Senate defense authorizers have laid down the proverbial gauntlet to the Army over the Joint Cargo Aircraft—we reported earlier that they want to move all 2008 funding into the Air Force line. In reading the Senate Armed Services Committee report on its markup of the 2008 defense bill, we find that lawmakers already have asked the Army to substantiate its claims that the Air Force can’t or won’t provide the intratheater the Army needs. To quote: “When invited to provide concrete examples that would give substance to the assertions, the Army was not forthcoming.” Further the report states: “If there were a pattern of the joint forces air component commander (JFACC) providing support that did not match the priorities of the joint forces land component commander (JFLCC), that would certainly argue for intervention of the joint forces component commander to correct the situation. It would not be a persuasive argument that the JFLCC should have his own air force.”
Details Murky as ARRW Falls Short in Second Test
March 24, 2023
The second all-up flight of the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon on March 13 fell short of a fully successful test, but the Air Force isn’t saying what went wrong with the Lockheed Martin-built hypersonic missile. The defense giant's Missiles and Fire Control division recently said the ARRW is "ready…