Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare

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Weekly Briefing Air Warfare

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Likely Base For Second Polish F-35 Squadron Identified WARSAW: During a Sept. 8 speech at the 29th MSPO defense show held at Kielce, Poland, a top Lockheed Martin executive appeared to unintentionally unveil a probable location for the second Polish Air Force F-35A squadron. Officially, a second location for the F-35A unit has yet to be chosen by the government here. But while…

Congress Shouldn't Rubber-Stamp Hypersonic Weapons It is time — in fact, past time — for Congress to demand answers about the Pentagon's pursuit of hypersonic weapons capabilities.

'Global Strike From Space;' Did Kendall Reveal Chinese Threat? WASHINGTON: When Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall used his Sept. 20 keynote speech at the annual Air Force Association conference to claim that China is developing the ability to launch "global strikes from space" against US targets, it raised more than a few eyebrows and sent military analysts scrambling. After all, the decision to bring up…

ABMS: Top Air Force Manager Pleads For Industry Aid "The challenge is taking the data that you want to share — you got to understand it, and how you want to share it — and then write the applications that give you that data quality at the highest level, and compress timelines for those decision makers," said Randy Walden, head of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office.

SASC Adds Six F-35s To FY22 NDAA; Splits With House SASC would transfer authority for F-35 acquisition from the DoD Joint Program Office to the Air Force and Navy no later than Oct. 1, 2027.

DARPA Hypersonic Cruise Missile Prototype Flies At Last The goals of the test were "vehicle integration and release sequence, safe separation from the launch aircraft, booster ignition and boost, booster separation and engine ignition, and cruise," DARPA said today, adding that the "primary test objectives were met."

Rolls-Royce Wins $2.6bn B-52 Engine Contract Rolls-Royce beat out General Electric and Pratt & Whitney, the latter of whom produced the TF33 engines currently used on the B-52.

Dynetics Beats Out Iron Dome For $237M Army Missile Defense Contract Dynetics won a contract to produce the Army's Indirect Fires Protection Capability capability.

Israeli Industry Pushing Jerusalem To Drop MTCR Drone Export Restrictions "We cannot play according to these rules anymore, when everybody else just goes wild," an Israeli industry source said.

Army Completes Second Counter-Small Drone Demonstration Some systems shot the drones, others brought hit them with electronic attacks.

Quad Pushes Chip Supply Security, 5G 'Diversification,' Cybersecurity   WASHINGTON: The first face-to-face meeting between the leaders of the so-called Quad — Australia, India, Japan and the United States — has spawned several initiatives designed to help moderate or crack the hold China has on certain technologies, including semiconductor chips and 5G networks. It also includes a new civil space initiative and an…

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