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Air Force mulls ‘maybe’ pulling B-52s from retirement

A program to upgrade the radar for the Eisenhower-era bomber suffered a tragic setback after a fatal crash in California.

Air Force reopens F-16 ejection seat deal, setting up contest between Collins, Martin-Baker

While the Air Force will originally focus on a competition to place new ejection seats in the service's F-16 fleet, “decisions following the competition could extend to other platforms, including the F-22 and B-1," the Air Force said.

Bombers Best Bet For Aussie Deterrence Of China

“I think long-range strike is about trying to keep stability in a crisis situation. And if you're going to use it as a deterrence," former Air Marshal Geoff Brown says. "It's got to be responsive, it's got to be potent, but you've also got to be able to signal that you can use it."

Canada’s CAE Expands US Presence; Buys $1B L3Harris Training

For L3Harris, the sale helps it reach its stated goal of divesting 8 to 10 percent of revenue as part an overarching effort to reshape its business portfolio.

US Air Power: The Imperative For Modernization (Buy The F-35)

In 2006, a relatively obscure book caused a major stir among the U.S. Air Force leadership. Why Air Forces Fail, edited by Robin Higham and Stephen J. Harris, lays out the determinants of failure: deficiencies in the industrial base, misguided technology and tactical picks, inattention to logistics and neglect of training. The case studies are broken […]

Up the Buy ASAP: Fixing American Airpower

Double the buy rate on F-35A starting in 2020 and plan on a minimum of 200 B-21 bombers built in rapid fashion. That will begin to get to the Air Force that America needs to meets the challenges of the future.

HASC Seapower Chair Wittman Presses For Hypersonic Focus

  For years, the Pentagon has dreamed and worked to build what it has called Prompt Global Strike, The idea is simple: to build a hypersonic weapon that can destroy targets anywhere on earth within an hour of getting targeting data and permission to launch. The technology and the physics are not simple; nor are they cheap. […]

AF Budget: JSTARS Recap Finally Killed; B1, B-2 Bombers Will Be Too

PENTAGON: The Air Force was eclipsed as the biggest budget winner this year, partially because of its decision to begin shifting from current weapons to new ones. The Army, which has greatly increased its commitment to land weapons, increased 14.9 percent and the Air Force is up 14.1 percent. Meanwhile the Navy Department — which includes […]

10 Reasons The US Should Build New Nuclear Missiles, GBSD

CORRECTED: Minuteman Was First Solid-Fueled ICBM; Jon Wolfsthal’s name The first solid-fueled InterContinental Ballistic Missile, Minuteman 1, was deployed some 55 years ago on the same day that President Kennedy announced that Soviet missiles were being deployed in Cuba. At the end of the Cuban missile crisis, President Kennedy credited the newly deployed Minuteman ICBM as his “ace […]

Boost The US Bomber Force: Dollars vs. Operational Needs

The United States Air Force should consider shifting its balance of its strike forces from fighters to long-range bombers. At the end of the Cold War, the Air Force’s combat aircraft inventory included 411 bombers. Today, it has a total of 158 B-1, B-52, and B-2 bombers, of which only 96 are designated as Primary […]