Tag: USAF

The Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress was the blunt-force instrument of the Allied daylight strategic bombing campaign over Europe. Tasked with ...

The United States Navy has officially awarded Boeing a development contract valued at over $20 billion for the full-scale engineering ...

KEY INTELLIGENCE Airframe Relocation: Tail number 844, the final SR-71 constructed and last to fly on October 9, 1999 (Mach ...

BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT Advanced Fire Control: The Sperry K-4 automatic computing gunsight calculated gravity, wind speed, aircraft velocity, and ...

KEY INTELLIGENCE The AGM-181A LRSO replaces the AGM-86B, a system that originally entered active service in 1982. Raytheon leads missile ...

KEY INTELLIGENCE Unmanned systems suffered catastrophic attrition, with 47 MQ-9 Reapers and one MQ-4C Triton lost to enemy fire and ...

BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT The Gun With a Plane: The 3,900-pound GAU-8/A cannon accounts for 20% of the aircraft's empty ...

Increment 1 Context: The USAF currently has two drone fighters entering active production: the FQ-44A Fury and the FQ-42A Vengeance. ...

KEY INTELLIGENCE Severe Fleet Attrition: Iranian and proxy forces have destroyed over 58 MQ-9 Reapers in two years, eliminating more ...

KEY INTELLIGENCE The airframe supports an unprecedented 29,500 lbs of munitions distributed across 23 weapon hardpoints. Twin F110-GE-129 turbofans generate ...