DefenseNews.com
• Michael Scanlon
The U.S. Air Force is pivoting toward cruise missiles it can procure in very large quantities. The goal is to use lower unit-cost weapons to enable multi-shot effects—potentially firing many missiles for less than the service previously paid to shoot a single weapon.
Breaking Defense
• Michael Marrow
By Breaking Defense: “It wasn’t just an AMRAAM that came off,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach told Breaking Defense. “It was tracking the target.”.
FlightGlobal
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — Gen. Chance Saltzman in his final public address as chief of the U.S. Space Force warned that a conflict extending into orbit would expose the satellites of every nation, arguing that the best way to deter such a war is to build military forces capable of fighting and prevailing in space.
Aviation Week
Air & Space Forces Mag
Breaking Defense
• David Deptula
By Breaking Defense: In which David A. Deptula, dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, takes issue with a recent op ed in Breaking Defense concerning the "air littoral" in the Iran conflict.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — Slingshot Aerospace has won a $69.2 million U.S. Space Force contract to develop artificial intelligence-based training environments that will allow military operators to rehearse satellite defense missions and respond to simulated adversary actions in orbit.
FlightGlobal
• Craig Hoyle
By FlightGlobal: Initial purchase of 12 conventional take-off jets will support operational conversion unit, service says. The UK Royal Air Force (RAF) is working to determine its future fleet requirement for the Lockheed Martin F-35A, as the service works toward regaining an air-launched nuclear weapons capability from next decade.
DefenseNews.com
• Military Times staff
By DefenseNews.com: Experts say Beijing used both methods to try out new, attention-grabbing and long-term ways to deter others from challenging its territorial claims.
Breaking Defense
• Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo
By Breaking Defense: During his time at MBDA, Éric Béranger oversaw the firm’s major industrial ramp-up.
DefenseNews.com
Reuters
• Alexander Dziadosz, David Lewis, Reade Levinson
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
