AEROSPACE AND MILITARY NEWS
Usually, you want your flying vehicles to be extremely visible because you want other aircraft to know where you are using radar and other wavelengths of light. The exception is military aircraft, which very much don’t want to be seen, and so various technologies have been employed to reduce the reflection and emission of both … Read More “China Has Designed A New Stealth Aircraft That Uses Plasma” »
Negotiations with the US Air Force over the cost of the E-7 Wedgetail are still ongoing, a Boeing executive confirmed at the Singapore Airshow. By COLIN CLARK SINGAPORE AIRSHOW — Using a drone, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems, Boeing’s new method of inspecting airplanes for damage and structural issues is allowing the aerospace giant to … Read More “Boeing turns to drone inspections of military planes, still negotiating Wedgetail price with US” »
The Boeing F-15EX Eagle II got its seal of approval from Lt Gen Michael A Loh, Director of the US Air National Guard, for its operability as it can carry more weapons and fly longer distances and its easy integration into the service than the stealth F-35A. The all-weather multirole strike fighter is, incidentally, the … Read More “F-15EX ‘Hot Choice’ Over F-35 Stealth Fighters; Top US Official Says Will Push For More Air Superiority Jets” »
The aircraft is expected to be able to reach wind speeds of up to Mach 0.7. X-65 is a technology demonstrator aircraft being developed by Aurora Flight Sciences, a subsidiary of US-based aircraft company Boeing, under the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) programme. The aircraft … Read More “Could DARPA’s enigmatic X-65 plane revolutionise aircraft design?” »
