Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare

The latest Air Warfare news and analysis from Breaking Defense.

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Weekly Briefing Air Warfare

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Our F130 engine brings a reliable and combat-proven engine to the B-52 engine replacement program. With 25M+ flight hours in the engine family, the F130 is already a part of the U.S. Air Force Fleet.

Israel To US: We Won't Stop Strikes "This time Hamas will pay the full price for its actions. Gaza will have to perform huge reconstruction work to fix the heavy damage caused by Israel since the fighting began," a defense source says.

ALIS Working Better, But F-35 Full-Rate Date Still Unclear "I don't sense that the lack of that milestone is doing anything other than providing a launching point for criticism of the program," JPO Director Lt. Gen. Eric Fick said.

Wormuth Defends Army Budget, Missile Programs The nominee for Army Secretary also aims to end "friction" between civilian acquisition officials and Army Futures Command, she told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Air Force May Tilt To Drones: CSAF Brown "I want to really put a mark on the wall to start driving ourselves in that direction," CSAF Gen. CQ Brown told the annual McAleese conference today.

Air Guard Shows Off New 'Ghost Reaper' Chops At Northern Edge Ghost Reaper upgrades include Northrop Grumman's Freedom Pod, which houses the company's gateway radio system that can connect fourth- and fifth-generation fighters.

Army Discloses Hypersonic LRHW Range Of 1,725 Miles; Watch Out China The Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon can fly over 2,775 km, an Army official told Breaking Defense. That figure probably applies to the Navy's CPS version as well.

Egypt, US Commit To Bright Star, Shared Logistics Egypt's geo-strategic location and status as largest Arab power makes it a vital partner to the U.S. military, even with Egyptian diversification policy that includes acquiring Russian jets.

Army Plans To Grow Artillery EXCLUSIVE The Army will create new field artillery battalions in its heavy divisions, armed with the new Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) armored howitzer. It's part of a plan to add new Long-Range Precision Fire weapons at every level of command.

HAC-D Wants Space Acquisition Exec Post Filled Now HAC-D Chair Rep. Betty McCollum and the Ranking Member Rep. Ken Calvert used today's hearing to decry DoD's failure to fundamentally overhaul space acquisition.

US-Israel Team To Battle Iran Missiles TEL AVIV: White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Israeli national security adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat have agreed to establish an interagency working group to focus on the threat from Iran's precision-guided missiles being shared with Hezbollah and other allies. Israeli defense sources told BD that while the Trump Administration focused on how to stop…

Jamming Strikes OSCE Drones Tracking Russian Forces Since March, the OSCE's "long-range UAVs have been experiencing increased levels of GPS signal interference on take-off and landing, affecting both of their GPS receivers," the group said in a statement.

All-Domain Demo Links U-2, F-35 & F-22 The demonstration, dubbed Project Hydra, was partially funded by the Air Force and the Missile Defense Agency, says Lockheed Martin's Dan Markham.

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

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