Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare

The latest Air Warfare news and analysis from Breaking Defense.

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Weekly Briefing Air Warfare

IDF Explores Ground-to-Ground Rockets; US Co-Production? TEL AVIV: Following the recent rocket attacks from Gaza, Israeli experts say the IDF needs more versions of ground-to-ground rockets to hit enemy rocket launchers. An Israeli defense source told BD that the use of Israeli ground-to-ground missiles in the recent Nagorno-Karabach war "increased the interest in these missiles, especially the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)…

AF Demos C2 Networking Tech To Link Services, Allies At Astral Knight 21 The 606th Air Control Squadron successfully used TORCC during the May 13-21 Astral Knight 21 exercise to relay integrated air and missile defense and C2 information to to pilots, "including directions for missions and threat awareness," according to the 31st Air Wing.

Buy Big F-35 Fleet To Lower Program Costs: SecAF Nominee Kendall "I know there's an issue with the total number that's been on the table for some years," Frank Kendall said. "What we should really be working on most is getting the cost down and keeping the procurement at a rate that makes sense."

Department of the Air Force Mulls Options For Data Sharing "If data is the new oil, then we want to mine that data, refine that data," to make it more useful across the service, Col. Peter Chiou says.

ABMS Grows Up: Air Force Shifts Focus To Delivering Kit A new pod-based comms system for the KC-46, enabling it to serve as a 'translator' for the incompatible radio systems of the F-22 and F-35, will be fielded in the last quarter of fiscal 2022.

Air Force DevStar: Agile Software Development And Innovation For The B-21 Bomber [Sponsored] Northrop Grumman is employing this new derivative of DevOps to ensure that the B-21's mission-critical functions are baked in long before the bomber's first flight.

Learn From Gaza, Prepare For Hezbollah If you thought the recently concluded Gaza conflict was bad, a war with Lebanese Hezbollah would be much worse, involving 100,000 more rockets, many with longer ranges.

Army: Proposals For Cruise Missile Killer Due June 4 In August, the Army will pick a single vendor to build the Indirect Fire Protection Capability (IFPC), focused on countering cruise missiles and larger drones. Later upgrades will add lasers and counter-rocket capability.

US Talks With Israel About Buying More Iron Dome Systems "The fact that the Iron Dome intercepted big salvos of rockets launched from Gaza as well as armed drones is already creating big interest in the channels between the Israeli and the American defense ministries," a defense source told BD.

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

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