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Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare

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DARPA's aerial turducken, the LongShot, still cooking towards 2022 milestone Preliminary designs reviews for the mothership drone, to be launched from an aircraft before firing its own missiles, are planned for mid-2022.

Saab's CEO wants a shot at an AWACS replacement competition "Of course, I would like to be part of an open competition when it comes to airborne early warning and surveillance," Saab CEO Micael Johansson said. "But whether that's possible or not in the US, I don't know."

China eyes MidEast market with upgraded L-15 attack trainer in Dubai Though the Middle East is a major market with enormous potential for China, they've yet to establish any real foothold in the region.

US Air Force one step closer to turning cargo planes into makeshift bombers Next month, the Air Force will see if it can launch a live cruise missile from a pallet that was air dropped by a cargo plane.

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Navy SCOUTing for new tech to catch drug traffickers The Navy is briefing industry today on proposals for a new technology demonstration planned for next summer dubbed SCOUT.

'Almost a melding' of US, UK, Aussie services coming: NSC's Kurt Campbell The context for President Biden's almost four-hour discussion Monday night with President Xi Jinpeng, Kurt Campbell said, is "that the United States is here to stay in the Indo-Pacific, and we're going to defend and support the operating system that has been so good for so many of us for many years."

Navy finds fix for 'unacceptable' LCS issue; taxpayers likely to cover half of costs The Navy has fixed one ship, but doesn't know how long it'll take to get the full LCS fleet to top speed.

Navy assessing LA sub fleet for possible life extensions The fact the Navy can extend some of its submarine fleet's life by several years is likely due in part to the time some of those boats have sat in docks awaiting maintenance.

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DARPA’s aerial turducken, the LongShot, still cooking towards 2022 milestone

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At Kratos, affordability is a technology directly benefiting the warfighter.

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Kratos is disrupting the status quo by increasing warfighter capability, delivering affordable systems and solutions including unmanned systems, turbine engines, space communications, and training. Learn more.

DARPA's aerial turducken, the LongShot, still cooking towards 2022 milestone Preliminary designs reviews for the mothership drone, to be launched from an aircraft before firing its own missiles, are planned for mid-2022.

Space Force sees AI as 'absolutely essential' for JADC2 Brig. Gen. John Olson said that for JADC2 to work, "artificial intelligence and machine learning are absolutely essential enablers to make us able to react, and respond, and again, make sense of the information, then act upon it."

Italy's Army modernization finally seeing movement after years of delays Italy's budget has been in flux for years, with Army modernization being delayed. A trio of vehicles may be ready to turn that tide.

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Italy's Army modernization finally seeing movement after years of delays Italy's budget has been in flux for years, with Army modernization being delayed. A trio of vehicles may be ready to turn that tide.

Saab's CEO wants a shot at an AWACS replacement competition "Of course, I would like to be part of an open competition when it comes to airborne early warning and surveillance," Saab CEO Micael Johansson said. "But whether that's possible or not in the US, I don't know."

Networks as 'center of gravity': Project Convergence highlights military's new battle with bandwidth In desert experiments, Army races to develop tactics for transferring data — and realizes high-def video can create potentially fatal data bottlenecks.

Robotic vehicles, drones coordinate recon at Army's Project Convergence 21 "It's this idea of collaborative sensing," said Col. Andre' Abadie, referring to one autonomous system talking to another to, say, confirm enemy positions or equipment.

Divining the future of heavy vertical lift in the Army With the Army focused on FLRAA and FARA, the question of heavy lift under the Future Vertical Lift program won't be answered for a decade or more. In the meantime, here's what the Army is thinking.

Hypersonic spy planes and cargo transports? Pentagon is interested You can imagine a reusable system that can fly around and drop payloads and come back, or a hypersonic system that can carry other hypersonic systems," said Gillian Bussey, head of DoD's Joint Hypersonics Transition Office.

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