Air Force
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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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Business/FinancialFuture Air Force One, T-7A Trainer Hit By $1 Billion In Charges In Boeing’s First Quarter
Boeing [BA] on Wednesday said two of its Air Force development programs, the VC-25B presidential transport plane and the T-7A trainer aircraft, suffered more than $1 billion in combined write-offs, […]
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Air ForceE-7 Wedgetail to Replace Some AWACS Planes, U.S. Air Force Says
The U.S. Air Force has decided, “based on market research,” to replace some of its 31 Boeing [BA] E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) planes with the Boeing E-7 […]
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Air ForceSilicon Valley Firm Says It Received AFRL Contract to Test Autonomy Features for Air Force
Silicon Valley’s Reliable Robotics said on Apr. 25 that it has received a small business innovation research Phase II contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to design, develop […]
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Air ForceODIN Logistics Software for F-35 to Reach Field Next Year
The Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter is to begin operating a cloud-based, government-owned logistics software system next year. The F-35 program “is implementing a new strategy to replace the Autonomic […]
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Air ForceUnder 2021 Contract, U.S. Air Force Buys 3rd New BACN-Equipped E-11A
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s (AFLCMC) aerial networks division at Hanscom AFB, Mass., has bought a third Bombardier Global 6000 aircraft to serve as a Battlefield Airborne Communications Node […]
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InternationalLatest $800 Million Weapons Aid To Ukraine Has New ‘Phoenix Ghost’ Drones, Biden To Ask For More Funds
President Biden on Thursday said the U.S. will send another $800 million in military equipment to Ukraine, to include new AEVEX Aerospace-built tactical drones recently developed by the Air Force. […]