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Looking to make a quick start on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s sweeping “FORTRESS America” program to make every military base in the U.S. more self sufficient, the Pentagon is dialing up its efforts in an area the Air Force has been working for several years: energy resilience and independence.
The ex-USAF KC-10 is now headed for a second career in the private sector with Omega Air Refueling.
Roughly two of every five fighters in the Air Force fleet could be F-35As by 2035, according to a new fighter force structure report the service submitted to Congress on Oct. 16. Lt. Gen. David Tabor, deputy chief of staff for plans and programs, revealed the new estimate during an Oct. 20 media roundtable at the Pentagon as he explained the report’s estimates of the future force’s mix of different types of fighters.
Reducing the speed at which weapons using Starlink can operate affects critical defensive and offensive weapons, but any alternatives have massive drawbacks.
The pursuit of over-the-horizon radars to watch over the strategic High North could point to a new role for the HAARP site.
The U.S. is looking at upgrades to support cargo, fighter aircraft, and more troops.
A U.S. Army air defense unit has been "earmarked" for support of the Golden Dome for America project, an Army official confirmed.
The fighter jet’s pilot served as an airborne “quarterback” and gave high-level directives to an Anduril-made Collaborative Combat Aircraft.
New developments from MARSS, MyDefence, Mountain Horse Solutions and Rafael suggest that future counter-drone protection will increasingly depend on combining advanced detection, rapid interception and integrated defensive networks.
The Air Force is investigating after a Tactical Air Control Party instructor died Oct. 17 from injuries suffered during what appeared to be an uncontrolled descent during a rappelling demonstration at a college football game in San Antonio, Texas. Officials also identified the Airman as Tech. Sgt. Ian Patterson.
A broader competition for Germany’s CCA requirement is now likely to extend into the next decade.
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center is moving forward with a program to upgrade a quarter-century-old computing system for some F-16 fighter jets.
[Sponsored] New threats, including downstream attacks, drive the need for improved tools to protect critical assets.
We don't have to endure bizarrely small size estimates for the B-21 anymore.
A heavy-lift hexacopter is shown pulling a wounded soldier from what Ukraine describes as a drone-saturated kill zone in what would be a world first.
Recognizing the massive gap, Canberra has launched a formal tender for a medium-range, ground-based air defense solution for the Australian Army.
More than 40 years after the original YF-117 operational prototype flew test runs from a Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility, an F-117 returned for a $1 million refurbishment to look its best when it assumes its place in history alongside other iconic aircraft on permanent exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum’s Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. Air & Space Forces Magazine was on hand to witness the F-117's 2,254-mile journey across the United States as a passenger aboard t…
U.S. defense firm Anduril could eventually manufacture its newly unveiled Steelfin interceptor missiles in Europe, a company executive said.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has completed flight testing of the SNC Electronic Support Measures (ESM) system on the … mehr...
This is a key milestone as F-22s will be the Air Force's first aerial 'quarterbacks' for Collaborative Combat Aircraft drones.
Ukraine said on Wednesday that SpaceX had restricted “military-grade” Starlink services, hampering Ukrainian drone strike missions and air defenses.
A U.S. Air Force F-22 pilot controlled a YFQ-44A Fury Collaborative Combat Aircraft this month while both aircraft were in flight, according to an Oct. 16 release, another milestone in the service’s ambitious CCA efforts.
A vision of Army units launching long-range one-way attack drones at enemy warships and ballistic missiles in the Pacific and Europe is taking shape.
After 55 years with the Tutor, the aerobatic team faces an extended hiatus before transitioning to the PC-21 turboprop in the early 2030s.
The state will receive 12 of the unmanned aircraft systems by the end of 2029.
Almost a decade ago, the Air Force created Kessel Run in 2017 as a military-commercial partnership and Airmen-led “software factory” in response to the service’s troubled rollout of the Air Operations Center 10.2. New leader Col. Brian Viola sat down recently with Air & Space Forces Magazine to talk about where Kessel Run has been and where it’s headed.
CEO Thomas Akers told Breaking Defense that the company’s recent acquisition by Norwegian defense firm Kongsberg offers “an immediate step change” for the startup firm, whose portfolio now spans from a reusable drone interceptor to a low-cost cruise missile.
Branded Content: Reconfigurable, platform-agnostic, palletized solutions are taking priority for Army's mobile counter-unmanned aerial systems mission.
Germany has set a target of 2029 to field a CCA, which would make it the first European country to reach such a milestone, but that timeline now looks to be in doubt.
Hanwha Systems laser weapons shot down target drones during a South Korean Army demonstration, the company said.