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Air Force Opens New F-16 Production Line for Foreign Military Sales
To support the growing demand for new F-16 aircraft from partner nations, the U.S. Air Force has teamed with Lockheed Martin Co. to open a new production line to build the F-16 Block 70/72 fighter aircraft at the company’s facility in Greenville, S.C.
Launched on Veterans Day 2019, the line is the only production facility for F-16s in the world, opening three years after the company’s long-time F-16 line in Fort Worth, Texas, wrapped up production.
Recently, and on behalf of five foreign military partners, the Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin approximately $14 billion, to build 128 F-16s at the facility through 2026.
Liftoff to orbit in under an hour: Space Force launches missile warning satellite 2 days ago The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket that carried the U.S. Space Force s fifth geosynchronous Space Based Infrared System satellite into orbit sitting on the pad at sunset Monday at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral. (United Launch Alliance) CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla. The Space Based Infrared System provides 24/7 coverage of the globe, detecting the launch of missiles and providing a critical early warning of possible threats to American war fighters. For instance, the satellite system provided U.S. and allied forces a last minute warning to seek cover when Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles at bases in Iraq in January 2020. In 2019, the constellation detected nearly a thousand missile launches.
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Skyborg ACS starts AAAx flight testing
17 May 2021
by Richard Scott
The US Air Force’s (USAF’s) Skyborg Vanguard team has completed initial flight tests of the Skyborg autonomy core system (ACS) aboard a Kratos Unmanned Systems Division UTAP-22 Mako tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
Under Milestone 1 of the Autonomous Attritable Aircraft Experimentation (AAAx) campaign, the ACS performed a series of foundational behaviours necessary to characterise safe system operation. Three flight tests were conducted from Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, between 29 April and 5 May.
The first test flight of the ACS-configured UTAP-22 occurred on 29 April. (AFRL)
The goal of the Skyborg programme is to develop and integrate full-mission autonomy with low-cost, attritable UAV technology to enable manned-unmanned teaming. The Skyborg Vanguard team pairs the Program Executive Officer for Fighters and Advanced Aircraft as the Skyborg Program Executive Officer and the Commander of the Ai