Lockheed Martin Skunk Works has completed a live demonstration of artificial intelligence driven mission contingency management on a Stalker XE Block 25 UAV and an Alta X 2.0 drone modified by Drone Amplified.
Lockheed Martin, MBDA and the F-35 Joint Program Office have completed a series of ground based integration tests with the Meteor missile and the F-35A, marking a key step toward future flight trials.
Lockheed Martin has opened a 17,000-square-foot Hypersonics System Integration Lab at its Huntsville campus, marking a major addition to the company’s work in high-speed defence technologies.
Lockheed Martin has introduced Prepar3D Fuse, a new simulation system developed with Blackshark.ai to support military training needs.
Training for the Czech Republic’s future F-35 pilots moved forward last week as members of the 211th Tactical Squadron completed simulator exercises at the Tactical Simulation Centre in Pardubice.
Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre will work with Lockheed Martin over the next six years to develop an e-Pilot capability that strengthens human-machine teaming in military aviation.
After years of uninterrupted cost growth and mounting implementation problems, the programme to modernise the avionics of Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft to the TR-3/Block 4 standard has already exceeded its planned budget by more than six billion US dollars and is five years behind schedule.
Lockheed Martin announced on 21 November that the German state secretary visited the company’s Fort Worth facilities.
Lockheed Martin has introduced the Sniper Networked Targeting Pod, a new variant of its long-serving Sniper pod designed to add high speed communications and processing at the edge of operations.
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Romania is strengthening NATO’s eastern flank through its expanding F-16 capability and the European F-16 Training Center, supported by Lockheed Martin’s training expertise.
Germany has formally selected Lockheed Martin Canada’s Canadian developed Combat Management System 330 for the German Navy surface fleet in a government to government contract projected to exceed $1 billion.
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works said it had controlled an uncrewed aerial system from the cockpit of a 5th gen fighter during a flight from Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.
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