Boeing has been awarded two contracts together worth over $2.1 billion to upgrade F-18 Hornet and EA-18G Growler combat aircraft to compensate for the inadequate performance and excessive costs of the Lockheed F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, is awarded a $2,020,956,832 cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. …
Read More »Boeing, U.S. Navy Demonstrate Manned-Unmanned Teaming with Super Hornet Flight Tests
Boeing and the U.S. Navy have completed a series of manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) flight tests in which a Block III F/A-18 Super Hornet successfully demonstrated command and control of three unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Boeing system engineers connected Block III’s adjunct processor, known as the Distributed Targeting Processor – Networked …
Read More »Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod Successfully Integrates With Kuwait F-18 Super Hornet
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), in conjunction with the U.S. Navy, completed its first flight test integrating Sniper® Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP) with the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet for the Kuwait Air Force. Sniper ATP will be located on the Weapon Station 5, an area on the aircraft where pods or weapons attach and …
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