Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare

The latest Air Warfare news and analysis from Breaking Defense.

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Weekly Briefing Air Warfare

No Compromises: Tiltrotor Mission Effectiveness For Long-Range Air Assault [Sponsored] Bell's V-280 Valor builds upon 600,000 hours of experience with the V-22 tiltrotor with a clean-sheet design to meet the Army's requirement for an air-assault platform.

HASC Seeks Constraints On F-35 Buys, Multi-Year Sustainment Contract Plans In a July report on long-term F-35 costs, the GAO found that the Air Force "needs to reduce estimated annual per-plane costs by $3.7 million (47%) by 2036, or costs in that year alone will be $4.4 billion more than it can afford."

House Panel Rejects Navy's Math On Closing Strike Fighter Gap; Funds New F/A-18s House lawmakers say they are "highly circumspect" of the Navy's analysis for closing the strike fighter shortfall.

Israeli PM To Request Biden Clear Money To Purchase New F-15IAs: Sources UPDATE: Thursday's planned meeting between Biden and Bennett has been postponed following the attacks in Kabul. It is unclear exactly when that meeting will now take place.  TEL AVIV: When Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett meets with US President Joe Biden, he plans to ask the United States for a special increase in Foreign Military…

If Commercial Space Is Ready to Set Sail, Why Are We Still Missing the Boat? Doug Loverro, the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for space policy, lays out a news structure for how the Space Force should look at commercial space assets.

DoD's Technology Imperative: How Industry Is Answering DoD's Call For A Competitive Edge

[Sponsored] Directed energy thermal management, infrared suppression, virtual reality maintenance, and a reusable hypersonic capability are just a few innovations coming out of Rolls-Royce.

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