USAF fixed-wing aircraft have used BAE Systems’ Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System in combat for the first time. The service has fielded the laser-guided rockets—designed to minimize collateral damage—on A-10s and F-16s in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a BAE...
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France is seeking to almost double the amount of Hellfire missiles it is buying from the US government. The State Department has approved the possible $30 million sale of an additional 200 Hellfire Missiles, Hellfire Missile conversion kits, blast fragmentation...
The Air Force on April 5 awarded Boeing a $275 million contract to research ground-based space technology. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract calls for Boeing’s Directed Energy and Strategic Systems arm to advance capabilities that would maintain technological superiority in space from...
Command and control of Space-Based Infrared Systems and Defense Support Program satellites and payloads have been transferred from three legacy sites in Colorado to the new Block 10 ground system Mission Control Station at Buckley AFB, Colo., according to a...
Operation Desert Storm began on Jan. 17, 1991, kicking off 25 years of continuous combat operations for the United States Air Force. Air Force Magazine is commemorating the 25th anniversary of the momentous air campaign with 25 pictures from Desert Storm.
Lockheed Martin was awarded a $76 million contract to build Paveway II Plus laser-guided bomb kits, which will include guidance and tail assemblies for GBU-10 and GBU-12 bombs. Deliveries are slated to begin in the second quarter of 2016, according...
An upgraded AGM-88 High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile successfully foiled a decoy emitter and destroyed its intended radar target in a recent live-shot test at the Utah Test and Training Range, Raytheon announced. The HARM control section modification upgrade “improves the probability...
Members of the 427th Reconnaissance Squadron and 306th Intelligence Squadron arrive at Beale AFB, Calif., from Air Combat Command’s final MC-12W Liberty combat deployment, Oct. 13, 2015. Staff photo by Arie Church. Arie Church Oct. 19, 2015: Beale AFB, Calif.—MC-12W...
Air Force Space Command boss Gen. John Hyten declared initial operational capability for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency joint communication system on July 28, the service announced. AEHF satellites—the first of which launched in August 2010—provide 10 times more capability...