Getting a piece of critical equipment out of an aircraft is only half the battle. Getting it to land exactly where troops need it, without a pilot flying dangerously low or slow over hostile territory, is the harder problem, and a Virginia-based company just demonstrated a system built to solve both at once. Onyx Industries […]

A shoulder-fired missile streaking toward a military cargo plane has mere seconds to find its target, and the U.S. Air Force has paid $60.4 million to make sure the aircraft sees it coming even faster. Northrop Grumman won a $60,438,241 contract to develop an enhanced sensor called the Optical Detection and Identification Node, or ODIN, […]