Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare

The latest Air Warfare news and analysis from Breaking Defense.

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Weekly Briefing Air Warfare

Rolls-Royce F130 Engine: American-Made Power for B-52

Presented by Rolls-Royce

Our F130 engine brings a reliable and combat-proven engine to the B-52 engine replacement program. With 25M+ flight hours in the engine family, the F130 is already a part of the U.S. Air Force Fleet.

HASC Dems Put DoD On Notice: No Free Pass For F-35 "If this program continues to fail … we may need to invest in other more affordable programs, and backfill an operational shortfall of potentially over 800 tactical fighters," said Rep. Donald Norcross, chair of the HASC tactical air and land forces subcommittee.

B-21 A Good News Story; DoD Acquisition 'Getting Better:' HASC Chair Rep. Adam Smith, who's excoriated the F-35, said the B-21 bomber is "on time, on budget, and they're making it work in a very intelligent way."

STRATCOM Head Tells Hill He's 'Confident' In NC3 Cybersecurity "If you try to life-extend a weapon system that was built before the invention of the Internet, and then turn around and ask me why it's not cyber-secure — I don't know how," Adm. Charles Richard told SASC today.

Next DoD Counter-Drone Demo May Expand Kill Options "I think it's September you'll see us open up up the aperture, looking at other capabilities besides low collateral effects," said Stan Darbro, Army RCCTO deputy.

Enabling Connectivity In Air Force Hangars, Bunkers And Flight Lines [Sponsored] When it comes to mission readiness, maintaining electronic workflows through secure and reliable connectivity is essential.

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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