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The E-7 was developed by Boeing for the export market. It’s hosted on a 737-700 airframe, and rather than a rotating radome—the iconic, flying-saucer-like feature of the E-3—the Wedgetail uses a large blade-like structure on its back, housing an active electronically scanned array radar.
A framework for understanding and developing autonomy in unmanned aircraft. The Air Force is rapidly evolving new concepts for teaming manned fighters and bombers with autonomous unmanned aircraft to perform strikes, counter-air, electronic warfare, and other missions.
Rare is the USAF base that bears the name of a naval officer. There have been only three.
“I’m very concerned about our readiness levels, our availability of the current fleet. Some fleets like our battle management fleet, AWACS as well, are not anywhere near where they need to be,” Secretary Frank Kendall said.; USAF Aircraft Mishaps Down; Integrated Warfighting Network.
Lauren Barrett Knausberger, USAF’s chief information officer said, "There’s just not enough money to fix it all at once."
Foreign advances and U.S. neglect have realigned the electromagnetic battlefield. Here’s how USAF is fighting back.
The Air Force is revising rules for deployments, physical fitness tests, promotions, and more in 2022. Here's a rundown of what's ahead.
The Pentagon released previously withheld statistics Dec. 17 indicating changing demand for air power in Afghanistan as the U.S. prepared to withdraw from that country last spring.
The Air Force is about to roll out another aspect of its new Force Generation model (AFFORGEN): Air Base Squadrons are designed to provide forward-deployed units the necessary support to conduct operations from widely dispersed and likely austere locations with a minimal footprint of people ...
The new technology, developed by Dynepic and dubbed the Member Operations Training Analytics and Reports (MOTAR) platform, will soon be distributed to AETC wings.
Red air operations and training are priorities for USAF in the coming decade.