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Air Power
May 2023
JUST IN: Potential Budget Crunch ‘Devastating’ for Air Force, Hinders Jet Fighter Drone R&D
The fiscal year 2023 budget and the proposed 2024 budget include substantial increases in funding for the Air Force, which is scrambling to modernize and acquire a host of new systems, and the House of Representatives debt ceiling proposal that would return federal spending to 2022 levels next year would hobble the Air and Space Forces, a senior official said. -
Air Power
May 2023
Air Force Fleshing Out Key Component Of NGAD Program
The Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance, or NGAD, platform intended to replace current fifth-generation fighter jets has long been shrouded in secrecy, but the service has been providing more details about one component of the program — the jet fighter drones that will team with the piloted sixth-generation aircraft. -
Special Operations
April 2023
SOCOM's New Recon Aircraft to Pack Big Punch
By Jan TeglerWhen Special Operations Command selected L3Harris Technologies and Air Tractor Inc.’s AT-802U Sky Warden for its Armed Overwatch program last August, the command didn’t have a formal designation for the rugged, versatile, single-engine airplane now known as the OA-1K. But they did have a mission in mind. -
Air Power
April 2023
BREAKING: Commercial Tanker Refuels Navy Poseidon Aircraft
A KC-135R tanker performed the first-ever commercial boom aerial refueling of a receiver by a commercial tanker earlier this month, according to a Metrea press release. -
Air Power
March 2023
JUST IN: DARPA Developing X-Plane for Special Operators
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has kicked off a program to develop a runway-independent X-plane for Special Operations Command. -
Air Power
March 2023
JUST IN: Report Advocates for Air Force to Buy at Least 20 B-21s Per Year
The Air Force must ramp up the production of its next-generation B-21 Raider strategic bombers as quickly as possible in order to rebuild the United States’ long-range strike advantage, according to a new report. -
Air Force News
March 2023
Air Force Pressing for Rapid E-7A Production
Air Force officials are hoping to accelerate the production process for E-7A battle management and command and control aircraft, but it will be difficult to deliver the plane in fewer than 60 months, according to manufacturer Boeing. -
Air Power
March 2023
JUST IN: Future Jet Fighter Could Be Held Together With ‘Glue’
CHIBA, Japan — A jet fighter Japan, Italy and the United Kingdom are jointly developing maybe constructed out of composites and put together using an adhesive bond. -
Air Power
March 2023
JUST IN: Air Force Planning for 1,000 Uncrewed Aircraft to Support NGAD
While details on the Next-Generation Air Dominance, or NGAD, program are still scarce, the Air Force is moving forward with an initial planning target of 1,000 collaborative combat aircraft to accompany the future fighters and existing F-35s into combat, according to the service’s secretary. -
Training and Simulation
March 2023
JUST IN: Vendors Announce Partnership to Expand AR Flight Training Tech
Lockheed Martin, Korea Aerospace Industries and Red 6 are partnering to bring Red 6’s Airborne Tactical Augmented Reality System, or ATARS, into the TF-50 jet trainer aircraft and variants so pilots can live-train against virtual adversaries.
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