No matter how well prepared a military is, it’s never easy to shift direction rapidly to respond to new threats. One U.S. Air Force briefing suggests Pentagon’s rush to counter ISIS in Iraq and Syria sent the service scrambling to find the right mix of tactics and weapons, with nearly 20 percent...
WASHINGTON — A monumental intercept test for the United States’ critical homeland defense system designed to defend against intercontinental ballistic missile threats from North Korea and Iran was a success, the Missile Defense Agency announced Tuesday shortly after the test.
As North Korea’s...
WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin has proposed doing additional maintenance work on F-22s in the hopes of lengthening the life of the fighter’s low observable coating.
Under the current contract, Lockheed is charged with refurbishing the low observable (LO) coating on the inlets of 10 F-22s per...
The Air Force may be facing significant delays in replacing its aging fleet of EC-130H jamming planes. As the service tries to replace the specialized aircraft, which have been especially valuable in fighting ISIS terrorists, formal protests against its plans are mounting.
On May 25, 2017...
Citing how substantially different the newest F-15 Eagle and F/A-18 Super Hornet offerings are from their predecessors among other reasons, Boeing is looking for new names for both of its iconic fighter jet product lines.
The latest Super Hornet derivatives have had multiple names over the...
WASHINGTON — In an expected decision, Boeing and Saab announced on Monday plans to assemble their offering for the Air Force’s T-X training program in St. Louis, the location of Boeing’s F-15 and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet production lines.
But while the announcement clears up where the aircraft is...
The US Air Force (USAF) has added the GPS-guided GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) to its current inventory of air-launched weapons (GBU-12 Paveway II, AGM-114 Hellfire) for the MQ-Reaper remotely piloted aircraft system (RPAS). For the first time in combat operations, an MQ-9 operated...