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Whirlwind Efforts Add Litening to Tornados

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

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)...

$275M US Contract for LITENING Surveillance & Targeting Pods, Integration, and Support

$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,...

$27M for LITENING Targeting & Recon Pods

$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

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...