Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare News and Analysis

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Weekly Briefing Air Warfare

Case Study: Meeting Missile Upgrade Needs with Power-Efficient Transmitters

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Learn how an organization overcame challenges to successfully meet a missile upgrade's objectives, including increasing the missile's range and ensuring a low-risk transmitter qualification program.

Aboard USS Ford: More Weapons, More Launches, Faster & Safer SOMEWHERE OFF THE EAST COAST: When our aging C-2 Greyhound aircraft took off from the USS Gerald R. Ford the experience was clearly different. Propelled by the electro-magnetic system that has replaced steam catapults it was much smoother and much quicker. The new launch and landing systems provide key tools for a significant reshaping of the…

RCO To Manage ABMS Buys; Tankers First To Sport New Data Links "When you can launch an austere airbase in a space capsule, that's frickin' awesome," says AF acquisition head Will Roper about the idea of suborbital transport spacecraft.

Dunlap On Zero Trust, Agility & ADO Cybersecurity In part four of our exclusive video interview, Preston Dunlap discusses one of toughest challenges to All Domain Operations: integrating an effective tactical edge node into the larger network.

MQ-9 Reapers to the UAE: Why Now? BEIRUT: The United Arab Emirates has long sought advanced American armed drones. That day appears to be close. The US State Department has notified Congress it plans to sell 18 battle-ready MQ-9B drones worth an estimated $2.9 billion to the UAE as part of a bigger deal that includes up to 50 F-35 fighter jets, as…

New International Partnerships Could Spur Hosted Payloads: Gen. Thompson SMC is "working on innovative relationships with, believe it or not, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and some other places you wouldn't think of as traditional spacefaring nations," says Gen. DT Thompson, Space Force vice.

Space Force Struggles To Shape New Acquisition Command "There is history; there is legacy; there is politics; there is money — obstacles that we're going to have to overcome to do this," says SMC head Gen. 'JT' Thompson.

Aircraft Readiness Is Bad & Getting Worse: GAO Of 46 types of aircraft surveyed – from the new F-35 to the aging JSTARS – not one met the Pentagon's goal of being 80 percent "mission capable." Most of them, in fact, keep getting worse.

Pathfinder: The MQ-9 You Don't Know [Sponsored]

Take another look. The world's workhorse unmanned aerial system (UAS) is adding a host of upgrades designed to win the fight now and bring the future faster.

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