DefenceTalkLockheed Martin successfully operated its full-scale prototype long-range air surveillance radar during a recent capability demonstration to the U.S. Air Force. The Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar (3DELRR) will serve as the principal Air Force long-range, ground-based sensor for detecting, identifying, and reporting aerial targets. This next-generation system will replace the Air Force’s AN/TPS-75 air search […]https://www.defencetalk.com/lockheed-martin-completes-long-range-surveillance-radar-demonstration-48628/

DefenceTalkThe first Tranche 3 Typhoon, BS116, has been transferred from final assembly to the paint shop facility where it spent two weeks getting a makeover – check out the video and learn more about the painting process. Next pit stop The Tranche 3 jet will progress to the hush house, our sound-proofed engine testing facility, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/first-tranche-3-typhoon-is-on-the-move-48605/

DefenceTalkThe Missile Defense Agency will soon have available a deployment-ready AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar to help counter the more than 6,300 ballistic missiles outside of U.S., NATO, Russian and Chinese control. Raytheon has delivered a cooling equipment unit (CEU) — a crucial component of the AN/TPY-2 radar — more than 14 months early, supporting […]https://www.defencetalk.com/early-hardware-delivery-enables-deployment-of-crucial-missile-defense-radar-48517/

DefenceTalkBoeing Company has awarded Raytheon Company a follow-on contract for the sixth production lot of APG-63(V)3 active electronically scanned array radars for United States Air Force and Air National Guard F-15C aircraft. “We have been a partner on the F-15 for more than 40 years,” said Mark Kula, vice president of Tactical Airborne Systems for […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-awarded-contract-for-f-15c-aesa-radars-48127/

DefenceTalkAn F-16 Fighting Falcon’s radar warning emits an eerie, distinct pattern as the jet soars over the Northern Pacific Ocean, moving closer and closer toward hostile territory. The warning tone means one thing — missiles are inbound. This can end one of two ways: a surface-to-air missile, or SAM, rips through the jet, or the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/misawa-fighter-jets-break-new-training-barriers-47680/

DefenceTalkTo a pilot, a radar is only as useful as the information it provides, and Northrop Grumman’s Big SAR (synthetic aperture radar) mapping for the Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) delivers the largest, sharpest radar images ever available in an F-16. The company’s SABR has successfully demonstrated several advanced radar capabilities for the F-16, including […]https://www.defencetalk.com/northrops-sabr-gives-f-16-pilots-the-big-picture-47526/

DefenceTalkThe Pentagon late Thursday said North Korea does not have nuclear-armed missiles, playing down an intelligence report leaked earlier in the day which said Pyongyang had the capability to build atomic warheads that could be fitted on missiles. Pentagon spokesman George Little says it would be inaccurate to suggest the North has fully tested, developed, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pentagon-inaccurate-to-say-north-korea-has-nuclear-armed-missiles-47447/

DefenceTalkGuam has raised its official threat level and on Thursday tested its emergency alert system after warnings from North Korea identifying the island as a potential missile target. With a North Korean missile test expected at any time, authorities said the US territory in the western Pacific was on yellow alert, the middle phase of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/guam-heightens-alert-level-after-north-korea-threats-47445/

DefenceTalkFollowing an extensive refit, HMS Portland has become the final Royal Navy Type 23 frigate to be fitted with Thales UK’s Sonar 2087, a towed array sonar system that enables warships to hunt submarines at considerable distances and locate them beyond the range from which they can launch an attack. Portland has now returned to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/final-royal-navy-frigate-gets-sonar-upgrade-47439/

DefenceTalkIt takes a crisis to concentrate the mind. Faced with unusually bellicose rhetoric from the regime in Pyongyang, the Obama Administration reversed course on National Missile Defense (NMD) and is rapidly bolstering its theater air and missile defenses in the region. The Department of Defense will add 14 ground based interceptor missiles to 30 currently […]https://www.defencetalk.com/crisis-in-northeast-asia-makes-the-case-for-jlens-47395/