To meet the program’s delayed production decision, set for February 2025, the T-7A will need to qualify its escape system and finish its flight control software, though officials expressed confidence the jet could achieve the goal.
By Michael MarrowGen. Mark Kelly, who heads the Air Force’s Air Combat Command, said that the US’s shrinking and aging aircraft fleet has emboldened Russian and Chinese pilots to seek “batting practice.”
By Michael Marrow“Every day, [the T-38] becomes just another step more disconnected from the advanced avionics, advanced sensing, the advanced processing that our modern fighters have. And so we can’t fill that void fast enough,” said Air Combat Command head Gen. Mark Kelly.
By Valerie InsinnaThe agreement will pave the way for closer collaboration between Kessel Run and Air Combat Command, officials said.
By Valerie InsinnaThe US Air Force is one step closer to having a new aircraft for jamming enemy communications.
By Valerie Insinna“All of the services are pursuing new long-range strike capabilities today, kind of like little kids chasing a soccer ball, and someone needs to ask which investments will maximize our nation’s long-range strike warfighting potential,” said Mitchell Institute’s Mark Gunzinger.
By Theresa Hitchens“Our ability to get out from underneath our infrastructure is probably our biggest challenge,” Lt. Gen. Tim Haugh, head of 16th Air Force, says.
By Theresa HitchensThe technologies that allowed a tracked howitzer to shoot down a cruise missile in the Sept. 3 ABMS On Ramp was “a Sputnik or Alpha-Go moment where AI did something that could not have been done otherwise,” says Will Roper.
By Theresa HitchensInstead of sending individual squadrons to the Middle East, the newly created 15th Air Force wants to train entire wings together for rapid deployment against Russia, China and other “near peers.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.“We absorb more data that we can process, that’s just a non-negotiable fact,” says Gen. Mark Kelly.
By Theresa Hitchens“Before AI can find its place, really, in the cockpit in a formation, it kind of has to earn its wings first,” DARPA Deputy Director David Honey says.
By Theresa Hitchens