Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare News and Analysis

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Weekly Briefing Air Warfare

Game Changer: The Case for Medium Altitude Persistent Air Power

Presented by GEN. FRANK GORENC, USAF (RET.)

As tensions rise, ISR demand will increase exponentially as will the need for kinetic response to threats.  In this Game Changer from Breaking Defense, the former four-star commander of both U.S. Air Forces in Europe and NATO Allied Air Command makes the case for medium-altitude persistent air power in the form of the MQ-9.  View Game Changer here.

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Air Force Flight Tests B-21 Avionics; Program 'On Right Track' "I know we're not going to be immune from design flaws," Air Force RCO head Randy Walden said of the B-21 program. "We're going to have to work through those, and we're doing some of that today."

IBCS: Army Missile Defense Passes Most Complex Test Yet Even with a relay taken down by jamming, the new IBCS network was able to fuse targeting data from Patriot and Sentinel radars, then shoot down two cruise missile surrogates with a single PAC-3 interceptor apiece.

AF 'Olympics' Seeks To Speed 3D Printing Capabilities Gen. Arnold Bunch, head of Air Materiel Command, said that 64 teams are competing in the Advanced Manufacturing Olympics for a total of $1 million in prize winnings.

Army Electronic Warfare: Big Tests In '21 The Stryker-mounted TLS and drone-borne MFEW are the first two nodes in a networked arsenal of sensors and jammers to combat high-tech foes.

Lockheed Martin Ventures Scouts Next-Gen AI/ML Tech "There's a massive scramble for autonomy engineers, software — you name it," says Chris Moran, Lockheed Martin executive director.

Spacepower Is 'Catastrophically Decisive' In War: New Space Force Doctrine "Because military spacepower has the potential to be the difference between victory and defeat, it must be viewed with equal importance as military power in any other domain," the Spacepower Capstone Publication says.

ULA, SpaceX Nab 5-Year NatSec Launch Contracts ULA's immediate award is $337 million for two launches. SpaceX's won $316 million for one launch, Will Roper said.

GPS Anti-Jam M-Code Takes Two Steps Forward Once 24 GPS III satellites are on orbit, the encrypted M-Code for military users will be available world wide.

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