Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has selected Smiths Aerospace's integrated standby instrument system (ISIS) for the KT-1 turboprop trainer. Smiths supplies avionics for the T-50 supersonic jet trainer. The ISIS can compute and display attitude, altitude, airspeed, heading, Mach and instrument landing guidance within a single 3ATI instrument.
Source: Flight International
Secretary of the US Air Force Frank Kendall flew in the lead seat of the service’s X-62A Variable In-flight Simulation Test Aircraft (VISTA), a specially modified Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter being used to test and develop artificial intelligence and autonomy capabilities.
The government of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is lauding a C$40 billion plan to boost military spending, particularly in the Arctic region, while downplaying the country’s failure to achieve the NATO standard of committing the equivalent of 2% of gross domestic product toward defence expenditures.
Video footage has been released showing pilot training activities being provided to Ukrainian air force personnel using Lockheed Martin F-16s, just months before Kyiv is expected to begin operating the western fighter.
