Rockwell Collins has signed a maintenance agreement with L-3 Communications to provide avionics service and support for the Air Force’s MC-12 Liberty intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance aircraft. “This maintenance contract is based on best practices that we’ve developed for commercial airlines and business jet operators for many years,” said Scott Gunnufson, Rockwell’s vice president and general manager of Service Solutions, in the company’s release. This new contract calls for Rockwell to provide maintenance on all 37 MC-12Ws. L-3 is the MC-12 prime contractor. Just last week, the Air Force announced that Beale AFB, Calif., will be the stateside home of the MC-12s, which have been providing invaluable direct overhead ISR support to ground forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.
B-21 Temporary Shelters Could Also Shelter B-2s
March 5, 2021
The Air Force's experimental runway shelter for the new B-21 bomber is large enough to cover it or the B-2, and therefore reveals no information about the dimensions of the new aircraft. Two such shelters will be evaluated, but the maker of the second version hasn't been chosen yet.