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Red Flag 2019: First Great Power Air War Test In Years
How are Air Force pilots training for a war with Russia or China?
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US Air Power: The Imperative For Modernization (Buy The F-35)
In 2006, a relatively obscure book caused a major stir among the U.S. Air Force leadership. Why Air Forces Fail, edited by Robin Higham and Stephen J. Harris, lays out the determinants of failure:...
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809 Panel Calls for Managing ‘Capabilities,’ Not Weapons
The Department of Defense can make smarter and faster acquisition decisions if it uses people more thoughtfully. Instead of involving top-level leaders at every decision point in the acquisition...
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Trump Threatens NDAA Veto If House Cuts Stand
The Trump Administration argues the HASC’s cuts to the defense policy bill would hamper missile detection and defense priorities.
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US, Allies Getting Larger Airborne Network With New JTRS Radios
The software defined radios will make F/A-18E/F and F-22 aircraft communications nodes in a coalition network.
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AMC Eyes Self-Defense For Cargo, Tanker Planes
“We have hardpoints on the C-17; We have hardpoints on the KC-46. It’s not a hard stretch to think that we could put one or two missiles on there for self defense,” says AMC head Gen. Jacqueline Van...
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All-Domain Demo Links U-2, F-35 & F-22
The demonstration, dubbed Project Hydra, was partially funded by the Air Force and the Missile Defense Agency, says Lockheed Martin’s Dan Markham.
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Fleet Decentralization Focus For AF Budget Beyond 2023
How the Air Force embodies its ‘agile combat employment’ concept depends in part on the future fleet composition — with the F-22’s fate a central question.
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ABMS Grows Up: Air Force Shifts Focus To Delivering Kit
A new pod-based comms system for the KC-46, enabling it to serve as a ‘translator’ for the incompatible radio systems of the F-22 and F-35, will be fielded in the last quarter of fiscal 2022.
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Inside The ‘Laboratory Of Premieres’ For French Air Power
Gen. Philippe Lavigne, the Chief of French Air and Space Force, walks Breaking Defense through a recent Pacific exercise.
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CAPE’s TacAir ‘Affordability’ Insights Out In Fall
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is “critical to being able to execute the emerging operational concepts” being honed by the Joint Staff for future conflict, Joseph Nogueira, acting CAPE director, says.
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As Tyndall tries to rebound, A-10 fight prompts F-35 maintainer shortfall,...
F-35 squads at Hill AFB, Utah, Eielson AFB, Alaska, Luke AFB, Ariz., and Eglin AFB, Fla. could all face risks due to a maintainer shortage at Tyndall.
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Navy, Air Force struggling to keep planes ready for take off
The F-22 and KC-130T fleets have the worst results of the eight fleets GAO assessed.
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If Congress blocks F-22 retirements, expect impact to Air Force drone...
“The concern I would have would be on our ability to deliver on a collaborative combat aircraft system to complement [Next Generation Air Dominance],” said Air Force acquisition executive Andrew...
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Congress protects F-22s from retirement, oks sending some A-10s to the boneyard
For the first time ever, Congress gave the green light for the Air Force to divest part of its A-10 Warthog fleet, but it’s still yet to be seen whether this is a one-time event.
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F-22 to be left out of Air Force’s ABMS data transfer prototype: GAO
The Air Force also needs to define which initial capabilities it plans to deliver under another ABMS effort this year, the Government Accountability Office says in a new report.
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Other Chinese balloons slipped through ‘domain awareness gap’ in US defenses:...
“It’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those [previous] threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck said.
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F-22 shoots down new ‘object’ over US airspace, days after Chinese balloon saga
Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, who avoided calling the object a “balloon” or “aircraft,” noted it was “not similar in size or shape to the [Chinese] high-altitude surveillance balloon”...
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Navy Super Hornet fleet aging faster, less available than predecessor fleet: CBO
The Super Hornets’ performance also had unfavorable comparisons to other Navy and Air Force fleets.
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Chinese balloons have been ‘transiting’ Middle East, top general says
The Pentagon has changed how it tracks items in American airspace, increasing the number of objects it sees.
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