Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said this week that two booster flight tests this year of a prototype Lockheed Martin [LMT] AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) have not changed his view on the utility of hypersonic weapons. “Hypersonics to me are not a panacea,” Kendall ...
Weapons
The U.S. Air Force is awarding about $45 million to Lockheed Martin [LMT], Northrop Grumman [NOC] and L3Harris Technologies [LHX] for the next step in the service’s Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW) program. Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman each received $15 million firm-fixed-price, research ...
On June 30, the U.S. Air Force 28th Test and Evaluation Squadron and 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron (TES) conducted the first live fire test of the Raytheon Technologies [RTX] AIM-120D3 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) Form, Fit, Function, Refresh (F3R) from an F-15E Strike ...
The U.S. Air Force said on July 13 that a prototype Lockheed Martin [LMT] AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) scored its second booster flight test success on July 12 off the southern California coast. ARRW Booster Test Flight-3 “was the 12th flight for the program and third ...
The Global Air and Space Chiefs Conference this week in London will delve into future warfighting concepts harnessing artificial intelligence/machine learning for kinetic and command and control purposes; quantum computing; the transition from crewed to uencrewed systems; and lessons learned for ...
The future Combat Collaborative Aircraft (CCA) may have a role in future U.S. Air Force jamming missions, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown said on June 22. “One of the [Air Force] operational imperatives is the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) family of systems, and that ...