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Sujet: US Air Force - USAF Mer 5 Mar - 10:56
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USAF to issue contract to Sikorsky for rescue helicopter
The US Air Force's combat rescue helicopter programme is moving forward.
The service announces on 4 March that it intends to issue a contract by the end of June to Sikorsky for the 14-year, $7 billion programme, which calls for up to 112 aircraft.
Sikorsky, in partnership with Lockheed Martin, was the only company to bid on the project with its proposed CRH-60, a modified version of its UH-60M Black Hawk.
Rendering of Sikorsky's CRH-60 combat rescue helicopter. Sikorsky.
The USAF says it will move $430 million from other programmes to the CRH programme though fiscal year 2019 due to "the criticality" of the combat rescue mission.
The project also received an injection of more than $300 million in the fiscal year 2014 budget.
The service warns, however, that the programme may need to be "reevaluated" should additional defense budget cuts take effect in fiscal year 2016.
"The competitive price and the funding provided by Congress will allow us to award the CRH contract, but we could still face significant challenges to keeping this effort on track," says USAF secretary Deborah Lee James in a statement. "We will need to work with Congress throughout 2015 budget deliberations."
The CRH is intended to replace the USAF's aging HH-60G Pave Hawk rescue helicopters, which are also a Sikorsky product.
"Sikorsky and our teammate Lockheed Martin thank the USAF for enabling us to build a modern and affordable combat rescue helicopter that will replace the service’s rapidly aging HH-60G Pave Hawk fleet," says Sikorsky in a statement. "We look forward to working with the USAF to deliver CRH-60 aircraft in the prescribed timeframe."
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Sujet: Re: US Air Force - USAF Sam 24 Avr - 20:27
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Les bombardiers américains pourraient être à nouveau mis en alerte nucléaire permanente
PAR LAURENT LAGNEAU · 23 AVRIL 2021
Actuellement, la dissuasion nucléaire américaine repose sur trois composantes : les missiles balistiques sol-sol intercontinentaux de type Minuteman III, les bombardiers stratégiques et 14 sous-marins nucléaires lanceurs d’engins [SNLE] de classe Ohio. Or, toutes doivent être modernisées dans les années qui viennent, ce qui nécessite évidemment de lourds investissements.
Ainsi, s’agissant de la composante océanique, elle comptera, à partir de 2030, 12 SNLE de la classe Columbia, dont le prix unitaire avoisine les 5 milliards de dollars. Dans le même temps, le développement et l’acquisition des nouveaux bombardiers B-21 Raider coûteront à l’US Air Force environ 80 milliards de dollars pour 100 exemplaires.
Enfin, les 450 missiles balistiques Minuteman III – qui affichent 50 ans d’âge – seront remplacés dans le cadre du programme GSBD [Ground Based Strategic Deterrent], pour lequel un premier contrat de 13,5 milliards de dollars a été attribué à Northrop Grumman en septembre 2020. Mais la facture finale pourrait atteindre les 100 milliards de dollars, ce qui fait « tousser » au Congrès, où certaines voix estiment qu’il serait possible de s’en passer.
Cela, les B-2 « Spirit » et les B-52H « Stratofortress » de l’US Air Force n’assurent plus d’alerte nucléaire permanente depuis la fin des années 1990. C’est à dire qu’aucun d’entre-eux ne se tient actuellement prêt à décoller sur ordre du chef de la Maison Blanche avec une bombe ou un missiles nucléaire prêt à l’emploi en soute.
Aussi, la dissuasion nucléaire américaine ne repose pas à proprement parler sur une « triade » mais sur une « dyade », constituée par les missiles Minuteman III et les SNLE de la classe Ohio. C’est en effet ce qu’a souligné l’amiral Charles Richard, le chef de l’US Strategic Command, lors d’une audition parlementaire.
« Si vous n’avez pas de missiles balistiques intercontinentaux… vous êtes complètement dépendant de la composante sous-marine. J’ai dit au secrétaire à la Défense [Lloyd Austin, ndlr] que, dans ces conditions, je demanderais à mettre de nouveau les bombardiers en alerte permanente », a expliqué l’amiral Richard, alors qu’il était interrogée sur l’avenir du programme GSBD.
