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Posts Tagged air force
B1s To Get New Upgrades
From Defense Industry Daily:
USAF B-1B Lancers are getting a bunch of upgrades within Sustainment-Block 16 including MIDS LVT-1. This follows earlier hardware and software upgrades done in 2006/07.
First Flight of Boeing Phantom Eye
From Military Times:
Boeing said Monday that the 28-minute flight of the Phantom Eye began at 6:22 a.m. Friday. The aircraft reached an altitude of 4,080 feet and a cruising speed of 62 knots before landing at the California desert base.
From Wired’s Danger Room:
The Phantom Eye’s size means the drone can be loaded up with a whopping 450 lbs. of sensors and cameras — which will come in handy for toting the military’s forthcoming spy gear, like Gorgon Stare, designed to spy on “city-size†areas, or the Army’s ARGUS sensor, which collects the equivalent of 79.8 years of video footage each day. Combine that capacity with a lengthy loiter time, and you’ve got a high-flying spy system that can peek on entire cities for days at a time.
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New Generation of U.S. Military Communication Satellites
Posted by Brian in Comms, Navigation, News, Warriors on 22/May/2012 08:53
The United States military is upgrading its communication satellites with two new programs known as Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) and Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS).
There is a detailed analysis of the new infrastructure at Aero.org.
F-22 Oxygen Problems
According to several sources the F-22 has a serious problem with delivering oxygen to the pilot. Some pilots are refusing to fly the aircraft.
Airforce One Upgrades in Defense Budget
From Military Times:
The two aircraft that serve as Air Force One began flying in 1990 and 1991, respectively, according to a service fact sheet.
The inclusion of a VC-25 replacement in the aviation plan comes at an interesting time, since recapitalization of Air Force One is typically directed by a president in a second term.
MQ-9 UCAV Becoming Hot Export
From Defense Industry Daily:
MQ-9 operators currently include the USA and Britain, who have both used it in hunter-killer mode, and Italy. Other countries are also expressing interest, and international deployments are accelerating.
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Lokheed Completes Final F-22
From Military Times:
The jet is the last of 187 F-22s produced for the Air Force, completing its operational fleet. The F-22 Raptor is designed to carry a variety of weapons, including smart bombs and air-to-air missiles.
The final Raptor will be delivered to the Air Force next year, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Flaws Continue to Plague F-35
Wired’s Danger Room has the coverage on the Joint Strike Fighter and it’s many problems:
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, meant to replace nearly every tactical warplane in the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, was already expected to cost $1 trillion dollars for development, production and maintenance over the next 50 years. Now that cost is expected to grow, owing to 13 different design flaws uncovered in the last two months by a hush-hush panel of five Pentagon experts. It could cost up to a billion dollars to fix the flaws on copies of the jet already in production, to say nothing of those yet to come.
Pentagon’s New China Plan
From The Washington Times:
The plan calls for preparing the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps to defeat China’s “anti-access, area denial weapons,†including anti-satellite weapons, cyberweapons, submarines, stealth aircraft and long-range missiles that can hit aircraft carriers at sea.
Guard and Reserve Need To Maintain Readiness
From the Army Times:
The Defense Department anticipates fewer warzone deployments for guardsmen as deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan slow down, but the skills those troops have learned over a decade at war must stay sharp, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told top National Guard leaders Tuesday.
New Airforce Decoy
From Wired.com:
The Miniature Air-Launched Decoy, or “MALD,†is a cross between a cruise missile and an aerial drone, able to distract or confuse enemy air defenses to protect attacking U.S. jets. It was already on its way to becoming one of America’s most important unsung weapons when this happened: MALD-maker Raytheon figured out a way to “deliver hundreds of MALDs during a single combat sortie,†company vice president Harry Schulte announced in a recent statement.
It is good to see the military continue to think about different methods of attack other than stealth and “smart” bombs.
Revamping the U.S. military’s creaky air fleet on the cheap?
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 16/Jul/2010 17:34
“Every time the Air Force sends a B-1B bomber on a mission over Afghanistan, it spends costs $720,000 in fuel, repair, and other costs. And when the plane comes back, it has to spend 48 hours being repaired for every hour it was in the air. All of which is double-crazy, because the bomber doesn’t really drop bombs over Afghanistan any more, thanks to the military’s airstrike restrictions. The B-1B just lingers over the country with a camera: a big Predator drone, at many, many times the price.”
