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COPE NORTH 2016 Concludes In Pacific

Editor’s Note: Although Exercise COPE NORTH 2016 just concluded, this will give you an idea of the DLOs (designated learning objectives) for the nations participating, as well as the large View More ›

Gunfighters Participate In Combined WSEP

Editor’s Note: We have good friends who are “Gunfighters,” assigned to the 366th Fighter Wing, whose home station is Mountain Home Air Force Base south of Boise, Idaho. As we View More ›

Boeing and Lockheed Withdraw B-21 Challenge

Editor’s Note: When Northrop-Grumman won the original award of the U.S. Air Force’s Long Range Strike-Bomber (LRS-B, now known as the B-21) contract, the competing team of Boeing and Lockheed-Martin View More ›

U.S. Army Reconnaissance Aircraft Crashes In Iraq

Editor’s Note: The MC-12S-2, better known as the EMARSS-M, is a manned multi-intelligence airborne intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance (AISR) system that provides a persistent capability to detect, locate, classify/identify, and View More ›

AFRL: Hypersonic Missiles To Be Reality In 2020s

Editor’s Note: The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has been developing new tech for the United States Air Force. Since the X-15 program concluded, not much has been (publicly) done View More ›

OSAN AB: Buddy Wing 16-2 Gets Underway

Editor’s Note: More good things happening on the Korean Peninsula. Our friends at the 51st Fighter Wing are still building strong relationships with their RoKAF counterparts. As we previously reported, View More ›

Eielson AFB: One Step Closer To Fielding F-35s By 2019

Editor’s Note: As we previously reported, one of the bed-down locations for the Air Force’s brand-new Joint Strike Fighter is at Eielson Air Force Base, just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. View More ›

DARPA: Electronic Warfare Solutions Based On AI?

Editor’s Note: DARPA is addressing the issue of emerging radar technology with something they refer to as “cognitive electronic warfare.” Short version? Artificial Intelligence. It’s about recognizing the character traits View More ›

Extended Range MQ-9 Reaper Takes Flight!

Editor’s Note: The U.S. Air Force’s most sought-after Remotely-Piloted Aircraft (RPA) in recent years has been the MQ-9 Reaper. The airframe has been an absolute workhouse, and the operators have View More ›

Senator John McCain Challenges CSAF On A-10

Editor’s Note: There’s not a whole lot to say this one. What are the facts? The A-10 is indeed the most effective Close Air Support aircraft on the face of View More ›

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