After budget limbo, Northrop Grumman is rapidly fielding F-16 EW suite to Middle East
Northrop is looking to rapidly field 72 IVEWS systems to support urgent operational need in the Middle East.
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Airborne EW: Dominating the spectrum to win battles
It takes a layered defense plan to be survivable, which means jammers to disable, deceive, and disrupt, along with onboard self-protect and off-board decoys.
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Meeting modern airpower needs with faster R&D cycles for propulsion
As aircraft shrink, threats expand, and technology accelerates, aircraft engines must iterate along with the threats.
Angry Kitten electronic attack pod bares its claws during Air Force tests
During a series of flight tests in April, the Air Force added new electronic attack techniques to the Angry Kitten Combat Pod on a daily basis.
Satellite jamming ‘normal’ by militaries during conflict, not peacetime: State Dept. official
WASHINGTON: The Russian military’s jamming of GPS signals and communications satellites in Ukraine is considered by the US government as essentially a routine wartime activity, according to a senior State Department official. Judging from actual real world actions during recent conflicts around the globe, Washington and Moscow appear to be on the same page with […]
IBCS Overcomes Electronic Attacks, Downs Cruise Missile
The test involved electronic attack efforts against radars while previous tests had been directed against the communications systems binding IBCS to its sensors.
SOCOM Likely To Boost Cyber, EW
"Everything we're doing now is going to be hard," SOCOM commander Gen. Richard Clarke said. “It's going to be multi-domain, it's going to be partnered and it's going to be contested in every step...and there are countries that are close on our heels.”
Modern Tech in Indo-Pacific Operations
Explore how networked warfare, AI, and 3D-printed drones are reshaping US Indo-Pacific strategy.
Bibi Said Yes To F-35 Sale To UAE, Eye On Normalized Relations
"Bibi used his open line to the White House to give the OK for this deal," an Israeli source told Breaking D. He did not disclose the F-35 OK to anyone, including Benny Ganz, Israel's defense minister and alternative prime minister.
Air Force Wants Multi-Platform Jammers To Support MDO
The RFI is one of the first industry solicitations since the Air Force announced in April 2019 an overhaul of its EW operations to counter Russian and Chinese advances, and to enable multi-domain operations.
Navy’s New EW Jammer to be Ready in 2022
FARNBOROUGH AIR SHOW The U.S. Navy hopes to start flying its Next Generation Jammer some time next year, though the system won’t reach operational capability until 2022, said Navy Capt. Michael Orr, program manager for the service’s electronic attack systems. As it stands now the Navy’s principal airborne electronic attack systems relies on technology developed […]
At Red Flag ‘It’s Tough To Be Legacy Aircraft In An LO World’
WASHINGTON: “You get whacked a lot.” Those are the words of someone who should know, the leader of the aggressor squadron at Red Flag, the man who tries to kill U.S. forces. Lt. Col. Tyler Lewis, commander of the 57th Adversary Tactics Support Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, echoed comments we’ve heard before, that […]
The questions that warfighters ask the most are now answered with data analytics
CDAO’s Advana data analytics platform is ingesting data from about 500 DoD business systems.
Finmeccanica Unit Claims Counter-Drone Breakthrough
One of today’s toughest defense problems is drones. But not what the Air Force likes to call Remotely Piloted Aircraft that carry missiles and bombs. The bigger threat – one that worries law enforcement and the Secret Service as much as the Pentagon – is drones like the hundreds of thousands Santa brought to kids […]
Navy, OSD Studies Could Save Boeing’s F-18 Line
CAPITOL HILL: Pentagon leaders are pushing hard to keep up the momentum of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Many in the Navy, though, still look longingly back at the Boeing-built F-18 Hornet, whose St. Louis production line faces closure in 2017. There are two independent trends that together could save the St. Louis line and the Navy’s favorite plane. The first […]
Hagel To Unveil Counters To China, Russia
WASHINGTON: Offset strategy. Doesn’t exactly make your hair stand on end or make you go wow. Does it have to do with international arms deals and tradeoffs companies and countries make to win business? No. In fact, the offset strategy Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel should unveil in the next few days may be one of […]