The Air Force’s internal analysis has left Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. confident in the capacity of the service’s combat aircraft fleet—especially when considering what the U.S.’s partners and allies can bring to the fight. Speaking with reporters at AFA’s Air, Space ...
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Aggressive competitors, limited resources, and accelerating technological advances compel the Air Force to rapidly transform, as it has during other inflection points in its 75-year history, Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. said. “We’ve done this before … we can do it again,” ...
The Advanced Battle Management System's best chance against failing is to create a czar for command, control, and communications who will have top-down support to enforce decisions, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told reporters at AFA's Air, Space & Cyber Conference. He also discussed topics ...
Senior Air Force officials revealed during AFA's Air, Space & Cyber Conference just how profoundly the potential for conflict with an increasingly aggressive China has come to dominate internal counsels and the service’s strategic plans.
Air Mobility Command has cleared the KC-46 Pegasus tanker for worldwide deployments and combatant commander taskings, including in combat, commander Gen. Mike Minihan announced at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference.
Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer is teaming with L3Harris Technologies to further develop its KC-390 Millennium platform as an “Agile Tanker” for the Air Force’s agile combat employment concept. The two companies said they have signed an agreement to expand the KC-390’s capabilities, including advanced boom ...
As the Air Force prepares to declare initial operating capability for the HH-60W Jolly Green II, the service's new combat search and rescue helicopter, the manufacturer is pushing back on the idea that its helicopter isn't suited to combat in the Pacific—and on planned cuts ...
Lockheed Martin will soon begin a campaign of flight tests of its “Speed Racer” uncrewed air vehicle, aiming for an expendable, modular vehicle that will cooperate with the F-35 and cost well below $2 million a copy, said the director of the company's Skunk Works ...
B-1B bombers from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, were everywhere from south of the equator to just outside the Arctic circle last week as they flew missions and training exercises across the Western hemisphere.