Air Force Touts B-1B Bomber’s Potential To Carry Huge Hypersonic Missiles And External Stores
The B-1B may have to fight for its life in the not so distant future, but new upgrades could give it the ammo it needs to survive the budget ax.
The B-1B may have to fight for its life in the not so distant future, but new upgrades could give it the ammo it needs to survive the budget ax.
We can talk about super-duper Tomcats, hypersonic rocket sleds, geopolitics, air-to-air missile-armed stealth bombers—you know, no big whoop.
The seemingly obvious course of action is to "reveal" the long-range ground-launched cruise missiles it has now, but Russia may need to wait to do so.
The site's main job is to support various underwater test and evaluation tasks, including measuring how quiet Navy submarines are.
The Air Force's vision of the future of aerial combat has evolved greatly as of late and has moved away from plans for new, costly manned fighters.
The Air Force had planned to award contracts for the infrastructure improvements, including a specialized repair facility, next year.
The bold vision of a USMC that is far less dependent on the lumbering "Gator Navy" comes with a sacrificial offering of the force's most sacred cow.
The two companies are vying for a Polish contract, but could also find success on the export market.
The Navy is still funding work on a new rocket motor and other features that could fundamentally change the character of this "dogfighting" missile.
This follows the acquisition of two mobile radars from Ukraine in the past year, including one associated with the S-300.
We can talk about electronic warfare systems, mothballed F-117s, geopolitics, the cost of shipping U-2 chase cars—you know, no big whoop.
The disclosure of this type of high-resolution imagery on the fly via social media is unprecedented.
Three B-2s are in the United Kingdom to take part in various training exercises including these first-of-their-kind sorties with foreign F-35s.
Another unidentified aircraft also flew a mysterious orbit in the southern end of the Strait shortly after the MC-130J left the area.
Although the idea of an independent Space Force has made headlines for years now, Space Command isn't new. Even its flag hearkens back to the 1980s.
The service has bought hundreds of vehicles, based on a design special operators have used for years, to meet these same requirements.
We finally have an official accounting of the F-117s, nearly all of which remain at Tonopah, but that is still set to change over the coming years.
Certain portions of the concept seem far-fetched, but there may be a role for the less ambitious parts of the system.
Turkey is in the market for a new advanced fighter after getting locked out of the F-35 program over its purchase of the S-400 air defense system.
The Air Force says it might just source chase cars there if it can't cut through various red tape to fly them. Why isn't it doing that already?