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Aerojet Rocketdyne Propulsion Critical to Successful SM-3 Block IB Flight Test Standard Missile-22 Intercept

Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (GY) company, announced today that its propulsion systems successfully contributed to an intercept of a ballistic missile target with the second generation Aegis BMD ...
SpaceRef

Announcing Phase Four’s Maxwell Block 3 Plasma Propulsion Thruster: Exceeding Hall Effect Thruster Performance

Phase Four, Inc. (“Phase Four”), the creator of the radio-frequency thruster for satellite propulsion, announced today its highly anticipated Maxwell Block 3 turn-key plasma propulsion thruster. The ...
GovCon Wire

Pratt & Whitney Awarded $517M in Navy Contract Modifications for F135, Propulsion System Block Four Flight Test Program

RTX’s (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary has received two contract modifications worth $517.1 million combined from the U.S. Navy to deliver spares for the production of the F135 propulsion system ...
Aviation Week

Block II Chinook Will Be UK’s Heavy-Lift Helo Backbone Into 2050s

The UK Royal Air Force is marking 40 years of Chinook operations this year. The purchase of the Block II model could extend the type’s UK career out to 2050 and beyond. Credit: Royal Air Force The UK ...
Aviation Week

Lockheed Rolls Out First Block 70 F-16 From South Carolina Plant

Lockheed Martin has rolled out the first F-16 Block 70 jet to emerge from a 3 1/2-year-old assembly line in Greenville, South Carolina. A brief marketing video also flashes a roundel on the side of ...