Posted on 12/24/2010 10:12:43 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Training devices for the U.S. Air Force's C-17 aircrews will be delivered by Boeing to three service sites in 2012 and 2013.
Boeing said the first set of devices is an Integrated Training Center to be delivered to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, in the first quarter of 2012.
The ITC will consist of a weapon systems trainer, pilot and co-pilot station, loadmaster station and related courseware and support equipment.
A second weapon systems trainer will be installed at McChord Air Force Base, Wash., in the third quarter of 2012 and a third ITC will go to a new C-17 training site in early 2013.
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Weapons on a cargo jet? Do you have any idea of weapons they are refering to Please? Are they talking about defensive armarments. Chaff, ECM pods? What?
Like you, I was unaware that the C-17 had a weapons system. I suppose the C-5 does, too, then.
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