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September 20, 2024

 

The U.S. Air Force says the once-secretive Off-Board Sensing Station (OBSS) drone program has been fully folded into the service’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) effort. General Atomics has already disclosed that its current CCA design is derived from the XQ-67 drone it developed for OBSS. The program focused on a 'common chassis' concept, where a modular package that includes landing gear and critical flight and mission systems, could be installed on disparate combat drone airframes. You can read more about this here.   Make sure to check out highlights of all our coverage from the last week below. We are also continuing our rolling coverage of the conflict in Ukraine as it develops.    -- Kyle Gunn The War Zone

Must Read Articles

 

How EA-18G Growler’s Next Generation Jammer Actually Works And The Future Of Offensive Electronic Warfare   Raytheon's Chuck Angus talks Next Generation Jammer, the state of play in offensive electronic warfare and how it might look in the future.

 

How Israel Turned Hezbollah’s Pagers Into Exploding Trojan Horses   It's becoming clear that Israel executed a highly complex, years-long espionage operation unlike any we have seen before to weaponize Hezbollah's communications against them.

 

B-21 Ground Test Airframes Join Flying Pre-Production Raider   The B-21 Raider test force is growing as trials accelerate with an operational date by the end of the decade still the goal.

 

AC-130J Ghostrider Gunships Will Keep Their 105mm Howitzers, For Now   With a pivot to the Pacific and needing to keep the AC-130 relevant, its armament may change, but its Howitzer will stay put for the time being.

 

Work Toward KC-135 Tankers That Fly Themselves, Uncrewed Cargo Aircraft Pressing Ahead   Autonomous tankers and cargo aircraft could be key in a high-end fight with China, which is working on its own drone airlifters.

 

From the Archive

 

These Bizarre Infrared Pods Put Missile Seekers And Countermeasures To The Test   Infrared data collected by the pods is used for developing new missiles, sensors, aircraft, and countermeasures, and for the evaluation of enemy ones.         Hot Shots

 

U.S. Air Force Capt. Tadhg Collins, 36th Airlift Squadron pilot, pilots a C-130J Super Hercules during exercise Valiant Shield 24 at Misawa Air Base, Japan, June 15, 2024.

 

Marines with 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Special Operations Capable (SOC) conduct rigid-hull inflatable boat operations in the Mediterranean Sea, Aug. 22, 2024.

 

U.S. Army artillerymen with 3rd Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 25th Division Artillery, 25th Infantry Division, prepare for the helicopter to sling load a M119 A3 105mm howitzer during Super Garuda Shield 2024 at Puslatpur 5, Indonesia