Tag: Northrop Grumman
China’s Next Generation Unmanned Assassins
JR Ng - China has been steadily pushing ahead in its development of stealthy, unmanned deep penetration aircraft in recent years.
The People's Republic of...
Lockheed Martin’s F-21 Hunts Indian Air Force Contract
David Oliver - On the first day of Aero India 2019, Lockheed Martin launched a new aircraft aimed at the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) requirement...
JASDF Will Get Four E-2D Hawkeye’s by 2020
Jon Lake - Northrop Grumman has been contracted to begin work on the second batch of nine E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning and...
Turkish F-35 deal in doubt
Against a background of steadily worsening relations between the USA and Turkey, the US Government has passed legislation temporarily banning deliveries of the Lockheed...
Sounding Warnings Sooner
Most of the advanced military nations have some kind of Airborne Early Warning & Control systems (AEW&C). In the past the role has been...
MANPAD Menace
Countering the MANPAD threat consistently challenges industry’s design and development teams.
One of the most unpredictable and terrifying asymmetric threats to military fixed-wing aircraft and rotorcraft...
We want what you have
There is a clear demand for unmanned aerial technology in the Asia-Pacific, as territorial disputes and large EEZs (Exclusive Economic Zones) are leading nations...
Doing more than it says on the Tin
Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft can do much more than their acronym suggests. The increasing ability of these platforms to perform land and sea...
Unmanned, Unblinking Eyes Over The Ocean
The ramp-up of capability in terms of MALE/HALE operations is happening, although fully operational systems in many cases are still some years away. ...
David versus Goliath
The Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF), as part of that country’s armed forces, faces a nearly impossible primary mission on paper, to defend...