Advanced Arresting Gear underway.General Atomics has received a $95.8 million contract for system development and demonstration of a shipboard-representative Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG AAG Association of American Geographers (Washington, DC) AAG Assistant Attorney General AAG Asociación Argentina de Golf AAG Anti-Aircraft Gun AAG Assistant Adjutant General AAG Australian Association of Gerontology ). The system will be installed at Naval Air Systems Command The Naval Air Systems Command, or NAVAIR, is the part of the United States Navy which provides materiel support for naval aircraft and airborne weapon systems, such as guided missiles. NAVAIR was established in 1966 as the successor to the Navy's Bureau of Naval Weapons (BuWeps). facilities in Lakehurst, N.J., beginning in 2006, and testing with unmanned test vehicles is expected to begin in 2007. Land-based aircraft testing is slated for 2009, and initial shipboard ship·board n. 1. The condition of being aboard a ship: on shipboard. 2. Archaic The side of a ship. adj. operations expected by 2014. The AAG will be retrofitted into existing Nimitz-class aircraft carriers and installed in follow-on types as they are built. Designed to meet the needs of Navy air wings through 2045, the AAG will be able to recover heavier and faster aircraft as well as unmanned aerial vehicles
EDITED BY WENDY LELAND |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion