Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare

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Weekly Briefing Air Warfare

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We Can Delay No Longer: It's Time To Retire Older Fleets Today's technology won't win tomorrow's fight and there aren't enough resources to win while maintaining our current fleet. A modernized force is the only way to keep our nation, allies, and communities safe," writes Gen. Arnold Bunch.

F-35 Engine Maker Braces For Sustainment Cost Spike Scheduled maintenance for the F-35's engine in the mid-2020s will drive up the price of engine sustainment, just as the Pentagon expects cost reduction goals come to fruition.

New Compass Call Electronic Warfare Plane Takes To The Skies The US Air Force is one step closer to having a new aircraft for jamming enemy communications.

Between E-3 And Eyes In Space, The Air Force Needs A Bridge, Now The Air Force has valiantly breathed life into the decades-old E-3 Sentry platform, but as top service officials recently suggested, it can no longer wait for the jump to space-based systems, the authors write in this op-ed. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Bradley Bowman, Maj. Lauren Harrison and Ryan Brobst argue that as Russia…

149 Chinese Fighters, Bombers Sweep Across Taiwan ADIZ In 4 Days The Chinese flights are not likely to abate any time soon, Dean Cheng, a top Chinese military expert at the Heritage Foundation, says.

NATO's Big Concern from Russia's Zapad Exercise: Putin's Forces Lingering in Belarus The Russian-Belarusian exercise may be over, but its biggest question – what Russian forces stay behind in Belarus – will now be answered.

Lockheed Martin's Precision Strike Missile Enters Next Phase with Army Lockheed Martin received $62 million for the engineering phase of PrSM following a successful milestone B evaluation.

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