Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare News and Analysis

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Weekly Briefing Air Warfare

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Air Force To Launch 4G LTE At 20 More Bases Next Month "While we're all focused on 5G, and we've got a lot of possibilities in 5G, we also know 5G is not an endpoint," said Dan Massey, one of three 5G program leads at OUSDR&E. "So, what goes beyond 5G?"

F-35, Reaper Sale To UAE Draws Fire In Senate, Fuels Concern Over Libya With the UAE turning to China for armed drones, policymakers in the Trump administration worry about Beijing's efforts to gain influence in the Middle East.

Dunlap Unveils First 'Global' ABMS Exercise The F-35, the F-22, "even a KC-46 tanker" and ground assets will be able to share data in fiscal 2022, Dunlap says. Later in the year, the Air Force will take a KC-46 tanker, and put that same communications capability on it so forces can "move data in a much wider bandwidth to many more forces.

Aerospace Cos Wary Of Digital Design Revolution "With a flattening budget topline (at best) and many competing Air Force investment priorities, it's not at all clear that this program will continue. We might just be left with a museum-ready prototype," Teal Group's Richard Aboulafia says.

SAC Fears Nuclear 'Strategic Communications Gap' "Things never go as planned," cautions Rick Ambrose, Lockheed Martin's executive VP for space.

Senate Appropriators Cut R&D To Buy More Weapons The Senate Appropriations Committee proposal adds $2.4 billion to procure more weapons ASAP – especially F-35s – and cuts longer-range R&D by $2.1 billion.

Israel Launches Iran Command; Talks With Biden Team Planned TEL AVIV: While Israel anxiously awaits a Biden Administration, it has made operational a new command focused entirely on Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Naetanyahu is repeating — again and again — his intention to stop Iran from achieving a nuclear capability: "Israel will not allow Iran to have the bomb." The IDF says that the…

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Gen. Raymond Targets Combat-Ready Space Force "While we will extend and defend America's competitive advantage in peacetime, the ultimate measure of our readiness is the ability to prevail should war initiate in, or extend to space," the new Chief of Space Operations (CSO) Planning Guidance says.

Army Picks Tomahawk & SM-6 For Mid-Range Missiles Lockheed Martin won a $339 million contract today to integrate two Raytheon-made missiles, now used by the Navy, into a truck-mounted artillery battery by 2023.

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