by Tig Tillinghast | Oct 6, 2005 | Aircraft, Boeing, Industry & Trends, Materials Innovations
RTI’s stock room With a booming civil and military aviation market, Boeing is shoring up the reliability of its access to titanium stock. Purchasing.com notes that Boeing is not only securing deals for itself to guarantee access to semiprocessed titanium mill...
by Tig Tillinghast | Oct 6, 2005 | Forces - Air, Helicopters & Rotary, Lockheed Martin, Partnerships & Consortia, Protective Systems - Aircraft
UH-60 Blackhawk Lockheed Martin and Finmeccanica’s Selex are together tackling the market for cable and obstacle avoidance systems in rotary aircraft, according to Rotorhub. One big prize on their collective list is the UH-60 Black Hawk program. The two firms...
by Tig Tillinghast | Oct 6, 2005 | Airbus, Coastal & Littoral, DARPA, Naval Equipment, New Systems Tech, Protective Systems - Naval, Sensors - Aquatic, Submarines, Surface Ships - Combat, Surface Ships - Other, Underwater Weapons
Enjoys Hootie, Green Day Anteon Technologies and BAE Systems are together developing a new anti-torpedo technology for DARPA. The system is an effort to create an array of speakers along the side of a hull arranged so that they can collectively shoot out (and aim)...
by Tig Tillinghast | Oct 6, 2005 | Air Reconnaissance, Aircraft, Asia - Other, China, Coastal & Littoral, Helicopters & Rotary, Issues - International, UAVs
The Eagle Eye Taipei Times reports that the Taiwanese Coast Guard Administration (CGA) will submit a UAV procurement budget to the legislature with a mind to deploy them in 2007 to help keep track of Chinese marine intrusions. Other newspaper reports hold that Bell...
by Tig Tillinghast | Oct 6, 2005 | Field Reports, Forces - Naval, Missiles - Anti-Ship, Project Successes, Protective Systems - Naval, Surface Ships - Combat
AEGIS Combat System(click to view full) A Lockheed Aegis SPY-1D radar on board the USS Russell (DDG 59) Arleigh Burke Class destroyer successfully found and tracked a target missile needle from among a haystack of countermeasures, according to the contractor. The...
