Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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Air ForceDoD to Examine Options for Hard and Deeply Buried Targets
While the Biden administration’s Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) has proposed retiring the B83 megaton capable gravity bomb, the Pentagon is to examine nuclear and conventional options against hard and deeply […]
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CongressFormer Government Ethics Official Raises Issue of Members of Congress Holding and Trading Defense Stock
On June 23rd this year, Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), sold between $50,001 and $100,000 of Lockheed Martin [LMT] stock held in […]
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Air ForcePoland Leasing MQ-9A Reapers As Interim Step in Drone Buy
Poland is leasing General Atomics‘ MQ-9A Reaper drones as an interim step in the nation’s planned buy of Reapers and Turkish TB2 Bayraktars to help defend Poland from possible Russian […]
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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 […]