"Aerial refueling capacity has historically been a major constraint on the tempo of operations, and it’s likely the case today," Tim Walton, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, told Breaking Defense.
Discussing Israel’s protections for civilians in its bombing campaign of Gaza, Air Force Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich said that after observing an Israeli strike cell in late 2023, Jerusalem's forces were “making a bona fide effort to adhere to the law of armed conflict.”
Midsized companies can offer flexibility and agility while keeping intellectual property in the hands of the government.
“Do we share data into a central hub where it becomes anonymous, where you don't know where the source came from, but then you trust the output?” asked AFCENT Deputy Commander Brig. Gen. David Mineau.
Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich said the Pentagon’s new Replicator initiative can help scale up a small innovation team known as Task Force 99, as well as present new opportunities to explore changes in production, training and doctrine.
The Pentagon has changed how it tracks items in American airspace, increasing the number of objects it sees.
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.
Partnerships with outside industry are a cornerstone of the kingdom’s ambitious growth strategy.
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"Right now space is a supporting element to a geographic [component command] ... but that paradigm is going to flip over time, where the supported command -- the primacy, where the actions will happen first -- is going to be space," says Lt. Gen. Joseph Guastella, head of Air Force Central Command.
"The training we have given them we know has paid off," Mattis said of the Saudis. "We have had pilots in the air who recognize the danger of a specific mission and declined to drop even when they get the authority. We have seen staff procedures that put no-fire areas around areas where there’s hospitals or schools."
CORRECTED strikes per day figure WASHINGTON: The air war against the Islamic State is not “anemic,” a Central Command spokesman told Breaking Defense, rebutting a critique of the campaign we published last week. To say the rate of airstrikes in Syria and Iraq is less than against Iraq in 1991 and 2003, Serbia and Kosovo in […]
On today’s battlefield, mobility isn’t optional - it’s mission-critical.