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Don't Add a Gap to NGAP
In preparing its budget for 2024, the United States Air Force faced a crucial decision: Continue funding the program to develop an entirely new...
01/28/26Read it on RealClearDefense
F-16s Build on Iran Combat Lessons to Prepare for China Threat
Iran war combat lessons are driving a faster pace of modernization for the U.S. Air Force’s F-16s.
The F-16s have been in the thick of the action during Operation Epic Fury, and will be again if strikes against Iran resume. Night take-offs, anti-drone missions, aerial refueling, and air dominance patrols are just a few of the missions prominently highlighted on X by U.S. Central Command. Not pictured: the specialized capability to kill any air defenses that go active with the radar-homing High-speed Anti-Radiation Missiles, or HARMs, an F-16 “Wild Weasel” specialty.
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....
3d 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....
4d 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...
5d 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...
5d 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...
6d 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 Magazine
2949 Marine Prisoners, Hostages, and Peacetime Governmental Detainees Since Our Corps' Founding
By Jon Couch • RealClearDefense
America Must Win the Biotech Race Against China
By Rob Maness • RealClearDefense
How Digital Twins Can Strengthen Naval Readiness Before a Crisis Begins
By Carl Napoletano • RealClearDefense
The Uninsured Sky
By Joe Sandri • RealClearDefense
Counterterrorism and the Growing Convergence in Homeland Security and Homeland Defense
By Austin Doctor • RealClearDefense
How Digital Twins Can Strengthen Naval Readiness Before a Crisis Begins
By Carl Napoletano • RealClearDefense
F-16s Build on Iran Combat Lessons to Prepare for China Threat
By Rebecca Grant • Lexington Institute
Key Space Force Satellites Can’t Talk to Each Other
By T. Hitchens, Breaking Defense
Blue Angels Pilot Scott Laux Removed for Failing To Uphold Standards
By Johnson, PNJ
The Future of the Ground Reconnaissance Enterprise
By Joe Albano, The Connecting File