airpower

Senators Want to Speed Turkey’s F-35 Ouster

July 7, 2020 | By John A. Tirpak
A bipartisan group of four senators are demanding that the Pentagon explain why Turkey's expulsion from the F-35 program—to have been completed in March—now isn't expected until 2022. The senators said the sense of Congress on the matter is clear, and they want no further ...

Report: Standoff Weapons and Arsenal Plane No Match for Bombers

June 18, 2020 | By John A. Tirpak
Bombers are a better bet than standoff weapons for managing combat at long range, according to a new Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies report, released June 18. While standoff weapons are needed for key targets inside a well-fortified enemy's air defenses, only bombers can provide ...

Hinote: COVID-19 Accelerated Modernization ‘Day of Reckoning’

May 27, 2020
The Air Force can't afford to keep the force it has and modernize it, so it must choose new technology over force structure, Brig. Gen. S. Clinton Hinote, acting director of the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability, said May 27. Modernization was put off too ...

Inside Elmendorf’s Massive ‘Moose Walk’

May 14, 2020 | By Brian W. Everstine
When rows and rows of aircraft, 35 in total, lined up for the largest display of airpower in recent years at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, they had two audiences in mind: the Airmen on the ground that made it happen, and most importantly, those who ...