Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
The U.S. Air Force conducted an early field exercise at Edwards Air Force Base in which operational personnel, not test pilots, took direct control of a Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) prototype. The effort—run by the Experimental Operations Unit (EOU)—aims to validate how the system fits real missions and tactics.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: New space capability is being actively identified by the U.S. Space Force, which is monitoring and managing threats from adversaries while creating missions to defend assets in this country and around the world.
FlightGlobal
• Ryan Finnerty
By FlightGlobal: Dubbed the S-4T, the new design is based on Joby’s all-electric S-4 passenger aircraft, modified with a hybrid-electric propulsion system and an autonomous flight control system.
DefenseNews.com
• Michael Scanlon
By DefenseNews.com: The U.S. Air Force is moving forward with plans to retire the A-10, which for decades has proven ideally suited for combat search-and-rescue operations.
Air & Space Forces Mag
SpaceNews.com
• Debra Werner
By SpaceNews.com: Countering missile threats 'left of launch'.
Aviation Today
• Frank Wolfe
By Aviation Today: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has paused flight testing of the company’s YFQ-42A Dark Merlin prototype drone for the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program after a mishap about […].
Aviation Today
• Frank Wolfe
By Aviation Today: The Air Force is seeking industry feedback on an advanced infrared countermeasures system (AIRCM) that the service could use for its Lockheed Martin HH-60W Jolly Green II combat search and rescue (CSAR) […].
The War Zone
• Joseph Trevithick
By The War Zone: The Army and Bell have pointed to the U.S. Navy's MQ-25 Stingray drone tanker as an example of what could be on the horizon.
The War Zone
