Northrop Grumman

Figure 1-29 Metal A-V Speedbrake (Courtesy of Northrop Grumman)...

The B-2 stealth bomber in Figure 1-38 is made by Northrop Grumman. Virtually all external parts are made of various composite materials because of their radar-absorption characteristics and/or their capability to be formed to shapes that naturally lower the radar cross section of the plane. However, the details are not publicly available, nor are they for the Lockheed Martin F-117A stealth fighter. 

Anthony J. Favale Director Advanced Energy System Northrop Grumman Corporation... 

There are few examples of mass produced MMW radars used for either commercial or military applications. An exception is the US Army s Longbow Apache attack helicopter that is equipped with the Northrop Grumman MMW Longbow radar. The Longbow fire control radar incorporates an integrated radar frequency interferometer for passive location... 

The Stealth Bomber, more accurately known as the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber, is cited as the largest composite structure produced with over 30%i of the weight being carbon-graphite-epoxy composites. The Stealth Bomber was originally slated to hunt Russian mobile missiles that were built in the 1980s. It was deployed in 1993 and has a... 

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation Electronic Sensors and Systems PO Box 17319/MS A-255 Baltimore, MD, 21203 Ph 410.993.6848 321.726.7526 (Jim Stratford) www.es.northropgrumman.com Automatic Mine Detection System, AN/AQS-14 Post Mission Analysis System and Airborne Laser Mine Detection System (ALMDS). 

WILLIAM H. FORSTER, chair, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland THOMAS L. MCNAUGHER, vice chair, RAND Corporation, Washington, D.C. (until 12/31/99) ELIOT A. COHEN, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C. 

WILLIAM H. FORSTER, Chair, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland... 

Has extensive technical and marketing plastic industry business experience from laboratory, testing, through production to marketing, having worked for Northrop Grumman, Owens-Illinois, DuPont/... 

Interestingly, a Google search reveals that both AMES II and Micro-AMES also refer to Northrop Grumman s Electronic Warfare Threat Environment Simulator for military use. See www.dsd.es.northrop-grumman.com/DSD-Brochures/amherst/Micro AMES.pdf. 

This system has been used in development on the lower hull and crew capsule of the US Army s Composite Armored Vehicle and the Northrop-Grumman Advanced Technology Transit Bus. Research is continuing at the US Army Research Laboratory and the University of Delaware Centre for Composite Materials. 

FIGURE 23. Temrok [Blackglas-Nextel 312 (BN)] Ceramic Conposite Brake Discs and Pads from Northrop Grumman... 

Product Literature on Temrok Ceramic Matrix Composites from Northrop Grumman Advanced Systems and Technology, Pico Rivera, CA, 1997. 

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