Tag: Infrared Search and Track
The contract provides for engineering, manufacturing, and development, production, integration, testing and deployment of F-15 Legion Pod IRST Pods Boeing has been awarded a $208 million contract to supply F-15 Legion Pod infrared search-and-track (IRST) pods. This sole-source acquisition is expected to be completed by Nov. 30, 2020. The Pentagon announced under Release No: CR-164-18 that the contract provides for engineering, manufacturing,...
The IRST upgrade is just one of the several improvements the U.S. Navy has planned for its F/A-18E/F fleet Boeing has been given a $152 million contract “to design, development, integrate and test the Infrared Search and Track System (IRST) Block II, Phase II engineering change as a replacement to the IRST Block I system” for the Super Hornet. The Pentagon...
Legion Pod is mounted on the centreline of the F-15 – mirroring what the Super Hornet Block III is doing with the IRST21 long-wave infrared sensor A senior executive from Boeing told Jane’s on Mar. 22, 2018, that Lockheed Martin will be awarded a full development and production contract to integrate the Legion Pod infrared search-and-track (IRST) sensor on the...
“The IRST sensor is a key capability Super Hornet brings to the carrier air wing that nobody else has. It is a counter-air, counter-stealth targeting capability,” Dan Gillian, Boeing’s F/A-18 and EA-18G program manager As we have recently reported Lockheed Martin has secured two contracts from Boeing to upgrade its IRST21 sensor system for use on the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18E/F...
Lockheed Martin will deliver its first Legion Pod for the program in 2018, with additional deliveries planned for 2019 Boeing has selected Lockheed Martin’s Legion Pod as the Infrared Search and Track (IRST) system for the U.S. Air Force’s F-15C fleet. An engineering, manufacturing, development and production contract for Legion Pod will be awarded by Boeing in 2018. Lockheed Martin will produce...
