Strategy & Policy: Rethinking Next-Gen Air Dominance
Leaders seem to be hedging, with senior service leaders indicating concern over NGAD’s costs and raising questions about the future of U.S. air dominance.
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Daily Report: ‘Hunter-Killer’ Small Sats? | B-1 Crash Report | CV-22 Pulled from Japan Exercise
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Greece to Buy Up to 40 F-35s, Growing Fighter’s European Footprint
Greece is acquiring at least 20 F-35s in a deal valued at $3.5 billion but could double that number with options. It will continue upgrading some of its F-16s but sell some off, possibly to Ukraine, and offer its French Mirage 2000s and Rafales to ...
Daily Report: Chinese, Russian Bombers Intercepted Near Alaska | Another B-1 Resurrected | New NGB, TRANSCOM Commanders
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AMC Is Working on Analysis of Commercial Refueling. Can Retired KC-10s Help?
Air Mobility Command has explored the idea of commercial refueling to supplement its tankers and is working on more analysis—including potential use of retired and stored KC-10 Extenders—commander Gen. Mike Minihan told lawmakers July 23.
Daily Report: B-2 Tests Cheap Anti-Ship Weapon | AMC to Fall Short on Connectivity Goal | Super Squadron of F-16s
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Minihan: AMC Will Fall Short of ‘25 by ’25’ Goal to Better Mobility Aircraft Connectivity
Air Mobility Command will fall short of its goal of having 25 percent of the fleet equipped with connectivity upgrades by 2025, commander Gen. Mike Minihan told lawmakers.
F-35 Deliveries Resume After a Year on Hold
Lockheed Martin began delivering F-35s again on July 19, after a year of building the fighters and putting them directly into storage because their Tech Refresh 3 systems and software were not fully tested.
Daily Report: B-2 Gets Big Upgrade | Air Force Flight Academy Scholarship | SPACECOM Boss on Falcon 9
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B-2 Gets Big Upgrade with New Open Mission Systems Capability
The B-2 bomber fleet is now using an open mission systems architecture that will accelerate the speed with which it can be equipped with new weapons and cuts software update time from years to weeks.
Daily Report: ACC Considers New Dress Rules | AI for Mundane Tasks | F-16s to Poland, Bulgaria
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USAF Sending B-52, Fighters, and More to Major Air Shows in UK
The U.S. Air Force will be well represented at the world's biggest military airshow and one of its largest airshows of any kind, running back to back in the coming weeks.
Daily Report: JADC2 and NC3 | F135 Upgrade Passes Review | Biggest Pitch Black Ever
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New Engine Core Upgrade for F-35 Powerplant Passes Preliminary Design Review
Pratt & Whitney and the F-35 Joint Program Office have completed the preliminary design review of the Engine Core Upgrade of the fighter’s F135 engine, the company said this week, adding that the ECU is “on schedule and exceeding expectations.” Pratt is a subsidiary of ...
Daily Report: F-35 Deliveries to Resume | NATO Sounds Alarm on China | C-21 Stays Busy
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F-35 Deliveries Can Resume Immediately With ‘Truncated’ TR-3 Software
More than 90 brand-new F-35s, many in storage since last fall, can be delivered now that a “truncated” version of the Tech Refresh 3 software has been approved for use.
Maj. Gen. Joe Engle, X-15 Pilot and Shuttle Astronaut, Dies at 91
Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Joe Henry Engle, test pilot, Apollo-era astronaut, and the only American to fly two different winged vehicles into space, died July 10 at the age of 91. Engle flew more than 185 different aircraft—38 of them fighter/attack types—and amassed more ...
ACC Boss: CCA Drones Will Mostly Be Kept in ‘Flyable Storage’ Outside of Missions
With the Air Force's fighter plans in flux—the Next-Generation Air Dominance program’s future in doubt and the F-22 potentially being extended—Collaborative Combat Aircraft autonomous drones will be all the more important for restoring capacity to the fleet, the head of Air Combat Command said July ...
Daily Report: ACC Boss: Keep Older F-22s | F-16 Deliveries to Ukraine Start | Russian GPS Jamming
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