Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare

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Weekly Briefing Air Warfare

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New Navy Command To Oversee Unmanned Ships As They Work With Fleet The Navy is standing up its first operational unmanned ship command, a big moment in the Pentagon's move toward autonomy

Don't Rush To JADC2: Army Gen. Murray EXCLUSIVE Each service has unique problems to solve and billions invested in legacy systems. "I just can't throw away everything we own — nor can the Air Force — and start over," says Gen. John "Mike" Murray, head of Army Futures Command. "How does the Air Force architecture integrate with the Army architecture, with the Navy architecture?"

US Army, Marines, Special Forces Eye Israeli 'Hero' Attack Drones Uvision's Hero line of loitering munitions – aka kamikaze drones – carry precision-guided warheads ranging from just over a pound to 17-plus lbs.

Big New Interceptor Deal Part Of Biden Missile Defense Push "The real differentiator here is the acquisition strategy, with a lot of competition — a lot of 'fly before you buy' — built in," CSIS' Tom Karako says. "The relatively longer NGI development timeline for homeland ballistic missile defense can be mitigated by near-term improvements" in ground missile defense.

OSD Writes Hypersonic Flight Test Guidelines "I don't want to get into any specifics," Mike White told me, "but some of the challenges we've had so far getting to flight have been, in certain instances, avoidable."

Pentagon Weighs Guam Missile Defense Money For 2022 Budget "There's a need in the near-term to defend against all of those [Chinese missile] threats from a 360-degree standpoint, and if the answer is Aegis, I'm ready to support it," the presumptive head of Indo-PACOM told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

'Land Forces Are Hard To Kill': Army Chief Unveils Pacific Strategy A new strategy paper from Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville says forward-deployed Army forces will survive inside Chinese missile strikes and fatally disrupt the PLA's plans.

UK All In On FCAS Fighter In New Defense Plan "We've committed to 48, we'll buy 48" F-35s, UK Minister for the Armed Forces, James Heappey, said. The original plan was to buy 138 fifth-generation fighters, but British officials in recent months have declined to say that number is still the target.

Army Missiles, Missile Defense Race Budget Crunch To 2023 "In my career, certainly this is the most amount of modernization I've seen," Brig. Gen. Brian Gibson says. Can multiple Army programs make their 2023 deadline?

Israelis Worry About CH-53K King Stallion Engines The US Director of Operational Test and Evaluation's annual report says the CH-53K engine's performance degrades bellow the accepted minimum after 21 minutes of dust exposure. This is causing great concern in the IAF as it eyes buying the first batch of 20 helicopters.

Bye-Bye, B-52s & Carriers; Hello, More Destroyers & F-35s The US needs to shift investment from hallowed but vulnerable legacy platforms – especially aircraft carriers and B-52 bombers – to more flexible and survivable weapons systems – above all, Aegis warships and the unfairly much-maligned F-35.

Block 4 Software Issues Could Cause F-35 Capability Delays, Costly Retrofits "The biggest potential challenge is that these modernization elements don't reach the warfighter as quickly as they'd hoped," one expert said.

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