Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare News and Analysis

The latest Air Warfare news and analysis from Breaking Defense.

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Weekly Briefing Air Warfare

Biden Pledged New Missile Defenses, His Pentagon May Be About To Deliver There have been questions about the Biden Administration's missile defense plan; some of those may be answered in coming weeks

Roles & Missions Scrub Needed For All Domain Ops: CSAF Brown The Pentagon needs to look at "seams, gaps and overlaps" as they implement the new strategy for All Domain Ops, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown says.

'Clean Sheet' F-16 Replacement In The Cards: CSAF Brown "In the budget for FY 23, that's where I see that we'll really make some key decisions" about the tactical air fleet, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown says.

DARPA Builds AI To Avoid Army, AF Fratricide "ASTARTE helps solve the problem how to decide where physically to move [air assets] to conduct operations … even when it is an incredibly complex battlespace," says Tim Grayson, head of DARPA's Strategic Technologies Office.

AFSOC Pitches New Light Attack Plane To Congress "The whole reason we're doing this is because the National Defense Strategy talks about the need to do cost effective [counter-terrorism] operations, cost effective irregular warfare," AFSOC commander Gen. Slife said.

IDEX: Defense Firms Oppose Israeli Decision To Stop UAE Flights Israeli sources say only a "miracle" can solve the problem. They are not believers in miracles, but they say this one might come at the last minute in the shape of intervention by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

US, European Fighters in Mideast Share ISR Data Well While potential Rafale deals are likely for some Arab countries, how are the platforms currently in operation at sharing data?

AF, Navy May Both Fly DARPA Missile Mothership One of three current contenders for the LongShot program will be chosen to go into flight test, "based on the currently allocated budget," a DARPA spokesperson told Breaking D.

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

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