Sometimes when a stalemate lingers, one of the frustrated combatants demands closure with a head-to-head competition. And so it is when it comes to US high-altitude TSR, short for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. In hopes of ending the questions over the futures of the conventionally piloted U-2s and unmanned RQ-4 Global Hawks, Lockheed Mania earlier this year released a rendering of a proposed unmanned spy plane called the TR-X, which it has been working on at its Skunk Works unit in California since 2015. Here, Button looks at Lockheed Martin's bid to force change with a proposed aircraft called TR-X.


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    Title :

    Wanted: An ISR showdown


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2016



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    Local classification TIB:    770/7040
    BKL:    55.88 Luftverkehr, Raumfahrt / 55.88



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