Manned/Unmanned Aircraft Collaboration Begun
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An Air Force/Navy collaboration on the next-gen, manned/unmanned fighter aircraft is underway, reports Military.com.
The inaugural release of two inert 500-pound bombs over the Atlantic Test Ranges from an F-35 out of Patuxent River, MD, was a major milestone for the U.K. Royal Navy and RAF F-35 programreports SEAPOWER.
DoD’s top buyer signs the crucial form, the Pentagon awards Raytheon a relatively small $31 million contract during the Paris Air Show, and what promises to be one of the biggest bomb programs in history begins, reports Breaking Defense.
DefSec Ash Carter walks a tightrope to his first NATO meeting as secretary this week, bolstering Europe’s military deterrence and allying with Moscow to fight terrorism and reaching a nuclear agreement with Iran. “The United States at least continues to hold out the prospect that Russia, maybe not under Vladimir Putin, but maybe sometime in the future, will return to a forward-moving course, rather than a backward-looking course,” Military Times.com quotes.
A busy 15 years of fighting, a replacement fighter jet still out of reach, Navy jets are showing the wear; maintenance and repairs grew an estimated shortfall of jets from 65 to more than 100, reports Pilot OnLine.
It’s always the way. After the photographers and reporters left, the catapult test off the aircraft carrier USS Ford went smooth as silk, 10 times in a row, reports Military.com. Here from the Daily Mail, video from the ‘dead-load’ wheeled steel sleds used in the catapult tests.
AT&T let some of their customers keep unlimited data, but when they slowed those customers’ data speed down 90 percent the FCC slapped a $100 million fine on the company for failure to disclosure, reports The Hill.
We’re in good position to once again win hottest year on record, reports Bloomberg.
NASA celebrates 50 years of spacewalking, reports Armed with Science.
