U.S. Marine Corps’s Expeditionary F-18s with LITENING AT Targeting Systems
Fri, 12 Aug 2005, 09:49
ROLLING MEADOWS: Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Marine Corps to begin outfitting their F/A-18 Hornet aircraft with LITENING AT pods and pylons. LITENING AT is a self-contained, multisensor laser target-designating and navigation system and the pods are equipped with the new data link “plug-and-play” technology that enables them to accept a variety of data links without any modification to the pod or aircraft.
The $40 million contract calls for the delivery of 24 pods and associated mounting pylons and spares beginning immediately and continuing through early 2006.
The LITENING AT pods being supplied to the Marine Corps will be “left handed,” or designed to be installed on pylon station four, the same location that the current pods are installed on F/A-18C/Ds.
Sign In
August 12, 2005 at 4:55 pm