Re: While eating Chinese food in Mojave.....


Message posted by Richard on October 25, 2000 at 14:13:19 EST:

Hi guys

BAe Systems 'Marconi Flight Systems' are the contractors.
They have their own facilities in the US to do this work.
They were thinking of buying the Site-9 at Plant 42 (the old Rockwell site) but are staying at Mojave.

The programme is updating the KC-135R to the KC-135S Standard.
Aswell as this, you might of seen a modified F.4 Phantom on site. With a much modified nose.
This is BAe Systems OWN Phantom and is flown from Mojave to do trials on the seeker head of the British Brimstone Anti-Armour Missile (similar to Hellfire but Fixed wing launched aswell as WAH-64D Apache launched.
The Brimstone, aswell as the British Storm Shadow Cruise missile are being tested at China Lake NAWC because of the vast ranges in operational use there. (The RAF send over Jaguars, Harriers and Tornado GR4s for long months at a time deployments for live fire testing)

Flight Systems are also involved in other programmes with the USAF and are the major avionics systems contractors for alot of the programmes that go on out there and around the continent, aswell as their home of the U.K.

If you go to Plant 42, you'll a see another contingent of BAe workers...working on the JSF and other programmes with Northrop, Boeing and Lockheed , some being highly classified indeed.

Rich


In Reply to: Re: While eating Chinese food in Mojave..... posted by Magoo on October 25, 2000 at 05:52:39 EST:

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