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By Garrett Reim2021-06-03T01:09:00+01:00
Red 6, an augmented reality fighter pilot training startup, has raised a $30 million round of financing.
The company received $25 million from Snowpoint Ventures, an existing investor, with the remainder of the funds coming from other existing investors as well as new investors, it says on 1 June.
Source: Red 6
Red 6 aims to digitize combat pilot training
The startup is developing augmented reality flight training and dogfighting software for use in a purpose-built helmet-mounted headset. The helmet and augmented reality software is designed to allow pilots, flying in real training or combat aircraft, to virtually dogfight against synthetic enemy aircraft.
US DoD’s air-to-air exercise Checkered Flag concludes at Tyndall AFB 01 Jun 2021 (Last Updated June 1st, 2021 11:17)
Checkered Flag aerial exercise is designed to allow fourth and fifth-generation aircraft platforms to train together.
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An F-15E Strike Eagle assigned to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., receives fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over the Gulf of Mexico during Checkered Flag 21-2. Credit: USAF / Staff Sgt Stefan Alvarez.
The US Department of Defense’s air-to-air exercise ‘Checkered Flag’ has concluded at Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB) in Florida, US.
The two-week-long exercise includes the integration of fourth and fifth-generation air assets and offers an opportunity for aviators and maintainers to improve their mobility, deployment, and employment capabilities.
Training systems provider CAE announced on May 27 that CAE USA has been awarded a contract to deliver an initial prototype virtual reality/mixed reality aircrew trainer for the USAF’s new combat search and rescue helicopter, the HH-60W “Jolly Green II”
It’s official name is HH-60W, but we’ll most likely get to know it as the Jolly Green II. It is the future combat rescue variation of the mighty and well-known Black Hawk, currently being developed and tested by Sikorsky and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) for deployment in the coming years. This week, the program just got a major push forward.