Shame on them. Sacking a general for passing to the public some advices right in line with the core of his professional experience and for the benefit of the services, this was until late scarcely heard outside… Of Moscow.
“At about 4:30 PM Eastern Time, the F/A-18F Super Hornet on a routine training flight, crashed while on final approach to Boca Chica Field on Naval Air Station, Key West, Florida,” said Cmdr. Dave Hecht, spokesman for Naval Forces Atlantic. “At this time, that is all the information I have.”
CH-53K concluded critical enveloppe expansion test when lifting 36000lb:
Lockheed Martin has announced the completion of envelope expansion flight tests of the Sikorsky-built CH-53K King Stallion helicopter at a facility in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The CH-53K aircraft lifted a 36,000-pound external payload during a flight demonstration held Feb. 10 at Sikorsky’s facility in Florida, Lockheed said Wednesday.
“This aircraft is mechanically and technologically amazing. It fits directly into the National Defense Strategy as far as heavy lift for distributed operations in whatever theater you’re talking about.
“We’ve got about 800 hours on the airplane right now in the test sequence and we are working through all the reliability issues early on.
“We have frontloaded reliability and spares of this airplane. It is meeting quite — when I say it gets the Marine and naval force off our amphibious ships or wherever you are in a manner which cannot be accomplished by any other aircraft in DOD.
“We have KPP for 110 nautical miles lifting up 27,000 pounds. We’ve met that. As a matter of fact, we just lifted 36,000 pounds with this airplane the other day. That’s the highest.
“Now, I won’t want to argue with our Russian counterparts because they’ve got a helicopter that might have lifted more than that, but in the free world that’s the largest lift of any helicopter that we’ve done.
“So it is performing to that level that allows us as we look at the things that we are buying like the JLTV, and we just lifted one the other day that was 19,000 pounds. We’re able to lift that with ease.
“We’re able to dual lift Humvees, full up armored Humvees. So that capability allows maneuver on the battlefield.
“I think another thing I’ll say just for the logistics experts in here is we built that thing to be able to slide in 463L pallets. Those are the standard DOD pallets, so you can park a C-17, C-130, no tail-to-tail with this thing.
“You just roll pallets off right into the back of this helicopter and you can’t do that with any other system….
“It’s composite. It is fly by wire. It is one of those helicopters you can fly hands off and it’s really going to help us in another area that we have challenges with over the years.
“That’s a degraded visual environment zero visual conditions in the desert. So that stability, that helicopter will help us greatly in that environment.”
Publication of the latest detailed investigation report from the Malaysian authorites has been delayed upon completion of the latest search campaign:
9. The publication of the detailed investigation report, that is the Safety Report, based on currently available information has been suspended pending the outcome of the latest search effort, since any new evidence uncovered is likely to significantly affect the investigation. In the event that the aircraft is found, the Team will conduct further investigation. If the aircraft is not found and a decision is made to discontinue the search, the Team will resume the completion of the report and release it in the months ahead.
Where did you read that ? Falcon prod will be down 25% next year (and with equal RoI), Rafale prod was 9. So are you additioning all the production lines do find that slight previsional ramp-up?
You know that we are talking about a UCAV… a robot. There are no comparaison in cost regarding sustainability. Hence you can clearly get the two design fielded if they are compatible enough: one reco that will be flown a lot and one attack version that will be used only in anger. One could be highly stealthy, the other only have a mix of stealth and EA means to remain credible at a lower price/unit.
sounds like distributed exhaust: classical inlets and challenges with the geometry and massflow at the exit. We were surprised when the photo was released to see no exhaust systems on the plane, but now it seems to get clearer with probably a distributed exhaust along the trailing edges.
By mentioning 2021 for a multi/year buy they are also putting the emphasis on the secured perspective for LM. I would guess that this could ease their yearly contract negotiation (did they reach an agreement already?).
Procurement is inclused: parts, systems, subcontractors. All in all it doesn’t sound off the margin for such a large project (tri-versions as you stated and very high Number of airframe).
it might be good to read the editor’s note (for once):
Japan has decided that it will seek foreign help in creating a successor for its F-2 fighter fleet and a request for information (RFI) will be sent out to U.S. aerospace companies this week,” according to the Alert 5 website.
Like you said, there was no better time for a switch in both department: the skunks get the head of the biggest program in LM giving them momentum for their future project and the F-35 guys got a manager able to drive the program across its array of suppliers. At a time when the White houses is putting the emphasis on wages across the F-35 program (remember the campaign), perhaps we can expect hard negociations inbound for thoses hosted by international participants that did not commit to their buy engagement at a fast enough pace (opening opportunities for new entrants?).
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