MAE Wrap-Up - Dec 9th, 2022
 
 
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December 9, 2022
TOP OF THE ORDER
The Super-Conductor for Aviation with Low Emissions (SCALE) demonstrator aims to promote the adaptation and adoption of superconducting technologies in airborne electrical distribution systems.
WEEK IN REVIEW
Soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and space warfighters must have confidence that these machines of war will operate as intended, and their armaments will work when needed.
AOEW will provide electronic countermeasures against current and future anti-ship missiles for the MH-60R and MH-60S ship-based maritime helicopters.
Marines pick the Silvus StreamCaster 4400 MANET radios for the NOTM communications system on the JLTV and ACV armored combat vehicles.
Trident II D5 is It is the primary U.S. sea-based nuclear ballistic missile, and is deployed aboard U.S. Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT...
Goals are launch and recovery; extended endurance and range; high tactical payload to weight ratio; robust flight controls; and autonomous navigation.
UAVs would have lethal and non-lethal weapons, and would be for units from the 4,413-soldier brigade combat team, to the 10-soldier infantry squad.
Launchers will fire the Army's future long-range Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) -- a surface-to-surface, all weather, precision-strike guided missile.
United Airlines has entered a partnership with battery manufacturer Natron Energy to reduce carbon emissions from its ground operations, Riley Pickett reports for Simple Flying.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
To sharpen their combat skills, military combat pilots need to train in mock air-to-air combat with other pilots operating as adversaries.
The KC-46A is based on the Boeing 767-200 widebody passenger jet. The multirole aerial tanker can refuel U.S., allied, and coalition military aircraft.
A drone owned by FlyTech, an Israeli drone operation company, was controlled by FlightOps, an autonomous system that performed missions day and night without human assistance.
The airline boss is again expressing frustration with the lack of progress on the widebody plane, Joanna Bailey reports for Simple Flying.