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The New F-35 Stealth Fighter 'Variant'
The Pentagon has awarded Lockheed Martin a multimillion contract to develop a new F-35 stealth fighter jet variant.A New Variant of the F-35? What...
12/30/21Read it on 1945AFRL, ACC Fly XQ-67A Drone To Test Autonomous Teaming
The flight tested the XQ-67A’s integrated sensors, mission computers and power and thermal management systems in combat-like conditions....
1d agoRead it on Airforce TechnologyDrones Built To Look Like Birds Evaded Detection at Air Force Tech Exercise
The small unmanned aerial system (UAS) is designed to resemble a bird, while it collects intelligence or surveys an area at low altitudes....
2d agoRead it on Task & PurposeU.S. Air Force Asks Industry for New Cruise Missile for Ukraine
Potential contractors are asked to detail their capabilities to provide the Extended Range Attack Munition...
3d agoRead it on Defense NewsLGM-35 Sentinel ICBM on Track for 2030
Heavier, faster, more lethal, cyber hardened and more reliable are just a few of the attributes woven into the US Air Force’s new Sentinel ICBM, a...
3d agoRead it on Warrior MavenThe Requirement for Air Combat Mass and Depth in the Indo-Pacific
For three decades, “generation” has been a word we attach to aircraft: fourth, fifth, now sixth. The label implies that the next step forward is a...
4d agoRead it on DEFENSE.infoAir Force Should Buy 250 Blended-Wing Tankers, as 2027 Demo Looms
A new think tank analysis finds a hypothetical blended-wing body tanker could offer twice as much refueling performance as the KC-46A Pegasus...
1w agoRead it on Air & Space Forces MagazineConfessions Of An SR-71 Blackbird Pilot
What it was like to sit at the controls of the Skunk Works' legendary Blackbird while hurtling over hostile territory at Mach 3.3....
1w agoRead it on The WarZoneAir Force Exploring Creative Ways to Produce More Pilots
The Air Force has been battling a chronic pilot shortage for the better part of a decade, and its leaders have said it will take at least that long...
1w agoRead it on National Defense MagazineGA-ASI and Saab Test AEW Payload on MQ-9B
According to GA-ASI, the flight test demonstrated “simultaneous tracking of several airborne and maritime targets at long ranges”...
1w agoRead it on The Aviationist
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The World Cup Is Over. The Drone Threat Isn’t.
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Big Surface Combatants are so Hot Right Now
By CDR Salamander
USS Stout Loses Power During Port Visit Due to ‘Engineering Casualty’
By USNI News
Air Force Lessons Learned From Operation Epic Fury
By Tabitha Reeves, National Defense
Marines Need Nine More Amphibious Warships To Carry Out Its Missions
By TWZ
AFRL, ACC Fly XQ-67A Drone To Test Autonomous Teaming
By Airforce Technology
