Ukraine is stepping up its appeals for modern fighter jets now that the U.S and NATO allies have agreed to send main battle tanks to help counter Russia’s stepped up ground attacks, a Ukrainian official said. “Until today, the major focus in the discussions have been ...
Manpower, material, and funding remain the foundation—and a key concern—for the Air Force’s top-to-bottom nuclear modernization effort, a pair of top generals said Jan. 24. That modernization effort covers everything from personnel to weapons systems to entire facilities, and the service must execute this massive ...
When the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meets in Germany late this month, provision of fighters to Ukraine will be a key topic of discussion, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe and retired Gen. Tod D. Wolters said. While he thinks it should happen, he sees the ...
With the Air Force poised to pour significant resources into its Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program, the service shouldn't become fixated on a particular price point for each of the unmanned aircraft to the point of neglecting capability or reliability, two of the generals helping ...
With the unveiling of the B-21 Raider, speculation and interest in the new bomber have reached a fever pitch, with a first flight still to come in mid-2023. But the B-21 won’t just be about the large, flying wing aircraft that rolled out in Palmdale, ...
U.S. Space Command is “making good progress” toward goals to network the Defense Department’s space-based missile defense and other sensors and to transform single-purpose satellites to do more than one job, said Army Gen. James H. Dickinson. The command’s leader since August 2020, he also ...
China is building up its space capabilities at an “incredible rate”—and it has done so by embracing needed principles the U.S. has historically been slow to adopt, top Space Force officials said. Speaking at the Mitchell Institute’s Spacepower Security Forum, both Vice Chief of Space ...
The Space Force is poised for two major changes in November, with a new Chief of Space Operations taking command early in the month and the service’s component for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command standing up a few weeks later. Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. David ...
The Space Force must be given leadership over disparate elements of the U.S. military's joint all-domain command and control effort, according to a paper by AFA's Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. JADC2 is the Defense Department's effort to improve command and control by collecting more ...
Retired Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula, dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, moderated a discussion on "Air & Space Warriors Now & Tomorrow" with Lt. Gen. Brian S. Robinson, commander of Air Education and Training Command; Maj. Gen. Shawn N. Bratton, commander of ...
Retired Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula, dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, moderated a discussion on "Building Capacity Today, While Innovating Capabilities for Tomorrow" with Rep. Kaiali'i Kahele (D-Hawaii), Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas), and retired Col. Mark Gunzinger of the Mitchell Institute at ...
Retired Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula moderated a discussion on "Long-Range Strike: Fielding Tomorrow's Bomber" with Maj. Gen. Jason R. Armagost, director of strategic plans, programs, and requirements, Air Force Global Strike Command; Melissa A. Johnson, acting director of the DAF Rapid Capabilities Office; Thomas ...