‘Physics Are Physics’: Lockheed Sees More Big, Complex Sats
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“Physics are physics,” says Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Space. “There are still some things for which a geostationary approach makes more sense. There are other areas that a Low Earth Orbit makes more sense, and everything in between.”
Lockheed Teams With Airbus, ELTA, Rafael For Israeli Contracts & US Cash
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Sikorsky Touts CH-53K’s Ease of Flying For German Sale
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Dan Schultz, Sikorsky president, calls the CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter an “optimally piloted” aircraft that allows ease of flying even in hellish weather conditions.
Lockheed Adds Some Israeli SPICE To Kinetics Market
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It’s a global coming-out party for the precision munition, already used by the Israeli Air Force in Syria.
Ellen Lord: Lot 12 Contract For F-35s Soon
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The Pentagon says a new F-35 deal is coming this summer, and promises more costs savings even as the program struggles to get needed spare parts.
F-35 Parts Problems At Heart Of Low Readiness Rates: GAO
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“F-35 aircraft performance is falling short of warfighter requirements—that is, aircraft cannot perform as many missions or fly as often as required. This lower-than-desired aircraft performance is due largely to F-35 spare parts shortages and difficulty in managing and moving parts around the world”
FARA: Army Awards 5 Design Contracts; Winner Enters Production in 2028
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Awards for Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft designs went to Bell, Boeing, Karem, Sikorsky, and a partnership of AVX and L-3.
Baby Steps For Defiant As Army Accelerates FVL
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The Sikorsky-Boeing super-copter has just over an hour of flight time, but the Army says it has all the data it needs to accelerate the program. How?
What About JMS? Air Force Reanimates ‘Old Clunker’ Space Tracking System
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JMS was supposed to revolutionize how the US tracks objects in space. Its billion-dollar bust means the Air Force must revive SPADOC, a widely reviled vestige of the 1980s.
US Halts F-35 Parts Shipments To Turkey
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WASHINGTON: The US economic vice is beginning to tighten on Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey, who has made it a mark of his presidency to test just how far he can stretch the bonds that knit his country to NATO and the United States. The Pentagon announced today, as my Reuters’ colleague Mike Stone… Keep reading →