Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare

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Weekly Briefing Air Warfare

Rugged Instrumentation Solutions For Applications With Limited Space White Paper

Presented by Curtiss-Wright

This paper examines the challenges of implementing a data acquisition package and proposes a solution to best meet tight space and installation requirements without compromising system flexibility.

FVL: Sikorsky Shows Off S-97 Scout Chopper For Army The S-97 Raider is Sikorsky's proto-prototype for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft. It's competing with the Bell 360 Invictus — but unlike the S-97, the 360 isn't flying yet.

Ukraine Turns To West For Fighters; Plans To Drop MiG Fleet KIEV: Ukraine, faced with Russian troops on two fronts, has gone public with plans to buy combat aircraft that are not Russian-made. The vulnerable NATO partner plans to become independent of Vladimir Putin's military in a crucial domain. Unlike Poland, which has been operating a "mixed" fleet of US and Russian-made aircraft, Ukraine is evaluating…

BREAKING New Army Long-Range Units Head To Germany The Army will create two new units to coordinate long-range warfare in Eastern Europe: a Multi-Domain Task Force and a Theater Fires Command.

Israelis May Ban High Tech Cars From Bases: 'Perfect Espionage Vector' "Imagine you work at a chemical research part of a base. Its location is secret. But you have a smart car. Through other espionage activities, I found out you work there. I hack your phone or your car's online account," Keatron Evans said. "I track your location as you go to work every day. Now I know the specific GPS location of your work facility. It goes downhill quickly from there."

Army Needs Armor For City Fights: Gen. McConville The Army Chief of Staff defended the service's ambitious modernization program, particularly new armored vehicles and long-range missiles.

FVL: Key RFP Coming This Summer Despite tightening budgets, the Army's pushing ahead with its plan to replace the Reagan-era UH-60 Black Hawk with a high-speed Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA). It'll pick between Bell's V-280 and the Sikorsky-Boeing Defiant-X next year, with the winner entering service in 2030.

Electronic Warfare Apps On Horizon For F-15s, Plus The Air Force wants software "that can be fielded in the next two years and incrementally improved upon and integrated into EW systems currently in development for the F-15."

SMC Revamp Sidesteps Hill's Space Acquisition Worries "Clearly, this is not what Congress intended," one former senior DoD official notes.

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