AMC chief Gen. Duncan McNabb said it will take somewhere between $22 million and $25 million per aircraft to refurbish AMC’s grounded C-130E-model aircraft with everything those old Hercs need to be viable weapons systems. Avionics, engines, and center wing boxes all need work. But even then, AMC would have upgraded but 40-year-old aircraft. “At some point, this is not good for the nation,” McNabb said, when there are brand new C-130Js and Joint Cargo Aircraft the Air Force could more profitably spend the money on instead.
A new Navy missile could fill a long-range air-to-air need for the U.S. Air Force’s fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-generation fighters. The Navy’s portfolio acquisition executive for munitions posted information on the AIM-424 Long Range Air-to-Air Missile online on Aug. 22, the same day it unveiled the project at the service’s…