Here’s All The Intel You Need On The Ongoing Evacuation Operation In Kabul
The Taliban move to take on the “new Northern Alliance” and the U.S. activates its Civil Reserve Air Fleet to open bottlenecks in the evacuation.
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Here Are The Major Airpower Developments In The Pentagon’s Latest Budget Proposal
The latest Pentagon budget proposal shows the Air Force, as well as Navy and Marines, want to modernize, but at the cost of existing capacity.
Air Force Doubles Down On E-11A BACN Communications Jets With Plans To Triple Fleet Size
The E-11As are in high demand, but there are so few of them, pilots may not have even seen one before jumping into the cockpit of one downrange.
Here Are The Pentagon’s “Tough Choice” Cuts To Airpower As Part Of Its 2021 Budget
The Pentagon has released its latest budget request, covering the 2021 Fiscal year, which includes approximately $705 billion in planned spending. This is $13 billion less than the U.S. military asked for last year, but still relatively close in terms of overall expected funding. Given this drop in funding, senior U.S. military officials have said that they had to make tough choices, especially in the planning for various military aviation programs, which are traditionally big-ticket items in the annual defense budget.
E-11A Pilots Died Flying An Aircraft From A Fleet So Small None Are In The U.S. For Training
All individuals who fly the highly specialized U.S. Air Force E-11A Battlefield Airborne Control Node, or BACN, aircraft volunteer for this job and that there are so few of these planes that they’re all forward-deployed in Afghanistan. This means that aviators have no chance to train on the type in the United States before they head to Kandahar Airfield to begin flying actual operational sorties.
Highly Specialized Air Force E-11A Communications Aircraft Crashes And Burns In Afghanistan (Updated)
Details are still limited, but pictures and video footage circulating on social media shows that a U.S. Air Force E-11A Battlefield Airborne Control Node, or BACN, aircraft has crashed in Afghanistan. The exact circumstances surrounding the incident and the fate of the crew remain unknown.
Air Force Wants Its XQ-58A Valkyrie Drone To Help F-22s And F-35s Talk To Each Other
The U.S. Air Force hopes to begin tests involving a Kratos XQ-58A Valkyrie stealthy unmanned aircraft acting as a data-fusion and relay gateway between its F-22 Raptors and F-35A Joint Strike Fighters early next year. This will follow a separate experiment to first demonstrate that the new data link, known presently as GatewayOne, can enable the two jets to share information without degrading their stealthy signatures, scheduled to occur next month.
We Chew The Fat About BACN With Program Boss And Airman Who Used It In Combat
The high-flying Battlefield Airborne Communications Node is one of the most dynamic but misunderstood systems in the USAF’s inventory.