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Next Generation Air Dominance Programme - Air Force Technology
网页2024年3月8日 · Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) is a highly classified and secretive programme of the US Air Force (USAF) to increase lethality and ensure air superiority. The programme revolutionises the USAF’s modernisation plans by adopting a system-of-systems approach instead of a singular platform. A sixth-generation fighter aircraft will form the ...
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网页India offered to host C-130J MRO facility for IAF fleet. Lockheed Martin has entered a teaming agreement with Tata Advanced Systems – a subsidiary of Tata Group, and one of India’s prominent defence providers – to set up additional infrastructure…. 11 Sep 2024.
Raytheon expand capacity to build the Hypersonic Attack Cruise …
网页1 天前 · The US Air Force (USAF) has awarded Raytheon, a subsidiary of the US defence prime RTX, a $73m deal to enhance its manufacturing capacity to produce the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM). These funds come under the aegis of the ‘Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract’ (EWAAC). This funding mechanism mobilises $46bn for the Air Force ...
C-17 Globemaster III Tactical Transport Aircraft, US - Air Force …
网页2023年11月10日 · C-17 design and features. The aircraft is 53m long and 16.8m high with a wingspan of 51.75m. A propulsive lift system, which uses engine exhaust to generate lift, allows the C-17 to achieve safe landings on short runways. The C-17 is capable of landing a full payload in less than 3,000ft.
Top 10 advanced fighter aircraft - Air Force Technology
网页2019年6月2日 · The F-22 Raptor developed by Lockheed Martin and Boeing is a single-seat, twin-engine fifth-generation advanced tactical fighter. The stealth, integrated avionics and performance potentially makes the F-22 the most capable air-to-air combat aircraft in the world. Inducted by the US Air Force (USAF) as an air-superiority fighter, the F-22 ...
J-20 Chengdu: Mighty Dragon in the heart of China’s military …
网页2022年9月14日 · The modernisation plans include the procurement of the J-20 Chengdu (Mighty Dragon) fifth-generation aircraft to provide critical air support. Work is still ongoing for the Shenyang J-31 programme, another indigenous fifth-generation fighter that follows upon the J-20. “China is in the process of acquiring advanced military technologies and ...
Future of Air Combat: Top Sixth-Generation Fighter Jets
网页2020年11月20日 · MiG-41 is the successor of the MiG-31 interceptor. Image courtesy of kremlin.ru. Russia’s new sixth-generation aircraft MiG-41, also known as PAK-DP, is a future interceptor that will be able to operate at extremely high altitudes at speeds exceeding Mach 4. The MiG-41, a long-range interceptor, is touted to be a replacement for the ageing ...
Innovation at the edge: the top air defence trends by domain
网页2018年5月3日 · The new fourth-generation Chengdu J-20 is the first multi-role stealth fighter in China’s armed forces. Capable of air-to-air and air-to-ground combat, it carries more fuel and weapons than the US F-22 Raptor, and features fifth-generation subsystems and field signature reduction technology.. The Sukhoi Su-57 is a product of the Russian Air Force’s PAK FA fifth-generation fighter programme ...
Skyborg: the US Air Force’s future AI fleet - Air Force Technology
网页2019年8月28日 · The US Air Force is flying at supersonic speeds towards an AI-enabled fleet. Under project Skyborg’s direction, future fighter jets won’t be supported by a wingman, but by an unmanned combat aerial vehicle. Harry Lye finds out more about the unmanned wingman of the future. The Valkyrie drone could become an …