Air Force

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The U.S. Air Force is flying two sorties per week of the “production representative” test Northrop Grumman [NOC] B-21 Raider stealth bomber as the service aims to move […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–As the F-35 program aims to deliver a “fully combat capable” fighter next year with the Technology Refresh-3 (TR-3) software upgrade–the foundation for dozens of envisioned Block 4 […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command’s (AFSOC) fleet of 51 Bell [TXT]-Boeing [BA] CV-22 tiltrotors may be flying without restrictions by the end of this year or […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—A network of low-cost acoustic sensors developed and in use by Ukrainian forces to detect and counter low flying one-way drones launched by Russian forces is so effective […]

Anduril Industries and General Atomics may conduct first flights in the next year of their Fury and Gambit offerings for the first increment of the U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The U.S. Air Force has projected that it will finish an Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) this fall on the Next Generation Air Refueling System (NGAS) to succeed the […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Monday revealed an in-development longer range variant of the AGM-158 cruise missile, the XR. The new AGM-158 XR is being developed only […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–In the past, the U.S. Air Force has estimated a unit cost of several hundred million dollars for the manned Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter (NGAD), but Air […]

The U.S. State Department has approved a $7.2 billion foreign military sale (FMS) to Romania of 32 Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35A fighters and a $4.1 billion FMS to Japan of […]

House and Senate appropriators are advising cutting the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC)’s Missile Warning/Missile Tracking Epoch 1 program for Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)–also known as Missile Track […]