Tout dépendra donc du sort que sera fait aux missiles sol-sol de la dissuasion américaine… En tout cas, pour l’amiral Richards, il n’est pas question de les moderniser afin de les maintenir en service au-delà de 2030. Quant à leur remplacement par de nouveaux engins, le prix à payer peut être « dissuasif », alors que les armes hypersoniques sont susceptibles de changer la donne.
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Les F-35A Lightning II de l'US Air Force affectés au 4e Escadron de chasse, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, décollent vers la base aérienne de Mont-de-Marsan, France, le 10 mai 2021. Pendant leur séjour dans le théâtre européen, le Le 4e avion FS participera à plusieurs événements, dont le Trident 21 de l'Atlantique, soulignant l'engagement inébranlable des États-Unis dans la région et améliorant l'interopérabilité avec les alliés et partenaires de l'OTAN. Les F-35A Lightning II de l'US Air Force affectés au 4e Escadron de chasse, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, arrivent à la base aérienne de Mont-de-Marsan, France, le 10 mai 2021. Pendant leur séjour sur le théâtre européen, le 4e FS Les avions participeront à de multiples événements, dont l'Atlantic Trident 21, soulignant l'engagement indéfectible des États-Unis dans la région et améliorant l'interopérabilité avec les alliés et partenaires de l'OTAN.
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La chance qu'ils ont Ssi Fox-one c'est que le Su-57 lui même n'est toujours pas prêt.. maintenant je suis d'accord avec vous c'est une folie le F-35 est un flop et on sait pas si le NGAD aura les même performance que le F-22..
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Sujet: Re: US Air Force - USAF Mar 18 Mai - 13:34
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Air Force Wants to Cut 421 Old Fighters, Buy 304 New Ones
The Air Force will ask Congress to retire 421 legacy aircraft through 2026, replacing them with just 304 new fighters, according to fiscal 2022 budget talking points obtained by Air Force Magazine. The savings derived from operating a smaller fleet will be put toward acquiring new systems such as the Next-Generation Air Dominance fighter later this decade, and a new Multi-Role fighter, called MR-X, in the 2030s.
“The information outlined in the talking points regarding future Air Force fighter force structure is pre-decisional,” said Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, an Air Force spokesperson. The document was not labeled as such, however. He declined further comment about potential future budget or resourcing decisions.
The 421 aircraft described in the talking points include a total phase-out of the aged F-15C/D fleet, numbering about 234 aircraft, by the end of fiscal 2026. The F-16 fleet would be reduced by 124 aircraft, mostly from what are called the “pre-block,” or oldest models, leaving a force of 812, also by the end of 2026. The A-10 attack plane would be reduced from 281 total aircraft to 218, for a reduction of 63 tails, but on a more aggressive timeline ending in fiscal 2023.
Over the future-years defense plan ending in fiscal ’26, the Air Force would also bring on 84 new F-15EX and 220 F-35A fighters, resulting in a net reduction of 117 jets over the five-year period. The downsizing would be the largest since the “CAF Redux,” or Combat Air Forces Reduction of the early 2010s, in which the USAF trimmed its fleet by about 250 airplanes.
Air Force leaders have been pushing for several years to be allowed to retire legacy systems in order to pay for new ones that will be more relevant to the future fight, particularly in the Indo-Pacific theater. Service officials in recent days have said they plan to start phasing out the fifth-generation F-22 in 2030, to be replaced by the classified NGAD family of systems, known to be at least one manned fighter and potentially several unmanned variants. Like the NGAD, the new MR-X would also be designed using new digital methodology to drastically reduce design, development and fielding timelines, while sharply reducing sustainment costs by baking in a short service life, with the expectation that successor aircraft will follow swiftly.
“To just keep pace with the threat would require an additional $6- to $7 billion per year to modernize our current force projected into the future,” the USAF talking points say. “Even if affordable, this force falls well short of the capability required to counter a future peer threat.” The document goes on to argue that no technology can transform “our fourth-generation fighters into fifth-generation fighters, or fifth-generation fighters into NGAD.”
The paper also points out that legacy systems are becoming “significantly more expensive to sustain” and that the USAF fields one of the oldest fleets serving worldwide. The Air Force’s fleet averages 28.6 years, the document points out; by comparison, the Navy’s fleet averages 14.4 years; the Army’s aviation arm averages 15.3 years; the Royal Australian Air Force, 8.9 years, and the U.K. Royal Air Force, 16.5 years.
