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US Air Force Completes 72-Hour KC-135 Endurance Mission

US Air Force Completes 72-Hour KC-135 Endurance Mission

FAIRCHILD AFB, Wash. — Two KC-135 Stratotankers simultaneously conducted 72-hour single-aircraft endurance missions, demonstrating multi-day tanker mission generation capabilities, Oct. 4-7.

For more than 72 hours, the aircraft only landed to refuel, change crews, and service engine oil while …

GD to Upgrade Portuguese P-3C Orion Patrol Aircraft

GD to Upgrade Portuguese P-3C Orion Patrol Aircraft

OTTAWA — Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC) is pleased to announce General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada has won a $24 million contract to help the Portuguese Air Force modernize its fleet of P-3C aircraft to support Maritime patrol and reconnaissance activities.

This was secured through a…

US Navy Demos Wide Range of VTOL Drones for Future Operations

US Navy Demos Wide Range of VTOL Drones for Future Operations

PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — The Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (PMA-263) program team put Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) systems through their paces during a two-week technical demonstration in mid-September.

More than a dozen vendors attended the event to help in…

US Army Begins Fielding RQ-28 Small Reconnaissance Drones

US Army Begins Fielding RQ-28 Small Reconnaissance Drones

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. — The Soldier Unmanned Aircraft Systems Product Office successfully fielded the newest Soldier unmanned system to the Small UAS Master Trainer Schoolhouse at Fort Benning, Georgia, in early September.

According to Maj. Joshua K. McMillion, short range reconnaissance assis…

India Opens National Defense Industry Exhibitions

India Opens National Defense Industry Exhibitions

Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat, is all decked up to host India’s biggest-ever defence exhibition till date – DefExpo 2022 – between October 18-22, 2022. This 12th edition of the event has been organised on the theme ‘Path to Pride’. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will grace the inaugural cer…
Aurora Wins DARPA Contract to Enhance Machine Learning

Aurora Wins DARPA Contract to Enhance Machine Learning

Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Company, has received a contract award for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Enabling Confidence (EC) program. The goal of this program is to develop scalable methods for incorporating uncertainty from sensors and environments into machine learn…
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