status.

After an initial outing in September, during which sailors were able to refine the settings of …

When David Tweedie describes what it’s like working on the XA100, a fighter jet engine that can automatically reconfigure itself for improved fuel burn on long patrols or increase thrust in combat situations, he compares it to a robot that could have leaped off the pages of a comic book.

“It’s …

The state enterprise Konotop Aircraft Repair Plant Aviacon, which is a part of Ukroboronprom, handed over another batch of repaired and serially modernized Mi-24PU1 helicopters to the Army Aviation of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This happened as part of the implementation of the …

What is a Fractional Orbit Bombardment System and what does it mean for China?

In August 2021, China launched a Long March rocket carrying a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) into low earth orbit. The HGV then re-entered the earth’s atmosphere, landing ‘about two-dozen miles’ from its intended targe…

Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Dulles, Virginia, has awarded a $340,000,000 firm-fixed-price, cost-reimbursable, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for mobile sensors operations and maintenance services of the Cobra King radar system.

Work will be performed at Patrick Space Force B…