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USAF recommits to E-7 Wedgetail: $1.5B for airborne command

The United States Air Force is making one of its most crucial strategic investments in decades, committing $1.5 billion to ...
Aviation Week

USAF To Retake Airborne Nuclear Command Mission From U.S. Navy

AURORA, Colorado—The U.S. Air Force will in the coming months finalize requirements for how it will take on the airborne nuclear command post mission as the U.S. Navy offloads it from its Take Charge ...
The Aviationist

RAF Typhoons and Voyager Tanker Join U.S. Air Force’s B-52H Stratofortress Over Arabian Peninsula in BTF Mission

The flight consisted of two B-52Hs, two RAF Typhoon FGR4s and one Voyager aerial refueling aircraft. The bombers are involved in their first deployment in the Middle East since 2019, launched to deter ...
War on the Rocks

The U.S. Army, Artificial Intelligence, and Mission Command

It is 2028. An infantry company, acting as an advanced guard, maneuvers to support an attack in the Indo-Pacific. Each platoon consists of manned-unmanned squad teams using autonomous ground vehicles ...