The National Security Agency (NSA) has certified the new TACLANE- Nano (KG-175N) network encryptor to secure voice, video and data information classified Top Secret/SCI and below traversing public and private IP networks, according to a General Dynamics Mission Systems news release. This NSA certification validates the TACLANE-Nano’s capability to protect the most critical data communications through […]

U.S. Marine Corps has posted a video on social media of AV-8B Harriers tactical aircraft that participated in exercise Tiger Strike 2019 at Blue Beach, Malaysia. AV-8B Harriers with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 163 (Reinforced), 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), takes part in flight operations in support of exercise Tiger Strike 2019. U.S. Marines […]

The U.S. largest defense-and-aerospace company Boeing posted a video of the second flight of its new unmanned refueling aircraft to its Twitter page on Monday. “MQ-25 took to the skies again last week, this time with landing gear up!,” Boeing said on Twitter, pointing that the company “continuing a rigorous flight test program for the U.S. […]

The Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) successfully demonstrated the capabilities of the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) Oct. 1 (local date) during exercise Pacific Griffin, according to a Navy news release. Pacific Griffin is a biennial exercise conducted in the waters near Guam aimed at enhancing combined proficiency at sea while strengthening […]

The U.S. Navy’s primary submarine hunter and anti-surface warfare helicopter, the MH-60R Sea Hawk has received the first two redesigned gunner seats, according to a Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) news release. The new redesigned MH-60S Seahawk gunner seat gunner seats will increase aircrew endurance and mission performance. This delivery is the culmination of innovative, strategic […]

Dynetics, which specializes in the rapid, affordable development of aerospace products, has disclosed further details of the development of a new X-61A reusable unmanned air system that developing for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Gremlins program. The Gremlins program envisions launching groups of unmanned air systems from existing large aircraft such as bombers […]

The U.S. Navy conducted the first East Coast launch of the GQM-163A Coyote Supersonic Sea Skimming Target from NASA‘s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Sept. 12 as part of a fleet missile exercise, known as MSLEX. The Navy’s aerial targets program office (PMA-208) worked with multiple stakeholders to launch two GQM-163A targets, demonstrating operational capability […]

The U.S. Air Force has given the Sikorsky HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) from Sikorsky Milestone C status, which moves the program into low rate initial production. The joint Sikorsky and USAF flight test team has executed over 70 hours of envelope expansion flights, which provided U.S. Air Force the data necessary to execute a […]

Tomahawk missile maker Raytheon Co. on Monday released a short video and revealed new details of its longer-range DeepStrike missile. The new missile is Raytheon’s offering for the U.S. Army’s Precision Strike Missile, or PrSM, requirement. The new PrSM weapon system will be a surface-to-surface, all-weather, precision-strike guided missile fired from the M270A1 Multiple Launch […]

The U.S. aerospace giant Boeing has released air-to-air footage from yesterday’s successful first test flight for the new the U.S. Navy’s unmanned aerial refueler. The first operational carrier-based unmanned refueling aircraft, called the MQ-25 Stingray, successfully completed the first test flight on Sept. 19 at MidAmerica Airport in Mascoutah, Illinois. The Boeing-owned MQ-25 test asset, […]