A year after setting a goal of speeding up Foreign Military Sales cases, the State Department reported that the U.S. set a record for FMS sales in 2023, totaling $80.9 billion. Poland was the biggest customer, buying attack helicopters, tanks, and artillery.
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Three U.S. service members were killed and at least 34 troops were injured in an overnight attack at a base in Jordan Jan. 28, the U.S. said. It marked the first U.S. troops killed in the region since the Israel-Hamas war began in October and ...
The Mitchell Institute conducted a wargame and associated studies to assess how a family of uncrewed Collaborative Combat Aircraft could increase the lethality, survivability, and capacity of the Air Force’s air superiority forces for operations in highly contested environments.
WORLD: Weapons: Sentinel 37% Over Cost; USAF orders 1,500 SDBs; WC-135 Nuke Sniffer Upgrade.
WORLD: Space: Space Command reaches FOC; New Space Force Exercise, Red Skies; Space Planes most watched on orbit; SDA getting 18 more transport layer satellites.
WORLD Airpower: Force Design 2050; AFFORGEN; New F-15EX fighters arrive.
Frank Kendall ordered in September a sweeping review of five lines of effort across the department, seeking to uproot the impediments to current and future readiness.
The CCA is envisioned as an uncrewed, relatively low-observable aircraft that can escort or coordinate with crewed aircraft, performing missions such as electronic warfare, defense suppression, as a communications node or as a flying extra magazine of weapons.
There is no real guidebook for aircrews on how to adjust their body clock and their circadian rhythm to perform on a different shift. Each individual is trying to navigate that on their own without guidance.