“How in the hell do you lose an F-35?”
By Michael MarrowEnterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
While over 900 F-35s have been produced, the program has technically been stuck in its initial operational testing phase for years over the delayed completion of the trials.
By Michael Marrow
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 Marrow
“I’d go so far as say if you drive north of the National Cathedral on Connecticut Avenue, that popping sound you hear is not stray gunfire. It is champagne corks at the Chinese embassy bouncing off the walls,” Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly said.
By Michael Marrow
Gen. 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
America’s Chinese “frenemies” are “not having a debate over the relevance of six-gen air dominance. And I can also tell you they’re on track,” said Air Combat Command head Gen. Mark Kelly.
By Valerie Insinna
“The computer models would have said Russia wins in 72 to 96 hours,” said Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger. They “cannot explain why Ukraine is still hanging on. Why is that?”
By Valerie Insinna
GA-ASI’s MQ-9B: The right UAV for persistence, power, and performance
When assessing the state of the art of unmanned aerial systems, it’s critical to be very clear about what various aircraft can and can’t do – and could never do.
“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 Insinna
The 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 Hitchens
“We absorb more data that we can process, that’s just a non-negotiable fact,” says Gen. Mark Kelly.
By Theresa Hitchens
