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 HC-130J Combat...
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 natural disaster....
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 aircraft from...
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.
This...
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 two of...
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 aircraft is...