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Duotech’s Airborne Radar Test Platform Has Arrived
On June 5, 2021, Dan Bader, COO of Duotech Services, arrived at the Macon County Airport (1A5) with Duotech Services' latest radar system testing platform, a Cessna 425 Conquest 1. The weather was perfect for the midday landing at 1A5 located in Franklin, NC. When the...
The New F-15EX Eagle II Sees Its First Training Mission
The F-15 Eagle is a dominant air-to-air platform. This all-weather tactical fighter was introduced into service in July 1972. The primary user for the highly maneuverable twin-engine jet is the United States Air Force, but it has also been exported to Japan, Saudi...
The F-5’s CADC Arms The Pilot With Flight Data
An F-5 Tiger II rips through the cloud bank at 19,000 feet, on the hunt for a U.S. Air Force F-16 Viper. The pilot’s F-5 Nemesis radar scans back and forth and locates a fast-moving target fifteen miles away. The obvious target is the F-16 aircraft and it’s moving...
Elephant Walk of the Osprey
Miramar, California is home to a U.S. Marine Corps installation just outside San Diego. More than 12,000 Marines and Sailors are stationed there. But to most people, Miramar is probably more known for its days as the Naval Fighter Weapons School, also known as TOP...
Black Hawk vs Cougar vs Surion vs Hip – 4 Medium Lift Helicopters Compared
China Burma India Theater - It’s a bit of WWII history that is not known as much as the Pacific campaign or the landings at Normandy. But in this area of operations, something significant occurs that goes mostly unnoticed as the Allies assist the Chinese army fight...
Aging Refueler Could Reach Century Mark Before Retiring From Service
The combat radius is the distance an aircraft can fly to enter air combat, stay, fight and return to base. When supporting the troops on the ground by controlling the airspace or providing close-air-support, the longer the time an air asset can remain nearby for...
15 Facts About U.S. Army Aviation
In 1861, during the beginning of the American Civil War, Thaddeus Lowe held a demonstration of a balloon's ability to carry a man above the battlefield and telegraph enemy troop movements and direct artillery fire. President Lincoln was present for one demonstration...
See the Radar When It Sees You – Take Evasive Action with an RWR
The whop-whop-whop of helicopter blades breaks the night silence. Suddenly, two AH-6M Little Birds and two MH-60M Black Hawk helicopters pop up just over the low ridgeline and sink back down toward the valley trying to stay undetected. The flight is part of the Army’s...
Carrots Go Down In Air Intercept Radar History
It’s about the carrots, or at least that’s what the propaganda said. Have you heard that carrots are good for the eyes? It's been passed along by moms for decades. The vitamin A and beta-carotene are fantastic for healthy eyesight. But, when did carrots and great...
F-4 Phantom – From the Beginning of Its Life Cycle
The F-4 Phantom was born out of what McDonnell Aircraft determined was a need to get the U.S. Navy a superior attack fighter. In 1953, McDonnell began by redesigning their F-3H Demon, one of the Navy’s carrier-based fighter aircraft at that time, to have better...
The P-3 Orion, Enemy Sub Hunter, Also Fighting the War On Drugs
A United States P-3 Orion is on a routine patrol over an area of the eastern Pacific west of Costa Rica in international airspace. Its mission is to search for, locate, and track a narco submarine used by cartels out Central and South America. Once located, it will...
A Renaissance of the Mechanically Scanned RADAR
High power tube-driven Mechanically Scanned Antenna (MESA) RADARs ruled the skies for decades. They were the backbone of the weapon systems onboard the F-16, F-15, and F-18, and were produced by the thousands. But where have they gone and why? Have Actively and...
