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4 days ago | 
defensedaily.com | Frank Wolfe
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), said that U.S. adversaries may target the nation's bases domestically and abroad with attack drones, hidden in and launched from vehicles, as seen recently in Ukrainian and Israeli...
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4 days ago | 
defensedaily.com | Frank Wolfe
The U.S. Air Force may need a significant increase in its drone force to help defend Europe, if Russia tries to invade Eastern European nations beyond Ukraine. Dedicated close air support (CAS) has been low on the list of Air Force modernization priorities,...
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4 days ago | 
defensedaily.com | Frank Wolfe
The U.S. Space Force Space Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) in Albuquerque, N.M., is hoping to get a budget commitment in fiscal 2026 for 12 Satellite Communications Augmentation Resource (SCAR) antennas.
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5 days ago | 
defensedaily.com | Frank Wolfe
The Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Aerospace Systems Directorate at Edwards AFB, Calif., wants to gauge the breadth of innovation for future missile propulsion under AFRL's Rocket Lab Hermes project, which may award contracts up to $250 million...
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1 week ago | 
defensedaily.com | Frank Wolfe
Building each U.S. Space Force Counter Communications System (CCS) 10.3 Meadowlands takes a year or two for L3Harris Technologies [LHX] at its Palm Bay, Fla., plant, and several such systems are in the works at any one time, as the company explores foreign military...
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1 week ago | 
defensedaily.com | Frank Wolfe
BARKSDALE AFB, La.-Every 450 flight hours, or two years, an early 1960s U.S. Air Force B-52H bomber by Boeing [BA] will come here for 23 days of phased, "bumper to bumper" inspection and maintenance with the 580 personnel of the 2nd Maintenance...
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1 week ago | 
defensedaily.com | Frank Wolfe
BARKSDALE AFB, La. -As the United States and Iran remain at loggerheads over the Iranian nuclear program, satellite photos this week have shown four B-52H bombers at the U.S.-U.K. base on the island of Diego Garcia, which could serve as a jumping off point for U.S. bombers. Air Force officials decline to say whether the aircraft are from the 2nd Bomb wing based here.
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1 week ago | 
defensedaily.com | Frank Wolfe
BARKSDALE AFB, La.-The U.S. Air Force's 2nd Bomb Wing here is to be the lead wing for acceptance of the RTX [RTX] AGM-181 Long Range Standoff (LRSO) nuclear cruise missile, which eventually will fly aboard the B-21 Raider stealth bomber that Northrop Grumman [NOC] is building. The early 1960s Boeing [BA] B-52Hs with the wing will be the first to carry LRSO. "In many ways, we get to be the wing that writes the book on how we really employ this [LRSO] as a weapons system," said Air Force Col.
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1 week ago | 
defensedaily.com | Frank Wolfe
BARKSDALE AFB, La.-Introduced in 2009 and first fielded in 2014, the Boeing [BA] Combat Network Communications Technology (CONECT) upgrade for the B-52H has been to replace old displays and communications on the early 1960s bomber with such features as a...
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1 week ago | 
defensedaily.com | Frank Wolfe
BARKSDALE AFB, La.-Tail number 60-041 exited its parking spot, "Whiskey 2," early afternoon on Tuesday for a planned five-hour flight to allow crew from the 93rd Bomb Squadron and 11th Bomb Squadron to polish their skills on the B-52H-this...
