The innovative engineers and technicians at Arnold Engineering and Development Center in Tennessee developed a High Speed Fan Facility to verify the viability of the Towed Airborne Plume Simulator to test early warning sensors on military aircraft. TAPS will be carried aloft, towed behind an aircraft, but first USAF wanted to test it on the ground. AEDC journalist Philip Lorenz III reports that the center used off-the-shelf components and cannibalized ducting to construct a temporary HSFF to test TAPS on the ground.
The U.S. and Sweden signed a bilateral Defense Cooperation Agreement on Dec. 5 that will strengthen military ties between them and likely lead to U.S. troops and prepositioned gear on Swedish soil. Swedish Defense minister Pal Jonson said the war in Ukraine prompted Sweden's joining NATO and he laid out…