Air Force
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Air ForceUSAF Starting to Take Broad Look at Future KC-Z, As Doubt Cast on ‘Bridge Tanker’
The U.S. Air Force has started to examine the attributes of a KC-Z tanker, but it appears that the future of a KC-Y “bridge tanker” is in doubt. The KC-Y […]
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Air ForceU.S. Air Force Examining If and How It May Accelerate Procurement of E-7 Wedgetail
The U.S. Air Force is investigating if and how it may accelerate the planned procurement of 15 Boeing [BA] E-7 Wedgetails as a partial replacement for the service’s 31 E-3 […]
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Air ForceKendall: System Quality and Resilience More Important Than Force Structure and Lethality
The U.S. Air Force is focusing on system quality and resilience more than system numbers and lethality, as the service requests a record $49.2 billion in research and development in […]
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Air ForceThree Years and Counting, No Results Available from F-35A and A-10C Comparison Testing
U.S. Air Force officials told lawmakers last week that a report is out on the results of comparion testing between the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35A and the A-10C close air […]
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Air ForceUSAF Addressing Link 16 Cryptographic Modernization Delay, Kendall Says
U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said that the service has devoted funding in the last few months to rectify a delay in fielding Link 16 cryptographic modernization for aircraft […]
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Air ForceU.S. Air Force/Navy Could Spend $500 Million for Delivery of F-35 Parts Specifications
Pentagon officials have said that future sustainment of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 will require a mix of contractor maintenance and “organic” maintenance by the U.S. Air Force and Navy. […]
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Air ForceBoeing Rolls Out First EMD T-7A Red Hawk Trainer
Boeing [BA] on Apr. 28 said that it unveiled the first T-7A Red Hawk trainer for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase at the company’s St. Louis plant. The […]
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Air ForceHASC Panel Leaders Surprised by USAF’s Planned Acceleration of Fighter Retirements in Next Five Years
Rep. Donald Norcross (D-N.J.) and Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.), the chair and vice chair, respectively, of the House Armed Services Committee’s tactical air and land forces panel, asked U.S. Air […]
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Air ForceLockheed Martin’s First TPY-4 Radar For Air Force Set To Begin 15 Months Of Open-Air Testing
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Lockheed Martin [LMT] said Monday the company’s first TPY-4 radar, which the Air Force recently selected as its new long-range radar, will soon move to its Cazenovia, […]
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Air ForceUSAF Projects NGAD Unit Cost As ‘Multiple Hundreds of Millions of Dollars’
While the unit flyaway cost of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-22 was $155 million in today dollars and the unit flyaway cost of the company’s F-35A is running more than […]
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