In 1976, U.S. Air Force SR-71 Blackbird crews flew from Ny to London in below two hours, reaching speeds exceeding Mach 3 and setting world records which have held up for almost four decades. But those world records won’t stay unbroken for long. That’s because today, on the birthplace of the Blackbird – Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works – engineers are developing a hypersonic aircraft go twice the rate of the SR-71. It’s called the SR-72. Son of the Blackbird The SR-71 was developed using 20th century technology. It was envisioned with slide rules and paper. It wasn’t managed by millions... Read More »
Navy of Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLAN): establish multi-platform landing equipment system BEIJING: The Navy of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLAN) will establish multi-platform landing equipment systems in 2014, reporters learnt from the Armaments Department of the PLAN in early spring. Previously, the PLAN troops have reaped many ends up in promoting the event of multi-platform landing equipment. New forms of equipment including dock landing ship and air cushion landing craft was commissioned to the PLAN in succession, and the research on large landing ship also harvested success. The rapid development of varied landing equipment has laid a legitimate... Read More »
An F-35B short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) fighter aircraft piloted by Marine Corps Maj. Richard Rusnok, successfully employed a Guided Bomb Unit-12 (GBU-12) Paveway II laser-guided weapon from the F-35′s internal weapons bay against a set ground tank test target yesterday. The GBU-12 is a 500-pound, Mk-82 general purpose bomb mated with a nose-mounted laser seeker and flight guidance fins for precision strike. The GBU-12 utilized in this test didn’t contain explosives. The F-35B released its weapon from 25,000 feet and the bomb fell for 35 seconds before hitting a stationary target (a tank) at the Edwards Air Force... Read More »
A major new development contract for you to pave the way in which for continuous capability enhancements of the Eurofighter Typhoon was signed by Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH and the NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency (NETMA). The package (often called Evolution Package 2) shall be delivered by the top of 2015. The Contract signing was announced on Wednesday 30th October in South Korea on the Seoul International Aerospace & Defence Exhibition 2013. Evolution Package 2 contains a lot of improvements including enhancements to the main avionics sensor comparable to the Radar and the Defensive Aids Sub Systems (DASS) of the... Read More »