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Future GPS: The USA’s GPS-III Programs

Future GPS: The USA’s GPS-III Programs

GPS IIIA concept (click to view full) GPS-III satellites, in conjunction with their companion OCX ground control, system are the Global Positioning System (GPS) future. They offer big advantages over existing GPS-II satellites and GCS, but most of all, they have to...
Future GPS: The USA’s GPS-III Programs

AGM-65E Laser-Guided Maverick Missiles: Back in Production

AGM-65E onto F/A-18 (click to view full) Raytheon is restarting its production line to produce AGM-65E2/L laser-guided Maverick missiles, and will also upgrade existing stocks, in response to demand from the front lines. The AGM-65 rose to its greatest prominence...
Future GPS: The USA’s GPS-III Programs

SSDS: Quicker Naval Response to Cruise Missiles

(click to view full) Right now, in many American ships beyond its Navy’s top-tier AEGIS destroyers and cruisers, the detect-to-engage sequence against anti-ship missiles requires a lot of manual steps, involving different ship systems that use different...
Future GPS: The USA’s GPS-III Programs

The Wonders of Link 16 For Less: MIDS-LVTs

Link 16 Display (click to see situation) What one sees, all see. Jam-resistant Link-16 radios automatically exchange battlefield information – particularly locations of friendly and enemy aircraft, ships and ground forces – among themselves in a...