Air Force
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Air ForceTwo AGM-190As Fired Recently in AFRICOM, LRIP for 45 Underway
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) recently fired two ramp-launched Leidos [LDOS] AGM-190A Havoc Spear small cruise missiles in combat strikes from an AC-130J gunship against ground targets […]
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Air ForceSwarm Aero Tosses Hat In The Ring For Massed Modular Aircraft
Swarm Aero on Monday unveiled Gamera, the company’s offering for the Air Force’s future Massed Modular Aircraft (MMA) to replace the current MQ-9A Reaper surveillance and strike drones. Gamera will […]
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Air ForceUSAF Discussing CCA, Increment 2 Attributes
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The U.S. Air Force is discussing requirements for Increment 2 of the service’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program. “We’re going through some thought machinations about what should Inc […]
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Air ForceF-35s Operating In Middle East Maintaining High Mission Capable Rates, ACC Official Says
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—F-35s participating in combat operations in the Middle East for the past year have been well resourced in terms of spare parts and supporting logistics and the payoff […]
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Air ForceUSAF, Northrop Detail Sentinel ICBM ‘Vertical Stacking’ Demo, On Track For Flight Tests In 2027
The Air Force and Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Monday said they recently completed a full assembly of the LGM-35A Sentinel future intercontinental ballistic missile in its “operational orientation,” citing the […]
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SpaceMeink: U.S. Has Orbital Space Weapons, SB-AMTI To Launch This Month, 500 CCAs by 2032
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The United States has orbital space weapons, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said on Monday. “What’s becoming even more important as we move forward is sensing and command […]
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Air ForceSkunk Works Plans First Flight of Vectis Prototype By End of Next Year
Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Skunk Works division plans to fly a Vectis drone prototype by the end of next year and to build another four aircraft to accelerate development and the […]
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Space
Pentagon Wants AI System to Understand and Predict Space Threats
The Pentagon’s Silicon Valley-based Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is looking for domestic and foreign company proposals for an artificial intelligence (AI) system to understand and predict space threats. “Today’s space […]
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Air ForceUSAF Forecasts Big Dollar Demand In Next Decade for F-15EXs
The U.S. Air Force is projecting a big dollar demand in the next decade for the service’s F-15EX Eagle II fighter by Boeing [BA] and for modifications to existing F-15s […]
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SpaceTwo Task Order Awards Notched By Lockheed Martin for GPS Ground Segment
In April, the Pentagon canceled the previously planned GPS Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX) by RTX [RTX] in favor of upgrades to the existing Architecture Evolution Plan (AEP) by […]