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U.S. Air Forces Central’s (AFCENT) Task Force 99 (TF 99) unit at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar began short-range drone intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance flight tests this month, and Air Force Col. Robert Smoker, the unit’s new commander, …
U.S. Space Force needs to ramp up its use of high-fidelity simulators to train personnel how to deter potential adversaries, and, if necessary, defeat them, Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, the service’s chief of space operations said on Feb. 22. “…
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) said on Feb. 22 that it has finished flight testing of an F-16 autonomous gun system–the Digitally Enhanced Aiming Through Control Law, known as “Death Claw.” The latter “completed f…
The U.S. Air Force is nearing an initial postulation of the numbers/ratios of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) to accompany the service’s future force presentation construct for the sixth-generation manned Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) …
U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) on Feb. 16 released two National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 draft Requests for Proposals (RFP) based on a dual-lane acquisition approach to encourage new commercial entrants to bid on low-c…
DoD may award a five-year Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) contract for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter this year, if the program is able to meet conditions set out in the fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Section 356(b) of…
Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Feb. 16 that it executed wind tunnel tests of its LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM for the U.S. Air Force. “Using scaled models of the vehicle, stressed under environments from sub to hypersonic speeds, the robust test campaig…
Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major (Retd.), the only chopper pilot to be chief of the Indian Air Force, just flew HAL’s Light Utility Helicopter … IAF’s Only Chopper Pilot Chief Just Flew The LUH. And Loved It. Read More »
The U.S. Navy is to conduct a first over land live fire flight test of the Northrop Grumman [NOC] AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Extended Range (AARGM-ER) in the near future, a service official said on Feb. 15. “We will be transit…
The U.S. Air Force is searching for companies able to integrate the Raytheon Technologies‘ [RTX] Force Element Terminals (FET) on the B-52 bomber. The FETs are radiation-hardened satellite communications (SATCOM) terminals that are to permit the …