AESA Radar
Raytheon to outfit KAI’s FA-50 with new PhantomStrike radar
Raytheon Technologies announced on May 15 that it will outfit South Korea’s FA-50 Fighting Eagle light combat aircraft with its new PhantomStrike radar, after the US government gave its approval for the system to be exported as a Direct Commercial Sales product to the platform’s original equipment manufacturer, Korea Aerospace Industries
US Navy’s shadowy BUPERS-SDC replaces last P-3C BMUP+ with Poseidon
The US Navy’s mysterious Bureau of Naval Personnel Sea Duty Component (BUPERS-SDC) and Naval Air Systems Command-Flight Support Detachment (NAWC-23) at Dallas Love Field, Texas, has replaced its final P-3C BMUP+ Orion with the P-8A Poseidon
US Air National Guard updates 148th FW F-16s with new radar pods
Subject matter experts from across the USAF gathered at Duluth ANGB in Minnesota to exercise the end-to-end employment of the AN/ASQ-236 Dragon’s Eye radar pod – which was recently fielded on the resident Fighting Falcons of the 148th FW – and to establish a plan to operationalise the pod for all ANG-operated F-16C/Ds
Hensoldt deliver high performance radars to Ukraine for air defence
Hensoldt, a company specialising in modern aviation sensors will be increasing Ukraine’s air defence capability with four of its high performance TRML-4D radars to augment the country’s Diehl Defence’s IRIS-T SLM air defence system
New RAF Typhoon radar still planned for introduction by 2030
The next step of the planned European Common Radar System Mark 2 Active Electronically Scanned Array radar, intended to be fitted to Royal Air Force Typhoon multi-role fighters, will see the completion of a prototype system ahead of manufacturer testing
USMC legacy Hornet flies with Raytheon's new APG-79(V)4 AESA radar
Raytheon Intelligence and Space announced on May 10 that a pre-production version of the company’s APG-79(V)4 AESA radar had successfully completed its first flight on a USMC-operated legacy Hornet