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.

FVL: Don't Pick The Tiltrotor, V-22 Test Pilot Tells Army In the competition for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft, high agility and low life-cycle costs matter most, a former Marine tiltrotor test pilot argues.

Army Briefs Industry On Future Air & Ground Standards "Modular open systems architecture… is the foundation of all our future modernization," said Brig. Gen. Glenn Dean. The Bradley replacement, OMFV, will be the test case.

F-15EX To Fly In Indo-PACOM's Northern Edge During the exercise, the F-15EX will test the Eagle Passive Active Warning Survivability System (EPAWSS) EW suite, Lt. Gen. David Krumm says.

New Kessel Run Software For Speedy Targeting Gets ACC OK Eventually, the new KRADOS system will completely replace the legacy Theater Battle Management Core Systems — the service's decades-old air tasking order system — at the some two dozen Air Operations Centers (AOC) around the world.

Army Artillery's AI Gets Live-Fire Exercises In Europe, Pacific "We have data collection managers onsite, with stopwatches, [timing] how long does it take the data to get… from Point A to Point B to C," said Army APNT director Willie Nelson.

DoD Estimates New Missile Defense Program To Cost $17.7B NGI kicked off in 2019 after the cancellation of an earlier $5.8 billion plan to replace the existing Exo-Atmospheric Kill Vehicle, which defends the US mainland against long-range ballistic missile attacks.

Russian Fleet Protects Iranian Ships Smuggling Arms, Israelis Say TEL AVIV: Amid confused reports of a drone attack on an Iranian ship in the Mediterranean on its way to Syria, Iran appears to have moved its weapons shipments to Syria and Lebanon from the land — where Israel has regularly tracked and destroyed them — to ships that may be receiving protection from Russian…

SecAF Nominee Kendall Expected To Deep Dive On Space Acquisition UPDATED: To add comment from former SecAF Heather Wilson and HASC Chair Adam Smith. WASHINGTON: Frank Kendall has a reputation as a tough nut — having wrestled to the ground any number of messy DoD programs when he led the Obama Pentagon's acquisition shop —  including the troubled OCX operating system for GPS, and the…

Nine Critical Weight And Drag Optimization Opportunities For Future Vertical Lift Platforms [Sponsored] The technological advancements are at our fingertips – and ready now – to help design the fastest, lightest, most long-range and powerful rotorcraft in history, and weight and drag optimization is a critical success factor.

DoD Weighs More 'Organic' F-35 Maintenance; Bartering With Lockheed "We've always been bullish on the program's prospects, but admit we're more worried than we have been in a long time," wrote Roman Schweizer of Cowen Washington Research Group.

Top Priority: Marines Want New Loitering Drones The drones would be part of a new multi-domain Mobile Reconnaissance unit that includes unmanned ships and new ground vehicles

Army Fields First Anti-Aircraft Strykers In Just 3 Years The threat of Russian drones, helicopters, and attack jets drove the first fielding to a unit in Germany, but the 8×8 Stryker variant may well find its way to the Pacific as well.

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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