Pentagon Budget 2024: US Air Force requests divestment of 310 aircraft
13 March 2023
by Zach Rosenberg
The USAF has requested to divest a total of 310 aircraft and helicopters during fiscal year (FY) 2024, including the last remaining Boeing KC-10 tankers and the first block of F-22s.
The USAF aims to retire all 24 KC-10s, ending the type's run as the USAF's largest air-to-air tanker. The aircraft will be replaced by the Boeing KC-46. Though smaller and capable of passing less fuel to receivers, the KC-46 is meant to serve as a bridge tanker until the planned introduction of the Next-Generation Air-refueling System (NGAS) in the 2030s.
Northrop Grumman sees bright future for MQ-8 despite US Navy divestments
27 March 2023
by Zach Rosenberg
A Northrop Grumman MQ-8C aboard the USS Jason Dunham in 2021. (Northrop Grumman)
Despite the US Navy's (USN's) recent cuts, entirely divesting the MQ-8B and cutting the follow-on MQ-8C fleet to eight operational helicopters, Northrop Grumman anticipates a bright future for the Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
Turkey showcases TB3 UCAV ahead of first flight
27 March 2023
by Gareth Jennings
Turkey provided a first look at the new TB3 UCAV, ahead of its formal reveal at the Teknofest event in Istanbul to be held from 27 April to 1 May 2023. (Baykar)
Turkey's Baykar has showcased its Bayraktar TB3 unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) ahead of its upcoming first flight.
Images posted online by the manufacturer on 27 March showed for the first time the larger and more capable successor to the TB2.
“Counting the days to [its] first flight”, Baykar’s Chairman of the Board of Directors, Selçuk Bayraktar, posted from his official Twitter account.
General Electric T901 delivery to US Army delayed until boreal fall 2023
21 March 2023
by Zach Rosenberg
The T901-GE-900 prototype engine installed at General Electric's test facility. (General Electric)
Delivery of the General Electric T901 engine to the US Army is now scheduled for boreal fall of 2023, General Electric said in a statement, delayed from spring 2023.
The delivery has been delayed several times; the spring 2023 date was a delay from a then-projected November 2022 delivery.
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