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Northrop Grumman’s Long Range Strike Bomber to project US power throughout the Globe long into the future

October 31, 2015 Air Force Comments Off on Northrop Grumman’s Long Range Strike Bomber to project US power throughout the Globe long into the future

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III announced that Northrop Grumman had won its bid to be the builder of the Long Range Strike Bomber (LRSB), the Air Force’s replacement for its aging B-52 and B-1 …

Raytheon’s blimps designed to protect US cities from Cruise Missiles to Rogue aircraft, becomes Rogue itself

October 30, 2015 Air Force Comments Off on Raytheon’s blimps designed to protect US cities from Cruise Missiles to Rogue aircraft, becomes Rogue itself

The US Army had launched a second JLENS aerostat in Aug 2015 to increase cruise missile early warning coverage of the East Coast, joining one first launched in December 2014. However in Oct 2015, one of them got untethered from its base at Aberdeen Proving Ground, a U.S. Army facility …

T3: Triple Target Terminator’s Terminus Supersonic long Range Missile

January 4, 2014 Air Force Comments Off on T3: Triple Target Terminator’s Terminus Supersonic long Range Missile

DARPA awarded two competitive development contracts to Boeing and Raytheon in early 2011( Both $21.3 million each) , to conduct conceptual design and development of a multi-mission air/air and air/ground missile dubbed ‘Triple Target Terminator’ (T3).

US Air force developing Killer Drones

March 4, 2013 Air Force Comments Off on US Air force developing Killer Drones

The airforce vehicle laboratory released a computer generated video to show off the capabilities of flying UAVs they are designing. They tiny robots can fly like birds, crawl like spiders, hover like bees and can also attack a human target with a weapon.