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Northrop Grumman is CIRCM winner Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Rolling Meadows, Illinois, was awarded a $35,372,762 cost-plus-fixed-fee, fixed-price incentive, and firm-fixed-price hybrid contract with options for engineering and manufacturing development and low-rate initial production of the Common Infrared Countermeasure program. Work will be performed in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, with an estimated completion date of Oct. 28, 2017. Bids were solicited via the Internet with two received. Fiscal 2015 research, development, testing, and evaluation funds in the amount of $35,372,762 were obligated at the time of the award. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity (W58RGZ-15-C-0067). http://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract-View/Article/615285

incident Tyndall AFB May 21, 2012 F-22A 02-4037 "TY"

Japan plans missile-guidance system to optimize flightpaths and detect difficult tar An air-to-air missile using target-motion prediction will follow a straighter, shorter path to the target. ​Japanese defense technologists are working on an anti-aircraft missile guidance system that would improve reaction to stealthy targets by predicting their movements. By calculating where a maneuvering target will be, the system can detect low-radar-cross-section aircraft at longer ranges and optimize the flightpath of the missile, says the defense ministry’s Technology Research and Development Institute (TRDI). The work is part of a TRDI technology-acquisition program for air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles and is being undertaken as China and Russia develop stealth aircraft. The method by which the system improves detection is not spelled out, but appears to be based on the idea that a seeker will be more successful if its scanned field is narrower. The sensor, when activated for terminal guidance, is more likely to pick up a fleeting target if, thanks to a fairly precise prediction of the enemy aircraft’s location, it can concentrate on a smaller patch of sky. TRDI’s illustrations show the technology employed by active-radar missiles. The project began in 2013 and is due to end in 2017, says TRDI. A basic design, Guidance Unit Type 1, was reviewed in April, with ground testing planned later in 2015 to support the development of a Guidance Unit Type 2. More ground testing is planned for 2017, along with a “physical simulation test.” Key elements of the system include “target-motion estimation filter technology” and “guidance-navigation technology based on target-motion prediction.” Apart from improving detection, the Japanese aim to guide the missile on a shorter, and thus faster, trajectory. The first air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles, in the 1940s and 1950s, simply pointed at their targets. Because the targets moved, the missiles followed a curved path. With the introduction of proportional navigation, later weapons headed toward where targets maintaining course and velocity would be, although changes in target direction and speed would still force the missile to change course, wasting energy, losing range and extending engagement time. TRDI’s diagrams show that its system goes a step further by predicting where a turning target will be. Ideally, the missile should adjust for changes in target velocity too, but TRDI does not mention such a feature. With a target directly ahead of the firing aircraft and both flying at 12,000 meters (40,000 ft.) altitude, application of target-motion prediction reduces the flight time of the missile to intercept by 12%, to 13.2 sec. from 15.0 sec., TRDI says. Missile-seeker and guidance technology is closely guarded. Other countries may be working on the same idea or even have it in service. But it is at least new to Japan. In 2013 European missile-maker MBDA was working on a system intended to increase the effectiveness of air-to-air missiles by predicting the target’s maneuvers. Details are scanty, but the algorithms were supposed to make the missile more effective and give the pilot a better idea of the likelihood of a kill and suitable timing for disengagement. It is not clear what role the firing aircraft or ground-launch apparatus plays in TRDI’s new guidance system. The planned weapons intended to benefit from Japan’s work are the NSAM, a medium-long-range surface-to-air missile, and the NAAM, the successor to the current Mitsubishi Electric AAM-4 medium-range air-to-air missile. The latest version of the latter, the AAM-4B, has a seeker with an active, electronically scanning array (AESA). That technology alone improves performance against stealthy targets, because it can transmit greater radio power for a given antenna size. Moreover, Japan, like other countries, is working on radars using gallium-nitride transistors, which further increase transmission power. For target-location prediction, an AESA radar, capable of instantaneous adjustment of beam and scanning field, would offer the advantage of agile switching to a newly estimated location. Conceivably, it might also instantaneously tighten or widen the scanning field according to the confidence of a location prediction. TRDI intends that the NSAM surface-to-air firing apparatus will draw information not only from radars specifically assigned to it, as would be the case in an older system, but also from a single integrated air picture built up by many radars on a network. In diagrams explaining the concept, TRDI shows a traditional system with two radars that fail to see the target, while on an integrated network, the target is detected and tracked, thanks to the availability of different types of radars looking from different directions. Some are remote from the launcher. Sensor data would be compressed before being sent on to the network, TRDI says. Apart from the plan to incorporate target movement prediction, no information about NAAM appears to have been made available. http://www.w54.biz/showthread.php?1157-Japanese-Airforce-2011-and-onwards/page6#post55744

U.S. Navy Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 7 Fires APKWS II for the 1st Time

P-47 Flack Damage Lt Edwin King with his oil drenched P-47.

Curtiss XF-87 Blackhawk

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Lockheed YF-22A concept Lockheed STOVL concept May88

just Lockheed Martin is necessary sell more and more JASSM for air force existing agm-130's do not generate $

that's what happened to the AGM-130 the LAST AGM-130 in service BLU-109 was dismantled rocket motors burn out other things was sent to recycling

typical R-60 missile

north korea

4:27 на kill-TV применение УАБ GBU-15, а А-10 запускает AGM-65, мухлеж :glare: к страйк иглам или 111-м примазываються

Hellfire II but P and N

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