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U-2 Dragon Lady

Unmasking Northrop Grumman’s XRQ-72A U-2 Dragon Lady

Unmasking Northrop Grumman’s XRQ-72A

The U.S. Intelligence Community led the development of this very quiet and high-efficiency unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.USAF via FOIA/IARPANearly a decade ago, the U.S. Intelligence Community began work on an experimental ultra-quiet, high-efficiency reconnaissance drone with an advanced hybrid-electric propulsion system. Very limited details about this secretive project, known as Great…
bubmag
April 1, 2020
Why are U-2 jet pilots wearing Garmin satellite navigation smartwatches? U-2 Dragon Lady

Why are U-2 jet pilots wearing Garmin satellite navigation smartwatches?

U-2, not U as well — They're useful flight- and pilot-monitoring tools, says the Air Force. Eric Tegler - Mar 13, 2020 5:15 pm UTC The current model U-2S aircraft features an all-glass digital cockpit, improved sensors, and propulsion systems. But its pilots still wear backup GPS/GLONASS-enabled watches, just in…
bubmag
March 13, 2020
American spy plane pilots use China’s satellite navigation system Beidou as backup to GPS, US general says U-2 Dragon Lady

American spy plane pilots use China’s satellite navigation system Beidou as backup to GPS, US general says

U-2 Dragon Lady in beautiful lightPilots of U-2 ‘Dragon Lady’ reconnaissance aircraft have a receiver chip in their watches that allows them to access the Chinese, Russian and European positioning systems, US Air Combat Command Chief James Holmes says Beidou went into commercial operation in 2018 and a third-generation service…
bubmag
March 8, 2020
US Spy Plane Pilots Using Russian, Chinese Navigation Satellites During Missions U-2 Dragon Lady

US Spy Plane Pilots Using Russian, Chinese Navigation Satellites During Missions

A US Air Force general has revealed that pilots of the service’s U-2 spy planes carry navigational watches capable of finding their way by using Chinese and Russian satellite networks if access to the US GPS network is interrupted.When the Air Force’s U-2 “Dragon Lady” spy plane pilots fly on…
bubmag
March 6, 2020
U.S. Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Collins Aerospace Complete U-2 SYERS-2C Upgrades, Enhancing the Dragon Lady’s Imaging Capability U-2 Dragon Lady

U.S. Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Collins Aerospace Complete U-2 SYERS-2C Upgrades, Enhancing the Dragon Lady’s Imaging Capability

PALMDALE, Calif., Feb. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Air Force, Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies (NYSE: UTX), and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® (NYSE: LMT) recently completed flight testing and deployment of the latest variant of th…
bubmag
February 18, 2020