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Stew Magnuson • National Defense Magazine

The B-21 Raider's Critical Numbers Game

The Air Force's B-21 Raider is designed to prevail against robust air defenses, deliver precision weapons on targets deep in enemy territory and...

01/10/23Read it on National Defense Magazine
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Tabitha Reeves • National Defense Magazine

Air Force Lessons Learned From Operation Epic Fury

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Jangoulun Singsit • Airforce Technology

AFRL, 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....

9h agoRead it on Airforce Technology
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Patty Nieberg • Task & Purpose

Drones 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....

1d agoRead it on Task & Purpose
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Michael Peck • Defense News

U.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...

2d agoRead it on Defense News
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Kris Osborn • Warrior Maven

LGM-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...

2d agoRead it on Warrior Maven
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Robbin Laird • DEFENSE.info

The 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...

3d agoRead it on DEFENSE.info
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Matthew Cox • Air & Space Forces Magazine

Air 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 Magazine
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Howard Altman • The WarZone

Confessions 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 WarZone
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Laura Heckmann • National Defense Magazine

Air 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 Magazine
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Stefano D'Urso • The Aviationist

GA-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