The 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group marked an important milestone in continuing to prepare the warfighter for tomorrow’s threats as the first QF-16 target drone arrived for developmental testing at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida., November 19. Continue reading
Category Archives: Targets
BAE Systems Converted 300th F-4 Phantom into Target Drone for US Air Force
BAE Systems has successfully converted its 300th F-4 Phantom fighter jet into an unmanned flying drone for the U.S. Air Force. Continue reading
Kratos Wins $6.3M Contract to Supply Unmanned Aerial Target Systems to Korean Agency
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. has announced that its Composite Engineering, Inc. (CEI) subsidiary has received a $6.3 million single award baseline contract from the Korean Agency for Defense Development (ADD) for the supply of unmanned aerial targets and associated hardware. Continue reading
India’s Lakshya Aerial Target Succeeds Test Flight
India’s nationally developed, unmanned aerial target ‘Lakshya-1′ has been successfully test flown from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur. Continue reading
Kratos Gets $20M Target Systems Contract from Sweden
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that it’s newly acquired subsidiary, Composite Engineering, Inc. (CEI), has received an $11.9 million single award baseline contract from Swedish FMV for the supply of unmanned aerial targets and associated hardware to the Vidsel Test Range. Continue reading
Boeing To Deliver Six QF-16 Target Drones to US Air Force in 2012
Boeing is scheduled to deliver six QF-16 target drones to the US Air Force before the end of the year, a senior company official says.
Final Phantom Converted to Target Drone
The final F-4 Phantom destined for conversion to a QF-4 aerial target drone recently entered the 309th Aircraft Maintenance and Regeneration Group’s refurbishment line at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., according to the Desert Lightning News, the base newspaper. Continue reading
Boeing Completes 1st Flight of QF-16 Aerial Target for US Air Force
The Boeing Company and the U.S. Air Force completed the first manned flight of the QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target (FSAT) on May 4 at Cecil Field in Jacksonville. Continue reading