Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare

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Weekly Briefing Air Warfare

Rolls-Royce F130 Engine: American-Made Power for B-52

Presented by Rolls-Royce

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.

Can Special Ops Build A C-130 Seaplane? They're Trying "Is it going to be cost effective? That's why we have several lines of effort early on and there will be plenty of off-ramp [opportunities] along the way to determine if we move forward" said Col. Ken Kuebler, SOCOMs Fixed Wing chief.

HASC Members Blast KC-46 Ahead Of 2022 NDAA "There's a lot of retrofit that will have to take place," Gen. Stephen Lyons said about the replacement of the tanker's faulty boom camera.

Egyptian Deal For Rafale Fighters Boosts Data Sharing Egyptian sources tell Breaking Defense that this may not be the last Rafale purchase. Egypt is now eying the Rafale F4. "We are looking to increase the (overall) number to 72 or 100 units, depending on Egypt's financial capacity."

How China's Thinking About The Next War The PLA Navy (PLAN) and PLA Air Force (PLAAF) are now the world's largest, but China's military modernization is not only focused on equipment. The PRC appears to be  developing new strategies and doctrines. The PLA began shifting in the 1990s from preparing to fight "local wars under modern, high-tech conditions" to "local wars under…

Aerospace Industrial Base Can't Handle The Future: Mitchell Institute The F-35 aside, the report recommends that the Air Force "resist future participation in any joint aircraft procurement or development programs."

Teledyne-FLIR Merger Creates Tactical Drone Powerhouse The combined company will offer a wide range of unmanned vehicles (mostly small ones) for air, land, sea, and underwater, said exec Roger Wells.

Applying Risk Reduction And Digital Engineering: The Air Force's B-52 Re-Engining Program [Sponsored] With hundreds of thousands of hours of digital engineering work done, Rolls-Royce is well ahead of schedule for the F130 engine development.

SOCOM's Armed Overwatch To Fly Grueling New Test Each airplane will have five flights to prove its mettle, with an AFSOC pilot in the back seat for the final mission to observe the plane's flight and handling characteristics.

Israeli Multi Domain War Gets First Test In Gaza TEL AVIV: For the first time, the Israeli Defense Force is using multi-domain operations in the strike against Hamas in Gaza. The air, infantry, armor, artillery and naval forces are finding, fixing and destroying targets in Gaza according to "who has the best shot," an Israeli defense source here says. Key to this is deployment…

Robot Black Hawk To Fly In Project Convergence 21: MOSA Key The wargame will also test new aircraft weapons — a 20 mm cannon and a multi-payload launcher— and a host of electronics enabled by a plug-and-play open architecture, MOSA.

Fleet Decentralization Focus For AF Budget Beyond 2023 How the Air Force embodies its 'agile combat employment' concept depends in part on the future fleet composition — with the F-22's fate a central question.

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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