Even as the Air Force prepares to award more contracts for Collaborative Combat Aircraft in the coming months and field them in the next few years, the service is still considering how its Airmen will interact with and operate the unmanned “wingman” drones, the head of ...
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William LaPlante said there’s been “significant improvement” in the program over the last decade, and program leaders can now “focus on the future of the F-35, instead of the past.”
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Unlike the race to the Moon between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1960s, this new space race involves dozens of countries, dynamic geopolitical tensions, and technical capabilities associated with sustained presence.
Air Force units are working with a new field kitchen called E-SPEK that can start cooking in just 15 minutes.
The Air Force’s hypersonics efforts are focused on an air-breathing cruise missile in the near term, a reuseable platform further out, and the possible end of its boost-glide ARRW program, Lt. Gen. Dale White told the House Armed Services Committee.
The Air Force is looking into a range of technologies, community partnerships, and third-party financing techniques to keep bases at home and downrange powered up in the event of bad weather or an attack by an adversary.
The XQ-67A, a new autonomous collaborative drone, flew for the first time Feb. 28, manufacturer General Atomics and the Air Force Research Laboratory announced. The aircraft, which flew at the General Atomics Gray Butte Flight Operations Facility near Palmdale, Calif., is part of AFRL’s Off-Board Sensing ...