US Navy seeks airborne early warning version of the V-22 OspreyThe US Navy is attempting to secure Fiscal Year 2010 funding to develop an airborne early warning (AEW) variant of the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, Jane's was told on 16 June.rnSpeaking at the Paris Air Show,...
Radar also has issues distinguishing between ocean clutter and an aircraft flying below a minimum detectable velocity, says Nicholas O’Donoughue, a senior engineer at think tank RAND Corp, who is a radar signal processing expert. “If their velocity is on the order of the ocean spe...
Honestly, this is self-evident to me. The Air Force always wants more planes, especially offensive aircraft like fighters and bombers. The Army always wants more divisions, more equipment, a bigger Army. The Navy always wants more ships. Who cares if it costs $700 million per plane? Or ev...
On the second day of the exercises, the US sent at least seven reconnaissance and early warning aircraft to waters near Taiwan, according to the Beijing-based South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative. The deployment included a RC-135V and RC-135S for missile surveillance, three P...
United States of America vs Grenada Grenada, the southernmost island nation in the Grenadines in the Caribbean, is a tropic island known as the spice island thanks to the harvesting of nutmeg. It had been a British colony since 1763, but in 1967, it was granted home rule on the road to...
The US Navy (USN) hopes to return a crashed Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol jet to flight status, following a mishap in Hawaii that left the aircraft partially submerged in ocean water. In a 27 November update on salvage operations, navy officials said Poseidon number 561 ...
Type 003 will be the first Chinese carrier with a catapult system that can launch even large propeller-driven aircraft like the KJ-600 into the air. The People’s Liberation Army Navy is advancing rapidly in building up a modern carrier capability, and a new airborne early warning an...
The US Navy and Boeing have completed a second carrier-based aircraft unmanned refuelling mission with the Boeing-owned MQ-25 T1 test asset. This time the MQ-25 refuelled a Navy E-2D Hawkeye command and control aircraft. During a test flight from MidAmerica St Louis Airport, pilots from th...
With U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft acting as their eyes, Polish Naval Strike Missile (NSM) units used their time in Iceland to simulate strikes on enemy ships out at sea. Lt. Bartlomiej Gryglewski, a liaison officer for the Polish navy's naval missile unit, to...
s Surveillance and Theatre Air and Missile Defense (TAMD) missions. The APY-9 provides the enhanced airborne command and control and expanded surveillance for the Navy’s E-2D aircraft. The radar is an all-weather, airborne early warning radar designed to detect small, highly maneuverable ...