Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare

The latest Air Warfare news and analysis from Breaking Defense.

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Weekly Briefing Air Warfare

Uncover What It Will Take To Empower Overmatch For Future Vertical Lift

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From complex weight and drag challenges to mission-flexible open systems, we have the innovation and expertise to bring Future Vertical Lift to life.

Israel Seeks US Help On Lasers After years of favoring missiles, Israel is back in the laser business, with Rafael developing a ground-based 100-kW-class weapon and Elbit an airborne one.

What's In A Name? Billions In Cuts Depend On Defining 'Legacy' As defense budgets face post-COVID cuts, everyone wants to axe "legacy" systems. But the services define "legacy" very differently from defense reformers.

Pacific Commander Warns China Likely To Move On Taiwan; Guam A Target Taiwan may be targeted for annexation by 2027, Adm. Phil Davidson said, and Guam will have to be vigorously defended in a Pacific War.

Could Ukrainian Firm Solve China's Jet-Engine Problem? China has long relied on Russian imports to power its jet aircraft. Now a Chinese bid for a Ukrainian engine maker could change that – with dire results for US air superiority.

Building A Smarter ISR Aircraft [Sponsored] ISTAR will operate faster, longer and higher than other platforms.

Lockheed Buying Aerojet Is Bad For Defense If aerospace titan Lockheed Martin gets to merge with the nation's last provider of solid rocket motors, Aerojet Rocketdyne, it will do irreparable harm, argues retired Rear Adm. Don Loren in this op-ed.

AFRL's Golden Horde To Test Swarming Munitions In Digital 'Colosseum' The new simulation environment will use 'digital twins' to rapidly test and iterate "collaborative autonomous networked technologies," AFRL explains.

HASC Chair Slams F-35, 500-Ship Fleet; Highlights Cyber "What does the F-35 give us? Is there a way to cut our losses?" asked Rep. Adam Smith, who wants a mixed force of different types of fighters: "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

No 'New Cold War' As US Bombers Move Into Norwegian Base "I guess if someone were to take a message [from the basing agreement]  it's that we're not restricted to one particular location," said Gen. Steven Basham, deputy commander of Air Forces in Europe/Africa.

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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