by Fred Donovan | May 8, 2011 | Africa - Other, Alliances, Asia - Central, Bombs - Smart, Britain/U.K., Daily Rapid Fire, Delivery & Task Orders, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Force Structure, Intelligence & PsyOps, IT - General, Middle East - Other, Missiles - Surface-Air, Northrop-Grumman, Russia, Surface Ships - Combat, UAVs, USA
* US intelligence pores over Al Qaeda materials retrieved from Osama Bin Laden’s compound. * RAF Tornado fighters destroy Libyan FROG-7 mobile rocket launchers and missiles as well as Scud missile containers south of Sirte. NATO release * Qadaffi’s regime...
by Joe Katzman | May 8, 2011 | Boeing, Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Corporate Innovations, Design Innovations, Lobbying, New Systems Tech, People, R&D - Contracted, R&D - Private, Spotlight articles, Testing & Evaluation, Transformation, UAVs, USA
X-45C, F/A18F, F-15E(click to view full) In 1998, Boeing began a revolutionary development program: create an unmanned aircraft that was about the size of the USAF’s F-117 stealth fighter, with similar performance, better stealth, and better range. DARPA’s...
