Maj. Gen. James Jones, the Air Force’s top planner, told reporters at the Pentagon Tuesday that the service will continue to rely heavily on the Navy’s EA-18G Growlers and EA-6B Prowlers for stand-in jamming, as well as the Miniature Air Launched Decoy Jammer and certain onboard capabilities of the F-35A. Jones also noted that USAF plans to take down half of its EC-130 Compass Call fleet—seven aircraft—because the platform is “not survivable” against modern anti-access, area denial systems. But beyond some pod updates, he wouldn’t discuss the electronic attack, electronic warfare roadmap, except to say that “there are things in the black world”—top secret—that will have a bearing on it. At AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, a Northrop Grumman “electronic billboard” showed a stealthy-looking unmanned flying wing vehicle with a Global Hawk-like uplink fairing, labeled as a “Penetrating Stand-In Airborne Electronic Attack” platform. The company had no literature to share about the concept.
Celebrating 100 Years of Liquid-Fueled Rockets
March 11, 2026
March 16, 2026, marks 100 years since Dr. Robert H. Goddard launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket. Over the past century, new and ever more capable liquid-fueled rockets have literally propelled humanity into space. Why liquid-fueled rockets?