Manned and unmanned military aircraft landing on highways not part of a service’s base and station infrastructure is nothing new. Indeed, during the Cold War, Norway was one NATO nation that perfected their jet fighters’ ability to disperse and safely operate where they were not vulnerable. More recently, this May, during US Air Force Special Operations Command’s Exercise Agile Chariot, one MC-130J, an MQ-9 Reaper and two A-10s were the fixed-wing aircraft that completed successful highway landings in rural Wyoming. This September 21, the Royal Norwegian Air Force dramatically expanded the mission envelope of F-35As and for this task, with two of its F-35As landing on a highway in vicinity Tervo, Finland. LtCol Morten Hanche, Air Warfare Center/Fighter Branch, Royal Norwegian Air Force, took time from his busy duties to update MS&T on the training efforts behind the service’s recent hallmark success.
The Day 3 presentation by Adam Breed, an engineering innovation architect at Lockheed Martin, provided the “glue,” so to speak, of an OEM’s insights on high-level, overarching S&T activities. The Orlando-based executive’s presentation Creating a Common Simulation Core Platform to Build Complex Training Scenarios with Unreal Engine furnished delegates with a glimpse of how this major defense company is strengthening and expanding its S&T activities in the Live, Virtual and Constructive training domains.
The new simulator complements Patria’s previously delivered simulators to the Finnish Air Force, but will now have significantly higher accuracy and realism of the system modeling than in the previous simulators.
LONDON, England. NI will feature its latest products and solutions at the upcoming DSEI event in London, focusing on software-defined radio products, with options aligned to OpenCPI and OpenVPX standards, as well as its new T&E Scenario Generator demonstrator, according to a company statement.