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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....
16h 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...
1d 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...
1d 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...
2d 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...
6d 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"Super F-22' Propels Rator to Fly With F-47 Into 2060s
Despite new fighters, the F-22's advanced upgrades will keep it dominant in air combat through the 2060s, countering evolving threats....
1w agoRead it on Warrior MavenHow Fighter Jets Can (and Will) ‘Headbutt’ Enemy Planes
When you need to intercept a plane without shooting it down......
1w agoRead it on We Are the Mighty
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Marine Died of Injuries Suffered During Fast-Rope Training on Okinawa
By Brian McElhiney, Stars and Stripes
Drones Built To Look Like Birds Evaded Detection at Air Force Tech Exercise
By T&P
Navy Unfairly Evaluated Saildrone Musv Proposal, Court Finds
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HII and Thales Demonstrate UUV with End-to-End Autonomous MCM
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General Atomics Joins Army-Navy Hypersonic Glide Body Production
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