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November 19, 2020

Space Command headquarters will be in one of these six states, Air Force announces

The Department of the Air Force has announced the six candidate locations being considered for the headquarters of the U.S. Space Command.

November 18, 2020

Pentagon pursues 'hack proof' fighter jets and armored war vehicles

What if an armored combat vehicle was rapidly moving to enemy contact through rigorous terrain while facing enemy fire, when its navigational and targeting systems were suddenly given false, wrong or misleading information ... thus derailing the mission?

November 12, 2020

Could the Air Force X-37B become a laser and missile-firing space drone?

Is the Air Force X-37B an armed space drone operating beyond the Earth’s atmosphere to destroy enemy satellites, ICBMs or aircraft of some kind?

November 6, 2020

New Air Force 6th-Gen aircraft takes flight with F-35

The fact that the Air Force’s new 6th-Gen aircraft has taken to the skies raises many interesting questions

October 13, 2020

New navigation technology helps F-22 sharpen angles of attack

The success of high-speed air-to-air combat engagement accelerated flight into enemy fire against air-defenses, aerial surveillance missions, and precision-strikes on enemy ground targets of course rest upon a pilot’s ability to know a plane’s exact location, movement patterns and angle of attack.

October 5, 2020

F-35 sends targets to ground soldiers and army soldiers send targets up to F-35s

An advancing infantry unit breaks through a thick wall of enemy fighters when suddenly, while under heavy fire, soldiers on the ground receive incoming targeting data from an overhead F-35 showing that their unit will soon encounter a massive, mechanized force of enemy armored vehicles.

October 4, 2020

New high-speed Army satellites accelerate attacks on enemy tanks

When an Air Force fighter jet or bomber closes in on a high-value target area, poised for attack, or an Army ground unit moves to contact with an enemy, success or failure of a given high-risk mission can often hang in the balance of what can be described in two words – satellite networking.

September 24, 2020

F-35 and F-22 fighter jets might be able to share data while keeping 'stealth attack' mode

If an F-22 and F-35 were both operating in full stealth attack mode behind enemy lines, striking air defenses, searching for targets and preparing the airspace for a less-stealthy air campaign, then how do the undetectable fifth-generation fighter jets communicate with each other without generating a potentially detectable electrical signal, giving away their position?  

September 22, 2020

Air Force flies 6th-gen stealth fighter – 'super fast' with digital engineering

It is a huge development. It could even be called somewhat shocking. The U.S. Air Force has already built and flown a new, sixth-generation stealth fighter jet.

September 22, 2020

6th-gen takes to the air: The fastest, stealthiest, most lethal aircraft ever?

Now that the Air Force has officially announced that it has built and flown a new sixth-generation fighter jet, many might wonder the following question: Could it be the stealthiest, fastest and most lethal aircraft ever to exist? What if it were built to be as stealthy as a B-21 bomber?