Show season is on! KVE will be present on the ILA in Berlin next week Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th of June. Visit us at the Dutch pavilion 🌷 in Hall 4, Booth 333.
Auke Jongbloed and Maarten Bach are keen to explain our composite solutions:
✈ Welding of thermoplastic composites
🚁 Rotor blades for urban air mobility & military drones
📡 Radomes & radar structures
See you in Berlin!
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🚨Breaking News🚨
Airbus recently revealed a new fighter-type drone concept, called Wingman, at Berlin’s ILA Airshow. Acting as an unmanned escort for fighter jets, the aircraft is “designed to operate in a similar way to an actual wingman,” taking on high-risk mission tasks that would pose a bigger threat to manned-only aircraft. It will be commanded by a pilot in a current combat aircraft such as the Eurofighter.
The Wingman mock-up displayed at the ILA Airshow is a pure ‘show aircraft’ which does not reflect the future selection of product materials. The mock-up was made from an iron structure and composite outer skin.
The 1:1 model exhibited showcased all of the foreseen capabilities required of this kind of aircraft, such as low observability, the integration of various armaments, advanced sensors, connectivity and teaming solutions. As with “show cars,” Airbus notes that not all of what is on display may find its way into series production. In this aspect, the model on display served as a foundation and catalyst to drive the design requirements for each generation of the Wingman.
Based on the current concept, the Wingman is intended to augment the capabilities of current manned combat aircraft with uncrewed platforms that can carry weapons and other effectors.
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Source: Airbus
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🤩 Boeing demonstrated manned-unmanned teaming of a digital F/A-18 Super Hornet and MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aircraft.
In a simulator lab, a Boeing-led team virtually demonstrated an F/A-18 pilot commanding the drone to refuel the Super Hornet using existing communications links.
“MQ-25 is designed to typically receive commands from air vehicle pilots on an aircraft carrier,” F/A-18 New Product Development lead Alex Ewing explained. “This software will add a second option, enabling pilots to initiate commands right from their cockpit.”
The software significantly reduces communication time between the two platforms, offering the pilots greater flexibility in refueling over longer distances.
“The goal of the demonstrations was to make MUM-T refueling as real as possible,” Advanced MQ-25 program director Juan Cajigas said.
“Aerial refueling is like a ballet as two airplanes come together. To be able to direct the activities via a single pilot, safely and efficiently, is a major step forward in aerial refueling technology.”
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Some thought leadership and insight from our founder Carl C.
This news will see a remarkable surge in the progress of enterprises like Red 6 Inzpire Limited, Kratos Defense and Security Solutions. However, there remains a salient concern – the divergent mindset of decision-makers at the funding helm. The query arises: if Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) prove adept at outmaneuvering fifth-generation fighters, what rationale supports the continued use of human-manned aircraft?
Numerous factors advocate the retention of piloted military aircraft. It appears that someone within the Pentagon grapples with the undeniable trajectory. Could it be a hesitance to openly acknowledge the insight echoed by Elon Musk of SpaceX in his recent conversation with a high-ranking USAF officer?
The actuality is that the pace of change is sluggish, hindered by the entanglement of defence agencies restrained in civilian political dynamics. How much longer shall leaders of the free world traverse this uncertainty?
Just recently, China displayed its dominance in the realm of UAS quadcopters, spanning delivery and security applications. A new product launch from them this week threatens to overshadow several US drone companies. Personal inclinations aside, the reality stands unwavering – Chinese DJI products exhibit superior advancement, intuitive operation, and overall performance in the compact UAS sector. If this prowess extends to leisure drones and security applications, it beckons us to ponder the potential strides in the realm of military UAS, possibly even including fully-fledged RPAS J20 5th Generation aircraft and their diminutive wingman counterparts.
Over the past years, voices such as mine, as well as those of Will Roper and Palmer Luckey and Christian Brose from Anduril Industries, have offered a resounding wake-up call to policymakers. Our vision encompasses brilliant innovators and exceptional teams, along with the integration of civilian technological expertise capable of synergising defence requirements, thereby accelerating our strategic evolution a the required pace to give our adversaries pause and contemplation. Today as it stands we are behind, significantly.
Lockheed Martin QinetiQ Thales BAE Systems Bobby Sakaki James Earl Ben Wallace 10 Downing Street US Congress House of Commons UK House of Lords Government of Canada Government of Western Australia Royal Australian Navy Australian Defence Force NATO - Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) Babcock International Group Bryan S. General David H. Petraeus, US Army (Ret.) KKR Lux Capital SoftBank Investment Advisers SoftBank Group Corp. Adani Defence and Aerospace
A little-known company in California’s high desert will deliver a new prototype aircraft to help the US military train its pilots against advanced stealth fighters.
Tehachapi-based Sierra Technical Services (STS) was awarded a $77.1 million Pentagon contract on 4 August to deliver a prototype uncrewed aerial target aircraft capable of replicating the flight characteristics of the most-advanced enemy fighter jets.
