Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare News and Analysis

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Weekly Briefing Air Warfare

Air Force Expands AI-Based Predictive Maintenance WASHINGTON: The Air Force plans to expand its "predictive maintenance" using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to another 12 weapon systems, says Lt. Gen. Warren Berry, deputy chief of staff for logistics, engineering and force protection. "I continue to believe that predictive maintenance is a real game changer for us as an Air Force,"…

Long-Range All-Domain Prompts Roles & Missions Debate "It's ridiculous, to be quite candid. It is encroachment on roles and missions," says Mitchell Institute's Dave Deptula about Army plans for super long-range weapons that rival the capabilities of Air Force combat aircraft.

DoD Needs New Measures For Valuing Weapons: Mitchell WASHINGTON: The Pentagon should not judge weapon systems on "overly simplistic metrics" but adopt a more holistic evaluation that weighs a weapon's cost and capabilities against the total costs of achieving the mission, a new paper from the Mitchell Institute argues. "All we ever hear is, that the F-22 and the F-35 are expensive. But…

Congress Pushes Pentagon To Finally Kick Turkey Out Of F-35 Program The senators wrote they "remain concerned about the direction Turkey is taking under the leadership of President Erdogan…Turkey is not behaving like a responsible actor or working collaboratively with the West at the level we expect from a NATO ally."

House Appropriators Add 12 F-35s, Boost Weapons Spending, But… "To us, it means that there is going to be much more tension and debate over future modernization programs as flat investment will not enable DoD to recapitalize in a timely and militarily relevant pace," says defense analyst Byron Callan.

'A Golden Age For Collaboration' On Lasers & Microwaves: But Watch The Cheetos!  "I spent the first 15 years of my career walking around in a lab with a laser, saying 'does anyone want this…' and the warfighter [kept] going 'that's adorable,'" Craig Robin recalled ruefully. "Just recently there's been a tremendous pull [because] we simply just got out it into the user's hands and they recognized the value."

Future Missile War Needs New Kind Of Command: CSIS Integrating missile defense – shooting down incoming missiles – with missile offense – destroying the launchers before they fire again – requires major changes in how the military fights.

IBCS: Army Launches Massive Army Missile Defense Test Postponed seven weeks by the pandemic, the high-stakes field test of the IBCS missile defense network is now back on, with elaborate precautions against COVID-19.

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