HENSOLDT and Airdyne join forces for mission aircraft retrofit Orlando/Florida – 23 October 2023 – Sensor solutions provider HENSOLDT joins forces with U.S. mission aircraft supplier Airdyne Aerospace Inc. Brooksville/FL, to jointly offer an integrated and certified mission suite, in a first step specifically for C-130 mission... Read More
LITENING POD AND SABIR FLY IN MAJOR MISER PROGRAM MILESTONE The Air National Guard-Air Force Reserve Test Center (AATC), in cooperation with Airdyne Aerospace and Northrop Grumman Corporation, has recently demonstrated the successful integration and operation of the AN/AAQ-28(V) LITENING targeting pod utilizing the SABIR system aboard an... Read More
GTRI Supports Combat Search and Rescue Missions by Implementing New Imaging Technology The search and rescue (SAR) process begins with an incident that isolates individuals to the point they cannot self-recover. Such an incident could be a downed aircraft, an injured individual (such as a hiker or hunter), or a... Read More
AIR FORCE HC-130J COMBAT KING II RECEIVES NEW SABIR “BUBBLE” DOORS The first batch of the Air Force’s new HC-130J Combat King II aircraft fleet have been outfitted with new SABIR “Bubble” Door assemblies and returned to the sky with great praise from their crews. Eleven... Read More
AIRDYNE AEROPACE PROPOSES SABIR EQUIPPED C-130 SOLUTION FOR ARMED OVERWATCH REQUIREMENT A C-130 utilizing the SABIR system delivers a solution for armed overwatch that would be available more quickly, with more capability, and having greater flexibility with design characteristics that provide for the quick adaptation of new sensor and munitions technologies. Read More
U.S. Government Provides New SABIR System to Enhance Philippine Air Force Capabilities Manila, August 14, 2018 — U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Y. Kim turned over a sophisticated surveillance and reconnaissance system worth PhP807 million to the Secretary of National Defense Delfin N. Lorenzana at Villamor Air Base, Pasay City, on... Read More
THE PHILIPPINE AIR FORCE FINALLY GOT A PROPER MARITIME PATROL AIRCRAFT Finally, after a lot of delays and roadblocks along the way, the Philippine Air Force (PAF) can now really say that it got itself a proper Maritime Patrol Aircraft. This is after decades of not having one in its inventory. A... Read More
‘Harvester’ Could Transform Any US Air Force C-130 Into A Nuke Sniffing Plane With its two WC-135W Constant Phoenix atmospheric sampling jets becoming increasingly difficult to operate and maintain, the U.S. Air Force is looking for additional ways to rapidly scoop up air samples after nuclear weapon tests and other atomic... Read More
US to boost nuke sniffing with modified C-130s WASHINGTON — When the Air Force dispatches aircraft to the Asia-Pacific to monitor the atmosphere for signs of nuclear activity from North Korea, it relies on its WC-135 Constant Phoenix nuke-sniffing planes. But with only... Read More
This Is All The Stuff You Can Hang Out of a C-130’s Rear Paratrooper Doors After more than five decades of steady service, it’s safe to say that Lockheed Martin’s C-130 Hercules family, as well as the civilian L-100 and now LM-100J models, has proven to be an especially... Read More
Danish Heavy Haulers When the Danish Armed Forces need to move large amounts of goods or personnel, the task is given to 721 Squadron’s Hercules Flight. The Flight is based at Aalborg Air Base, also known as Air Transport Wing (ATW) Aalborg, located... Read More
The Airbus A400M Atlas – A Multi-Purpose Platform What this project did (that is related to this post) is prove that a payload pod could be carried on a door mounted arm or stub wing. The benefit of using the paratrooper door is that if the... Read More