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First RAF personnel to start Rivet Joint conversion in January

09:30 20 December 2010

Royal Air Force personnel will start to transition to the RC-135 Rivet Joint electronic intelligence aircraft in...

Saying goodbye to the 'Mighty Hunter'

23:05 29 March 2010

The UK's Nimrod MR2 fleet will bow out of service on 31 March. We look back at the type's operational history, and fly...

UK approves Rivet Joint purchase

16:35 22 March 2010

The UK has agreed to buy three Boeing RC-135 Rivet Joint electronic intelligence aircraft and related ground equipment...

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First RAF personnel to start Rivet Joint conversion in January

News | 20 Dec 2010 09:30 | Craig Hoyle

Royal Air Force personnel will start to transition to the RC-135 Rivet Joint electronic intelligence aircraft in January ...http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/First-RAF-personnel-to-start-Rivet-Joint-conversion-in-January-351083/

Saying goodbye to the 'Mighty Hunter'

News | 29 Mar 2010 23:05 | Craig Hoyle

The UK's Nimrod MR2 fleet will bow out of service on 31 March. We look back at the type's operational history, and fly on one of the type's final training sorties ...http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Saying-goodbye-to-the-Mighty-Hunter-339943/

UK approves Rivet Joint purchase

News | 22 Mar 2010 16:35 | Craig Hoyle

The UK has agreed to buy three Boeing RC-135 Rivet Joint electronic intelligence aircraft and related ground equipment from the USA ...http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/UK-approves-Rivet-Joint-purchase-339763/

UK set to seal Nimrod R1 replacement deal

News | 13 Jan 2010 17:00 | Craig Hoyle

The UK Ministry of Defence will sign a contract within the next few weeks to replace its British Aerospace Nimrod R1 electronic intelligence aircraft ...http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/UK-set-to-seal-Nimrod-R1-replacement-deal-337098/

Pentagon hopes to replace lost aircraft

News | 07 Mar 2006 00:00

<P>The heavy toll on equipment from operations in Afghanistan and Iraq is evident in the US Department of Defense’s $67.9 billion fiscal year 2006 supplemental funding request to Congress. Systems to interdict improvised explosive devices (IED) are also high on the Pentagon’s shopping list. <TABLE style="WIDTH: 146px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; HEIGHT: 61px" borderColor=#000000 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width=146 align=right bgColor=#ffffff border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <P align=right><SUP><IMG alt="Apaches US defence funding W445" src="../assets/getAsset.aspx?ItemID=11841"><BR>© USAF</SUP></P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <P align=left><SUP>Sixteen Apaches have been lost in Afghanistan and Iraq</SUP></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><BR>The request seeks to replace 16 US Army Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters lost in Afghanistan and Iraq, and buy three Lockheed Martin C-130J transports to replace three C-130Hs taken from the US Air Force inventory and converted to special-opehttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Pentagon-hopes-to-replace-lost-aircraft-205326/

Joining the dots

News | 06 Sep 2004 23:00

<p>US military authorities are struggling with technological, political and financial obstacles as they try to create a modern fighting force </p> <p>Network-centric warfare in 2020, as envisaged by the US Air Force, is an "air net" with three main layers. The core layer is a constellation of flying surveillance and command and control (C2) platforms. Fighters, bombers, unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAV), airlifters, tankers and individual weapons form a middle layer interconnected by internet-based datalinks. Finally, tactical aircraft, including some coalition machines, are added via the Link 16 protocol in the third layer.</p> <p>This vision is called ConstellationNet, the air force's component of a larger plan by the US Department of Defense to fully network the battlefield. Much of its success will hinge on new technologies, estimated to cost from $40-50 billion, with many being developed outside the service's control. </p> <p>At the heart of the C2 constellation - the innermohttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Joining-the-dots-187129/