The final requirements for the Air Force’s T-X trainer call for a fleet of 350 aircraft and a training system, including simulators and courseware, that can be bought and operated for $1 billion a year for 20 years, in base-year...
Lower costs are key to the final T-X requirements released last week, along with filling the holes in training of future fighter and bomber pilots who can’t learn all the skills they need from the aging T-38. The unclassified T-X...
The requirements for the Air Force’s T-X trainer don’t call for the airplane to be capable of the aggressor mission, but the jet is to have sufficient space, weight, power, and cooling to accommodate that role in the future. Lt....
An MQ-1 Predator remotely piloted aircraft crashed in Syria last week, marking the first reported RPA loss of Operation Inherent Resolve. The Syrian government claimed its air defense forces shot it down, although the Pentagon said the aircraft lost contact...
US Central Command released new figures detailing airstrike targets in Operation Inherent Resolve, revealing a total of 5,314 individual targets, from fighting positions to weapons caches, have been struck since the campaign began in August 2014. The target list has...
The US military doesn’t face “near-peer” threats anymore; they’re even, said Air Force acquisition chief William LaPlante. The Air Force is having real trouble staying ahead of potential adversaries, he said March 19 in testimony before the Senate Armed Services...
The Air Force is “thousands of weapons short” of needed stocks, Lt. Gen. James Holmes, deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and requirements, told Senate legislators March 19. Addressing the Senate Armed Services airLand subcommittee, Holmes asked for support...
The Republican plan to add $90 billion to the Pentagon’s Fiscal 2016 overseas contingencies operations account as a means of addressing shortfalls caused by sequester is an expensive way to solve the problem, USAF officials told a Senate Armed Services...
The Air Force Weather Agency will redesignate as the 557th Weather Wing, becoming the service’s largest meteorological organization at Offutt AFB, Neb., effective March 27, officials announced. “This transition to an operational wing will allow us to be more ops-focused...
The Defense Department’s 2015 Warrior Games will be held at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., June 19-28, according to a recent Pentagon release. Some 200 wounded, ill, and injured service members and veterans from the Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine...