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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Northrop Grumman Delivers First Unit of Its Newest Navigation System for Flight Testing On U.S. Navy F-5 Adversary Fleet Support Fighter

The first unit of Northrop Grumman Corporation's newest fiber optic gyro-inertial navigation system, the LN-260, has been delivered to the U.S. Navy for flight testing on its F-5 Tiger II Adversary Fleet Support Fighter.

Flight testing is scheduled to begin October 2007 and the upgraded F-5 fleet is scheduled to be operational in 2008.

"As part of an avionics cost-savings and reliability improvement kit for the F-5, our LN-260 fiber optic technology with a 24-channel Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver will enhance the performance and reliability of the F-5's avionics systems," said Mark Casady, vice president of Navigation and Positioning Systems at Northrop Grumman's Navigation Systems Division.

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