Air Force

Kratos [KTOS] said on Nov. 3 that it recently flew a production XQ-58A Valkyrie aircraft at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. for the Block 2 Valkyrie maturation program. The test flight […]

LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, Md.–While the U.S. Air Force has installed the Northrop Grumman [NOC] AN/APG-83 scalable agile beam radar (SABR) on dozens of Air National Guard F-16s, the service also equips F-15E Strike […]

LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, Md.–The Northrop Grumman [NOC] campus here has a more than five-decade history, beginning as Westinghouse, and today developing a variety of systems, including the Electronically-Scanned Multifunction Reconfigurable Integrated […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]