The Air Force’s munitions roadmap is meant to take a comprehensive view of service weapons needs, focused on the next five years but taking a longer view, as well. Modularity may be a hallmark of the future weapons inventory, the service’s munitions PEO said.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall
WORLD: Air Power: F-35 flies with Tech Refresh 3; B-21 family of systems; RC-26 aircraft to the Boneyard.
Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. David W. Allvin: “Within our Air Force, we were experimenting with ways that we could fuse data, doing these experiments that showed that you could actually cross domains and be able to get a better solution ...
With the B-21 rollout, the Air Force begins recapitalizing the bomber force.
Passive defenses—including hardened aircraft shelters, asset dispersal, prepositioned munitions and the ability to rapidly repair runways—are the most cost-effective air base defense investments, according to a new RAND Corporation report. However, the Air Force should invest in a multifaceted combination of active and passive defenses ...
China thoroughly restructured its military to defeat the U.S., and that's why the Air Force is making deterring and beating China its top priority, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said, even before the National Defense Strategy named China as America's "pacing military threat."
The growing reach of China's long-range missiles means the Air Force may have to give up on traditional cargo and tanker aircraft and move toward purpose-built stealth designs for these missions, Secretary Frank Kendall said on a Council of Foreign Relations webinar. He also said ...
The U.S. Space Force officially turned 3 years old on Dec. 20, marked by a flurry of social media posts and celebrations for the nation’s youngest military service—and signaling yet another milestone in its maturation. In an image shared to Twitter, Chief of Space Operations Gen. ...
The many capabilities embodied by the Air Force’s next-generation B-21 Raider extend beyond conventional measures of range, payload, and radar-penetrating stealth—they also include “other things that it can be a part of that could help leverage the agility and the speed that we need to ...
With a little more than a week to go before the continuing resolution funding the federal government expires, lawmakers in Congress have still yet to reach an agreement on spending—and Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall is warning that dozens of programs and projects could be ...
News that the Air Force has begun to draw down its two F-15 squadrons at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, shows the cascading effect of decisions made years ago.
The growing frequency of intentional and unintentional incidents in space proves the case for resiliency.
