Finnish F/A-18D(click to view full) June 16/08: Northrop Grumman Corp. in Rolling Meadows, IL received a $9.1 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed price contract (N00019-08-C-0007) for hardware and services required to operate and maintain AN/AAQ-28...
$18M Prepares Datalinks for Next-Gen LITENING
LITENING AT parts(click to view full) The LITENING family of pods has become the most widely-used international solution for adding sophisticated surveillance and precision strike capabilities to fighter and bomber aircraft, defining the price:performance target for...
Whirlwind Efforts Add Litening to Tornados
LITENING III on GR4(click to view full) In September 2006, QinetiQ was assigned the system integrator role for an Urgent Operational Requirement (UOR) program to integrate RAFAEL's LITENING III surveillance and targeting pods onto the RAF's Tornado GR4 attack aircraft...
Dutch RNAF Selects LITENING AT Targeting-Surveillance Pods
LITENING AT on US F-16C(click to view full) The Royal Netherlands Air Force, which has already selected RAFAEL's REECELITE pod for aerial reconaissance, recently selected [release in Dutch] Northrop Grumman & RAFAEL's 3rd-generation LITENING Advanced Targeting (AT)...
LITENING for UK’s Eurofighters
Eurofighters w. LITENING(click for full picture) Ultra Electronics Holdings announces that its Sonar & Communication Systems business, based in Greenford, Middlesex, has been selected by the UK Ministry of Defense to supply and support LITENING III variant...
US LITENING Pod Upgrades Completed
LITENING AT(click to view full) Northrop Grumman announced that it has completed the successful integration of new target detection, acquisition and tracking capabilities into all 189 previously fielded U.S. LITENING pods on the AV-8B, A-10, B-52, F-15E, F-16 and...
$275M US Contract for LITENING Surveillance & Targeting Pods, Integration, and Support
A-10s with LITENING(click to view full) RAFAEL joint-venture partner Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. in Rolling Meadows, IL received a maximum $275 million indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity, firm fixed price contract from the USA for LITENING targeting pods,...
$6.8M to Support AV-8 Harrier II’s LITENING Pods
LITENING II on AV-8B DID has covered the Marine Corps' AV-8B Harrier II's discovery of its niche in the Global War on Terror - and after a very effective program officer, the next most important factor was the planes' new Rafael/Northrop-Grumman LITENING surveillance...
$27M for LITENING Targeting & Recon Pods
LITENING AT(click to view full) Northrop Grumman Corp. in Rolling Meadows, IL received a $27 million indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract modification to provide for LITENING advanced airborne targeting and navigation pods for U.S. Navy, Army, and Marine...
Eurofighter’s Future: Tranche 3, and Beyond
Italian Eurofighters (click to view full) The multi-national Eurofighter Typhoon has been described as the aerodynamic apotheosis of lessons learned from the twin engine "teen series" fighters that began with the F-14 and F-15, continued with the emergence of the...