Is no news, good? Maybe. Perhaps, though, we should wait until the other pea under the shell stops moving. The Senate, according to Levin, is in a wait-and-see mode, biding its time until the Pentagon finally releases the Air Force analysis of alternatives and makes its decision on how to go about replacing USAF’s elderly aerial refueling fleet.
Facing competition from fast-growing startups, Lockheed Martin is speeding up production of an “affordable, scalable” hypersonic glide body, dubbed the Next Generation Glide Body, the firm said in a June 24 release.