by Joe Katzman | Sep 2, 2019 | Contracts - Modifications, Helicopters & Rotary, Raytheon, Sensors - Aquatic, Spotlight articles, Thales, USA
MH-60R & ALFS, Bermuda (click to view full) The AN/AQS-22 Airborne Low-Frequency Sonar (ALFS) will equip the US Nay’s new MH-60R multi-mission helicopters, serving as their primary anti-submarine sensor. The new FLASH sonar operates using lower frequencies...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 26, 2019 | Boeing, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, FOCUS Articles, General Dynamics, GPS Infrastructure, Honeywell, IT - Software & Integration, Lockheed Martin, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Raytheon, Satellites & Sensors, T&C - SAIC, T&C - SRI, USA
GPS IIIA concept (click to view full) GPS-III satellites, in conjunction with their companion OCX ground control, system are the Global Positioning System (GPS) future. They offer big advantages over existing GPS-II satellites and GCS, but most of all, they have to...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 20, 2019 | Contracts - Awards, Delivery & Task Orders, Field Reports, Missiles - Precision Attack, People, Raytheon, Support Functions - Other, USA, Warfare - Lessons
AGM-65E onto F/A-18 (click to view full) Raytheon is restarting its production line to produce AGM-65E2/L laser-guided Maverick missiles, and will also upgrade existing stocks, in response to demand from the front lines. The AGM-65 rose to its greatest prominence...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 19, 2019 | C4ISR, Contracts - Modifications, Electronics - General, IT - Software & Integration, Protective Systems - Naval, Raytheon, Surface Ships - Combat, Surface Ships - Other, USA
(click to view full) Right now, in many American ships beyond its Navy’s top-tier AEGIS destroyers and cruisers, the detect-to-engage sequence against anti-ship missiles requires a lot of manual steps, involving different ship systems that use different...
by Joe Katzman | Aug 9, 2019 | Alliances, Americas - Other, Asia - Central, Asia - Other, Australia & S. Pacific, Avionics, BAE, Britain/U.K., C4ISR, Canada, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Europe - Other, Germany, Japan, Middle East - Other, New Systems Tech, Official Reports, Other Corporation, Project Failures, Project Successes, Saudi Arabia, Signals Radio & Wireless, Small Business, South Korea, Spotlight articles, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, Testing & Evaluation, Thales, Turkey, USA
Link 16 Display (click to see situation) What one sees, all see. Jam-resistant Link-16 radios automatically exchange battlefield information – particularly locations of friendly and enemy aircraft, ships and ground forces – among themselves in a...
