Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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Air ForceAir Mobility Command Tests KC-46A Without Co-Pilot for Some Combat Missions
The U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command (AMC) has flight tested a Boeing [BA] KC-46A Pegasus tanker without a co-pilot to verify the aircraft is able to fly with a […]
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Air ForceU.S. Air Force To Re-Start Night Vision Testing of KC-46A Tanker After Delivery of RVS 2.0
On May 5-6, a KC-46A Pegasus tanker assigned to the 22nd Air Refueling Wing at McConnell AFB, Kan., flew more than 24 hours straight–the longest mission in the history of […]
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Air ForceU.S. Air Force Replacing Tail Pipes on B-2 Bomber
The U.S. Air Force is replacing tail pipes on the Northrop Grumman [NOC] B-2 Spirit stealth bomber as a follow-on effort to stopgap work begun a decade ago. Each of […]
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Special OperationsSOCOM Official Highlights HSVTOL Demand for Indo-Pacific and Command Shift to China/Russia Deterrence
A top U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) official on Oct. 26 highlighted the command’s need for High-Speed Vertical Takeoff and Landing (HSVTOL) systems and SOCOM’s planned shift to a 60 […]
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Air ForceOverruns on KC-46A Climb to $6.9 Billion
Cost overruns on the U.S. Air Force’s KC-46A Pegasus tanker have climbed to $6.9 billion from more than $5 billion last December. Under the terms of Air Force’s February 2011 […]
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InternationalBoeing Announces Delivery of AH-64E Version 6 Helicopter to Royal Netherlands Air Force
Boeing [BA] said on Oct. 25 that it has delivered the first AH-64E Version 6 (V6) Apache attack helicopter to the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF). “As part of a […]
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SpacePentagon Advised to Make Hardening of Transport Layer for JADC2 a Priority
A new report from the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies recommends that the Pentagon require the hardening of the Space Development Agency’s envisioned Transport Layer satellites, which are to be […]
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PentagonFormer Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, Creator of DIU, Dies at 68
Former Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, 68, a Rhodes scholar and theoretical physicist who helmed the Pentagon between 2015 and 2017, died of a heart attack on Oct. 24 at his […]
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InternationalCollins Aerospace to Upgrade Chilean C-130s with Eight-Bladed NP2000 Propeller
Collins Aerospace [RTX] said on Oct. 24 that it has upgraded the first Chilean Air Force C-130 transport to the company eight-bladed NP2000 propelle. “The completion of this install marks […]
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ArmyU.S. Army Tries Out Booz Allen Hamilton Modular Detachment Kit at Project Convergence
The U.S. Army has been trying out Booz Allen Hamilton‘s [BAH] Modular Detachment Kit (MDK) in the Project Convergence 2022 (PC 22) experiment in the western United States and the […]
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