“Key amongst these characteristics”, according to the Pentagon, “is size, signature and electronic attack payloads.”
Those attributes “significantly impact acquisition, tracking and guidance of anti-air systems”, the Pentagon contract announcement with STS notes, saying the fifth-generation traits must be “adequately represented” in a target platform to ensure proper testing.
STS has previously described its experimental 5th Generation Aerial Target (5GAT) as a “high-performance, unmanned, fighter-size aircraft” meant to be “threat representative”, including low observability.
This news will see a remarkable surge in the progress of enterprises like Red 6Inzpire Limited, Kratos Defense and Security Solutions. However, there remains a salient concern – the divergent mindset of decision-makers at the funding helm. The query arises: if Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) prove adept at outmaneuvering fifth-generation fighters, what rationale supports the continued use of human-manned aircraft?
Numerous factors advocate the retention of piloted military aircraft. It appears that someone within the Pentagon grapples with the undeniable trajectory. Could it be a hesitance to openly acknowledge the insight echoed by Elon Musk of SpaceX in his recent conversation with a high-ranking USAF officer?
The actuality is that the pace of change is sluggish, hindered by the entanglement of defence agencies restrained in civilian political dynamics. How much longer shall leaders of the free world traverse this uncertainty?
Just recently, China displayed its dominance in the realm of UAS quadcopters, spanning delivery and security applications. A new product launch from them this week threatens to overshadow several US drone companies. Personal inclinations aside, the reality stands unwavering – Chinese DJI products exhibit superior advancement, intuitive operation, and overall performance in the compact UAS sector. If this prowess extends to leisure drones and security applications, it beckons us to ponder the potential strides in the realm of military UAS, possibly even including fully-fledged RPAS J20 5th Generation aircraft and their diminutive wingman counterparts.
Over the past years, voices such as mine, as well as those of Will Roper and Palmer Luckey and Christian Brose from Anduril Industries, have offered a resounding wake-up call to policymakers. Our vision encompasses brilliant innovators and exceptional teams, along with the integration of civilian technological expertise capable of synergising defence requirements, thereby accelerating our strategic evolution a the required pace to give our adversaries pause and contemplation. Today as it stands we are behind, significantly.
Lockheed MartinQinetiQThalesBAE SystemsBobby SakakiJames EarlBen Wallace10 Downing StreetUS CongressHouse of CommonsUK House of LordsGovernment of CanadaGovernment of Western AustraliaRoyal Australian NavyAustralian Defence ForceNATO - Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA)Babcock International GroupBryan S.General David H. Petraeus, US Army (Ret.)KKRLux CapitalSoftBank Investment AdvisersSoftBank Group Corp.Adani Defence and Aerospace
A little-known company in California’s high desert will deliver a new prototype aircraft to help the US military train its pilots against advanced stealth fighters.
Tehachapi-based Sierra Technical Services (STS) was awarded a $77.1 million Pentagon contract on 4 August to deliver a prototype uncrewed aerial target aircraft capable of replicating the flight characteristics of the most-advanced enemy fighter jets.
“Key amongst these characteristics”, according to the Pentagon, “is size, signature and electronic attack payloads.”
Those attributes “significantly impact acquisition, tracking and guidance of anti-air systems”, the Pentagon contract announcement with STS notes, saying the fifth-generation traits must be “adequately represented” in a target platform to ensure proper testing.
STS has previously described its experimental 5th Generation Aerial Target (5GAT) as a “high-performance, unmanned, fighter-size aircraft” meant to be “threat representative”, including low observability.
Supermaneuverability of Advanced Fighter Jets :
- Traditional aircraft maneuvering is accomplished by altering the flow of air passing over the control surfaces of the aircraft—the ailerons, elevators, flaps, air brakes and rudder. Some of these control surfaces can be combined such as in the "ruddervators" of a V-tail configuration but the basic properties are unaffected. When a control surface is moved to present an angle to the oncoming airflow, it alters the airflow around the surface, changing its pressure distribution, and thus applying a pitching, rolling, or yawing moment to the aircraft.
- In a supermaneuverable aircraft like the Sukhoi SU -35 depicted in the video, the pilot can maintain a high degree of maneuverability below corner velocity, and at least limited altitude control without altitude loss below stall speed. Such an aircraft is capable of maneuvers that are impossible with a purely aerodynamic design. More recently, increased use of jet-powered, instrumented unmanned vehicles has increased the potential flyable angle of attack beyond 90 degrees and well into the post-stall safe flight domains, and has also replaced some of the traditional uses of wind tunnels.
- The angle of control surface deflection and resulting directional force on the aircraft are controlled both by the pilot and the aircraft's inbuilt control systems to maintain the desired attitude, such as pitch, roll and heading, and also to perform aerobatic maneuvers that rapidly change the aircraft's attitude. For traditional maneuvering control to be maintained, the aircraft must maintain sufficient forward velocity and a sufficiently low angle of attack to provide airflow over the wings (maintaining lift) and also over its control surfaces.
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