Russia’s Air Force will get two new Su-34 bombers in 2006, according to Gen. Vladimir Mikhailov, the chief of the Russian Air Force. One of the bombers is in an assembly hall and is nearly ready and the other likely will be ready by September, RIA Novosti news service reports.
In the face of Chinese war plans to disrupt U.S. command-and-control networks in the event of a conflict, the Air Force needs to focus less on its “connect everything” efforts and prepare its combat aviators to fight without a constant connection to higher-ups, according to a new report from AFA’s…