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  January 24, 2024 | International, Aerospace

  Saab receives order to produce T-7A fuselage systems

  The order from Boeing comes after the first two T-7A Red Hawks successfully arrived at U.S. Air Force bases for developmental flight tests

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  November 28, 2018 | International, Aerospace

  Progress on drone, vehicle engines signals Turkey’s independence from foreign suppliers

  By: Burak Ege Bekdil ANKARA, Turkey — Two Turkish companies have consecutively reported significant progress toward building indigenous engines that would power locally made drones and armored vehicles. State-controlled company Tusas Engine Industries, or TEI, announced the completion of a program for the design, development and production of an indigenous engine that will power the Anka, a medium-altitude, long-endurance drone developed by TEI's sister company, Turkish Aerospace Industries, or TAI. TEI said it successfully integrated the PD170 engine to the Anka drone. The Anka, with the PD170, will go through flight tests later this year. TEI officials said the company already signed a serial production contract with TAI. The next step will be to win certification for the engine. TEI's general manager, Mahmut Akşit, said the PD170 program aims to end Turkey's dependency on foreign engine suppliers. “A further aspect of the program will be exporting the PD170 to foreign countries,” Akşit said. In 2012, TEI signed a contract with Turkey's procurement authority, then Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (now Presidency of Defense Industries), for the development of the PD170. TEI has a partnership agreement with U.S.-based General Electric. Turkish procurement authorities recently announced the selection of GE for the supply of engines to power the initial batch of the TF-X, Turkey's indigenous fighter jet in the making. The twin-engine TF-X will be powered by either the F110-GE-129 or the F110-GE-132 engine. Turkish officials say the GE engine would be a stopgap solution until “we have built our indigenous engine for the TF-X.” Under the deal, the first prototype of the TF-X and an unknown number of initial batches would be powered by an F110 engine. Full article: https://www.defensenews.com/industry/techwatch/2018/11/27/progress-on-drone-vehicle-engines-signals-turkeys-independence-from-foreign-suppliers

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  October 17, 2019 | International, Land

  U.S. Army Pursues Alternatives To GPS

  Jen DiMascio In its attempt to ensure that soldiers have access to GPS-like information, even when access to those U.S. Air Force satellites may be compromised, the U.S. Army is in the process of fielding an alternative system on certain ground vehicles. The Army began fielding the first iteration of the Mounted Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing System (MAPS), an anti-jam GPS alternative, on General Dynamics Stryker vehicles in the 2nd Cavalry Regiment this year. The service will field 300 such systems to the 2nd Cav this year, according to Willie Nelson, director of the Army's Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing Cross Functional Team. Thousands are supposed to be installed into vehicles in U.S. European Command by 2028. On Oct. 15, the U.S. Army announced it had chosen Collins Aerospace to provide a next-generation MAPS for manned ground vehicles. Collins will make MAPS Gen II, systems that will be evaluated for a year and potentially be fielded to 8,000 additional vehicles. The Collins Aerospace system combines the NavHub-100 navigation system and Digital GPS Anti-jam Receiver-100. The system adds a military code capability and modernized signal tracking to improve reliability and integrity, Collins says. The MAPS program is part of the U.S. Army's focus on modernization. But it is also a response to a request from commanders in Europe and Korea, according to Gen. John Murray, commander of Army Futures Command. The Army maintains that its effort to look for alternate means of positioning, navigation and timing is aligned with the U.S. Air Force's plans for GPS satellites. Asked about the threat from Russia, Brig Gen. Robert Collins, program executive officer for intelligence, electronic warfare and sensors, said the U.S. needs confidence not just in the ability of U.S. assets to withstand jamming attacks but to be able to fend off spoofing efforts as well. “The electromagnetic spectrum is becoming contested and people are operating in that space,” Collins said. “We recognize that our traditional GPS today is not where we need it to be from a survivability perspective. So we have looked at how to make it more hardened.” Along with those efforts, the Army has also planned an industry day for Oct. 29-31, as it seeks new inertial measurement unit and timing technologies. https://aviationweek.com/defense/us-army-pursues-alternatives-gps