Clik here to view.
RQ-4 Global Hawk in shock cancellation news: old planes better than new?
Is new better than old? It would seem not. Industry insiders have leaked that the Pentagon is to cancel the RQ-4 Global Hawk program not just stopping buying new aircraft but to retire the Air Force...
View ArticleGlobal Hawk: Northrop Grumman launches campaign to save program. On Twitter.
The Aviationist wrote a post the other day relating to the fact that industry insiders had leaked that the Pentagon was planning on cancelling the whole Global Hawk program not only not buying any...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Future Drone's World capital? Sigonella, Italy
On Feb. 3, 2012, NATO has finally agreed to implement the AGS (Alliance Ground Surveillance) a project that is based on high-altitude long range UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems), a main operating base and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exclusive Infographic: all Cyber Attacks on Military Aviation and Aerospace...
2011 has been an annus horribilis for information security, and aviation has not been an exception to this rule: not only in 2011 the corporate networks of several aviation and aerospace industries...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ryan Aeronautical photo archive traces development of combat drones from the...
Founded by T. Claude Ryan in 1934, part of Teledyne from 1969 and purchased by Northrop Grumman in 1999, Ryan Aeronautical company has designed, developed and built some of the most innovative and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hand Signals: the next step to controlling UAVs on aircraft carriers
The environment you find on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is constantly monitored. The organized chaos of launches, recoveries and taxi takes place in a totally unforgiving environment for an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
B-2 stealth bomber to get 2 billion dollar upgrades. Including a new email...
It was announced recently that the U.S. Air Force is to move forward with a ten year +2 billion USD upgrade to the fleet of 21 B-2s; an upgrade of the communications systems. The B-2 started rolling...
View ArticleClik here to view.
U.S. drones to be nuclear powered?
It has emerged that Sandia National Laboratories, the U.S. government’s principle nuclear research and development agency, and defense contractor Northrop Grumman are working on powering the next...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Israeli spy blimp crashes near Gaza
An Israel Defence Forces observation airship crashed on May. 4, on the Israeli side of the Gaza border. The spy blimp was performing a routine surveillance deployment in the Gaza sector when a civilian...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Northrop Grumman unveils the new gigantic MQ-4C BAMS Triton drone
On Jun. 14, the U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) unmanned aircraft system (UAS), was unveiled during a ceremony attended by about 300 people at Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
F-5 fighter jet pilot dies in training accident in Spain
On Nov. 2, a Northrop F-5M aircraft belonging to the 23th Wing of the Spanish Air Force (Talavera la Real Air Base), suffered an accident that killed one of his crew, Major and instructor Angel Alvarez...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Networking From on High: Behind the Scenes of NASA’s Spooky WB-57 Jet
At the beginning of December 2012, The Aviationist profiled the return of a NASA B-57 Canberra aircraft from operations in Afghanistan. In addition to supporting academic and high-altitude...
View ArticleClik here to view.
[Video] F-35 sensor capable of detecting hostile ground fire
The Distributed Aperture System (DAS) is going to be one of the key sensors of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. Developed by Northrop Grumman, the electro-optical DAS (EO DAS) surrounds the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An unbelievable image proves the shape of the B-2 stealth bomber was...
There are pictures that don’t need comments. The following one (actually the one above in the composite image) appeared on Reddit hours ago and was posted on various Facebook pages thereafter. It shows...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Video shows U.S. Navy’s new gigantic drone on its first flight
On May 22, 2013, the Triton high-altitude unmanned aircraft successfully completed its first flight from Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale manufacturing plant, California. The unmanned aerial vehicle took...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mystery Flying Wing Drone spotted at Palmdale Air Force Plant 42
Taken from a pilot passing through Palmdale airfield last year, the photo in this post was published by Tyler Rogoway on his Aviationintel.com website. It shows what appears to be a flying wing type of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“New” 41-year old WB-57 Canberra joins NASA fleet of high altitude special...
On Sept. 12, NASA’s latest WB-57F, a 41-year old plane with registration N927NA arrived to Ellington Field, Texas, were it joined the other two flying WB-57Fs, NASA 926 and 928. The aircraft arrived at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Revenge of the Drones: target drone hits side of a Navy’s guided missile cruiser
On Nov. 16, a Northrop Grumman BQM-74 target drone hit guided missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) punching a three to four foot hone in the side of the warship. The mishap occurred at 01.25...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Star Wars Era to come: US Air Force to employ laser cannons on jets by 2030
According to the recently published RFI (Request for Information), the ARFL (Air Force Research Laboratory) is looking forward to development of the laser weapons for next generation fighter jets. Even...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New image of nEUROn European stealth killer drone’s flight trials emerges
On the same day a new large, classified UAS (unmanned aerial system) for ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance) developed by Northrop Grumman and dubbed RQ-180 was unveiled, a new image of the...
View Article
