In March 2023, the USAF Secretary revealed the plan to pair at least 1,000 uncrewed CCAs with advanced manned fighters in the near-term future, in his keynote speech titled “One Team, One Fight” at the 2023 Air Force Association Warfare Symposium held in Colorado. How well do you...
Despite these challenges, the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) project and ongoing advancements in hypersonic flight are expected to yield higher levels of performance and potential future applications in advanced weapon systems, including air combat systems. The Department of Defense’s inv...
It took over fifty concept designs before they found a suitable improvement. The aircraft itself no longer resembled the F-89D Scorpion it got its name from, but the name would stick until the end of the project. This new design was submitted in August of 1954. The N-126 was now much...
The curious $13 million infusion of cash into the ARRW program comes amid continued questions about its future. Joseph Trevithick Bolt-M Aims To Make Kamikaze Drone Attacks More User Friendly, Effective In the next six months the U.S. Marine Corps will start testing the advanced quadcopter loi...
(Image credit: U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin artist's concept) WASHINGTON — NOAA satellite operators unexpectedly lost the ability to command one of the Air Force's primary weather satellites on Feb. 11 and now officials from both organizations are racing to determine if the spacecraft can...
future. By this time, the weight of the XB-19 was increasing excessively, resulting in an expectation of a progressively poorer and poorer performance with the engines specified. During the previous three years the advances in the state of the art had been so rapid that the basic B-19 ...