The fit check, performed August 2 at the request of the Marine Corps, demonstrated SABR is a low-risk option for installation on F/A-18C/D Hornets and that the radar can be integrated with the aircraft’s power, cooling and avionics systems.I TOLD YOU FREAKS THE AESA WAS THE SECRET SAUCE TO THE F-35's SENSOR FUSION!
“The Marine Corps asked for an Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) solution due to the radar’s increase in reliability and sustainability with no decrease in operational performance,” said Greg Simer, vice president, integrated avionics systems, Northrop Grumman. “The Marine Corps’ stated objective is to modify an in-production, fielded AESA while meeting the current size, weight, power and cooling requirements of the F/A-18 C/D. We have proven our production APG-83 SABR radar fits into the F/A-18 C/D, achieving the objectives and bringing the technical maturity needed to attain the Marine Corps fleet insertion timelines.”
The APG-83 is a multifunction AESA fire control radar that delivers fifth-generation fighter capabilities to counter and defeat increasingly sophisticated threats.
Everything they're supposedly gonna be able to do with the F-35, from radar picket, to being a node in fires and everything in between.
" The APG-83 is a multifunction AESA fire control radar that delivers fifth-generation fighter capabilities to counter and defeat increasingly sophisticated threats. "
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| More than 200 vehicles, including Warrior and Scimitar, make landfall in Oman ahead of Exercise Saif Sareea 3 (Swift Sword), which will see British Armed Forces personnel from all three Services work together with the Omani military |
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| Two HH-60G Pave Hawks provide security for an HC-130J Super Hercules assigned to the 26th Rescue Squadron while simulated survivors are loaded after a training scenario during a combat search and rescue exercise in Iraq, July 15, 2018. The HC-130J replaced HC-130P/Ns as the only dedicated fixed-wing personnel recovery platform in the Air Force inventory. Its mission is to rapidly deploy to execute combatant commander directed recovery operations to austere airfields and denied territory for expeditionary, all weather personnel recovery operations to include airdrop, airland, helicopter air-to-air refueling, and forward area ground refueling missions. Battlefield Airmen assigned throughout the combined joint operational area conduct operations in support of Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve. CJTF- OIR aims to enable and equip local forces to take ISIS head on while leveraging Coalition nation airpower to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria. (U.S. Air Force photo by SSgt Keith James) |
BREAKING: Reports of a serious incident in Göteborg, Sweden, as at least 14 cars are set on fire near a shopping mall - @V_of_Europe Reports. pic.twitter.com/1L6JAzGhBs— BNL NEWS (@BreakingNLive) August 13, 2018
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| NASA's Gateway is the proving ground to take humans further than ever before. Essentially a “space dock”, the Gateway is a place where America and other space-faring nations will be able to perform revolutionary science, establish a lunar commercial economy, and build and test the system elements to get us to other destinations such as the surface of the Moon, asteroids and Mars. Lockheed Martin is studying and creating designs to determine how the Orion spaceship and future habitats will need to interface in the near future. |
