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RTX Corporation, formerly Raytheon Technologies Corporation, [3] [4] is an American multinational aerospace and defense conglomerate headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.It is one of the largest aerospace and defense manufacturers in the world by revenue and market capitalization, as well as one of the largest providers of intelligence services.
The factory in Mielec was renamed to Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze (PZL) - Zakład nr 1 (State Aviation Works, No.1 plant), and turned into a state-owned factory.At first, it undertook aircraft repair works, and produced mostly non-aviation items, such as bus bodies, scales, etc. [3] The first aircraft constructed in Mielec was a simple trainer PZL S-1, flown on 15 November 1945, of which only ...
The Lockheed Martin shooting occurred on July 8, 2003, at the Lockheed Martin plant in Meridian, Mississippi. The gunman, Douglas Williams, an assembly line worker at the plant, shot 14 of his co-workers with a shotgun, killing six of them, [n 1] before committing suicide. After the shooting, information surfaced depicting Williams' history of ...
The U.S. Navy's Ohio-class submarines, feature large, 44-foot-long (13 m), 7-foot-diameter (2.1 m), tubes to launch Trident missiles.Researchers at Skunk Works had the idea of creating a drone aircraft that can be stored in those missile tubes.
Skunk Works is an official pseudonym for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. It is responsible for a number of aircraft designs, highly classified research and development programs, and exotic aircraft platforms.
In 2014, Lockheed Martin proposed a cargo transport system called Jupiter to NASA under Phase 2 of a program to procure commercial cargo delivery services to the International Space Station after 2017. [2] Lockheed publicly announced the program in March 2015, and released an overview of the spacecraft and space cargo services they envision. [3]
Lunar Trailblazer is a planned small (class D) lunar orbiter, part of NASA's SIMPLEx program, that will detect and map water on the lunar surface to determine how its form, abundance, and location relate to geology. [3]
In June 2020 Taiclet was named as CEO of Lockheed Martin, succeeding Marillyn Hewson. [20] He was named chairman of the company in January 2021. On Feb. 16, China placed two companies, Lockheed Martin Corporation and Raytheon Missiles & Defense, on its unreliable entities list as they sold arms to Taiwan , banning them from engaging in China ...