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Northrop F-35 Sensors Deployed in Bold Alligator Maritime Exercise
Northrop Grumman is participating in U.S. Fleet Forces Command’s Joint/Coalition Amphibious Exercise Bold Alligator 2012, employing the company’s BAC1-11 test aircraft to provide F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) sensor capabilities. During Bold Alligator 2012, the BAC1-11 is being configured with the F-35′s AN/APG-81 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar and the AN/AAQ-37 infrared distributed aperture [...]
Boeing, Thales Select EC135 for Helicopter Aircrew Training System
Boeing subsidiary Boeing Defence Australia (BDA) and Thales Australia today named the Eurocopter EC135 as the preferred platform for their bid on the Australian Defence Force (ADF) Project AIR 9000 Phase 7 – Helicopter Aircrew Training System (HATS). “Boeing and Thales’ individual expertise and shared strengths, as well as a strong working relationship spanning more [...]
Royal Navy Pilots Train for Aircraft Carrier Landings
The deck of the new Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers may be the size of four football pitches and supported by the best part of 65,000 tonnes of steel but, from three miles (5km) out, when viewed through the BAE Systems simulator at Warton, it’s tiny and the target area for landing looks even smaller. [...]
L-3 Link to Upgrade Pakistan Air Force F-16 Aircrew Training Devices
L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) announced today that it has been awarded a contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to upgrade two Pakistan Air Force (PAF) F-16C Block 52 Aircrew Training Devices (ATDs) with the company’s new SimuSphere HD-9 visual system display. This award represents the first use of SimuSphere HD-9 on [...]
AF to release draft impact statement on proposed F-35 pilot training center
The Air Force will file a draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed establishment of an F-35 Lightning II pilot training center within the continental United States Jan 20. The current Air Force and Air National Guard installations under consideration are: Boise Air Terminal Airport Air Guard Station, Idaho; Holloman AFB, N.M.; Luke AFB, Ariz.; [...]
Presagis to Deliver Visual Database for F-16 Mission Training Center
Industry leading training application to be developed based on CDB Presagis, a leading provider of commercial-off-the shelf (COTS) modeling, simulation, and embedded graphics solutions, today announced that the company has been contracted by Elbit Systems Ltd. to build a visual database based on the Common Database (CDB) specification. The database will be used by Elbit [...]
Paratroopers learn latest battlefield skills at Fort Polk
Fort Bragg paratroopers bound for Afghanistan picked up the latest skills and equipment from those most recently returned, here at the Joint Readiness Training Center, or JRTC, during the second week of January. Young officers, junior enlisted and noncommissioned officers with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team participated in open-enrollment classes that included [...]
TRADOC: Army must reverse to focus on training
It’s time for the Army to reverse gears after 10 years of war, said the service’s leading proponent of training and doctrine. Gen. Robert W. Cone, commander of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, spoke Thursday about “shaping the Army of 2020.” As keynote speaker at the Association of the U.S. Army’s Aviation Symposium [...]
Cobra Gold 2012 to Promote Partnership, Interoperability
Cobra Gold, the United States’ longest-standing military exercise in the Pacific, kicks off this weekend, bringing together more than 10,000 members of the U.S. and six other militaries to focus on interoperability and multinational coordination and training. Almost 7,000 U.S. service members, most of them Marines from the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force, will participate in [...]
