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How the sixth-generation fighter jet will upend air warfare
Jul 19, 2024 · Hinote and Heather Penney, a retired F-16 pilot and senior resident fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, said speed, stealth and range will be among the most crucial elements of ...
Here are the two companies creating drone wingmen for the US …
Apr 24, 2024 · The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday announced it selected Anduril and General Atomics to keep designing, building and testing its first batch of drone wingmen known as collaborative combat aircraft ...
The robots are coming: US Army experiments with human …
Mar 25, 2024 · U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Stetson Manuel assembles the Ghost-X drone during the human-machine integration experiment for Project Convergence in Fort Irwin, Calif., on March 11, 2024.
Defense bill for 2025 would delay F-35 deliveries
Dec 10, 2024 · The proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2025, which lawmakers released Saturday would allow the Air Force to buy and accept delivery of 30 F-35As.
Sierra Nevada wins $13B contract to build Air Force ‘doomsday …
Apr 26, 2024 · An Air Force E-4B Nightwatch sits on the tarmac on March 26, 2022 at Lincoln Airport in Nebraska. Sierra Nevada Corp. won a $13 billion contract from the Air Force to build the Survivable Airborne ...
What a second Trump presidency could mean for the defense …
Nov 7, 2024 · Republican aides in Congress, when asked by Defense News, signaled confidence that a second Trump term would increase the military budget, though cautioning that it’s still too early to predict.
From CamoGPT to life skills, the Army is changing how it trains …
Oct 16, 2024 · Army Times spoke with Gen. Gary Brito, head of Training and Doctrine Command, about some of these areas and what they mean for new and career soldiers.Brito took over his current command in 2022 ...
Comparing Russian, Ukrainian forces two years into war - Defense …
Feb 23, 2024 · Military operations in Ukraine have cost Russia up to $211 billion, and the country has lost $10 billion in canceled or paused arms sales, according to the Pentagon.At least 20 medium to large ...
Defense tech firms establish AI-focused consortium
Dec 6, 2024 · Anduril, meanwhile, is providing hardware and software for the Pentagon’s Replicator initiative, which aims to field thousands of small, networked drones by next August.. For this new ...