Tactical fighter links
July 13th, 2009 | Aviation Blogs Science and technology Ships Washington | Posted by Phil Ewing
An F/A-18E Super Hornet of VFA 137, the "Kelstrels," takes off from the carrier Abraham Lincoln in 2008 //MC2 James Evans/Navy
Chaff- and flare-launchin’, afterburner hittin’, 7-G pullin’, AIM-120 AMRAAM-shootin’, supersonic-flyin’ links, now rolling up to the waist cats and ready for launch:
- Defense giant Boeing has some sexy new designs for an “F/A-XX” sixth-generation manned carrier-borne fighter jet, which it hopes could replace its F/A-18 Hornets in a few years… Lockheed Martin, builder of the Navy’s F-35C Lightning II, might have something to say about that.
- They had “perfect weather” this weekend for the keel-laying of the Navy’s third littoral combat ship, Fort Worth.
- Local boosters have picked an island in Pascagoula, Miss., where they hope they can set up the decommissioned cruiser Ticonderoga as a museum ship.
- Not only are the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research interested in a new anti-ship missile design, the Navy has asked missile-builder Raytheon to develop a way to hit ships with its Block IV Tomahawk cruise missiles.
- Galrahn noticed a very interesting detail in the Senate Armed Service Committee’s defense bill markup language