Lt. Gen. David S. Nahom, deputy chief of staff for plans and programs, said this week that the USAF’s operating and sustainment costs are “skyrocketing,” and increasing at double the rate of inflation, due to the age of the aircraft. He said 44 percent of the USAF’s fleet is operating beyond its planned service life. The F-16 was initially expected to serve until only about 2005.
The F-22 fleet of about 180 aircraft would remain intact through the FYDP, receiving continuing funds for sensor upgrades and to remain fully viable until it begins transitioning out of the force in 2030. According to the talking points, though, the F-22 “cannot be made competitive against the threat two decades from today.”
The NGAD “family of systems” represents “our ability to fight and win in the highly contested environment in the future,” the document says. The new methodology of developing the NGAD “at a pace future threats cannot match” will allow the Air Force to maintain its advantage.
Even so, however, the Air Force seems to have accepted that broad control of the air in a high-end conflict is no longer achievable. It is aiming, rather, for “temporary windows of superiority” in “highly-contested threat environments,” with “complementary capabilities” for the Joint force and U.S. allies. To achieve this, the USAF needs “full-spectrum survivability, high speed, advanced weapons, and extended ranges.”
To perform the “global strike” mission, the USAF adds to those characteristics “sufficient payload” and resilience achieved through “the use of human-machine teaming and a mix of manned and unmanned systems.”
The F-16 and A-10 fleets would also continue to receive funding for structural modifications and capability enhancements to keep them relevant until they fully retire.
The plan reflects the results of “extensive gaming and analysis using the most difficult problem (China) and the most difficult scenario (Taiwan) at the most difficult time (2035),” according to the document. “It is clear that the Air Force must change the future fighter force structure mix by changing investment priorities to provide the capability, capacity, and affordability required to meet a peer threat,” they said.
Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. said May 12 the service must neck down from seven fighter types to “four plus-one,” the “one” being the A-10, in order to reduce the costs of maintaining so many logistics trains.
The A-10 is “very effective in current conflicts, but it is not viable in the long term,” according to the talking points. “Its lack of survivability in the evolving global threat environment and its singular capability set renders it ineffective in the needed role of affordable capacity.” The A-10 cannot perform the defensive counter air, suppression of enemy air defense, or homeland defense missions, the documents said. The service has tried to retire the A-10, unsuccessfully, several times, thwarted by enthusiasts who say it is an unmatched close air support machine.
However, the Air Force plans to prosecute the CAS mission in a different way, Lt. Gen. S. Clinton Hinote, deputy chief of staff for strategy, integration, and requirements, told Air Force Magazine on May 13. Hinote did not describe the new CAS concept but suggested it would involve unmanned aircraft.
Beyond the FYDP, and potentially into the 2030s, the Air Force expects about 600 “post block” F-16s—C/D models from Block 40 on—to remain in the force with with some upgrades, useful in both permissive and some competitive environments. The transition to the MR-X is expected “in the mid-30s.” This new airplane will be a “clean sheet” design, created by digital methods, and the “decision point” to launch the program is now expected to be “six to eight years away,” according to the document. The MR-X “must be able to affordably perform missions short of high-end warfare.” The F-35 could potentially fill this role, but only if its operating costs could be “brought significantly lower.”
The F-15E/X is described in the papers as “an outsized weapons truck,” useful for carrying standoff weapons in a contested theater or performing air superiority in less-contested airspace. Interestingly, while the Air Force has mentioned that the F-15EX could launch the hypersonic, air-to-surface AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW, the talking points say it can also carry an “outsize … air-to-air” weapon, as well. Presumably, this is a long-range weapon meant to counter China’s long-range PL-15 air-to-air missile, but the documents don’t say whether the weapon referenced is the AIM-260, a classified developmental air-to-air missile revealed two years ago.
The Air Force plans to buy 11 F-15EXs in 2022, followed by 14 in 2023 and 19 annually thereafter through the FYDP. If that ramp rate extends through the decade, the USAF would buy its 144th F-15EX in 2030. Contractual documents released last year show that the USAF has options to buy up to 200 F-15EXs.
Brown told a defense symposium this week that his tactical aircraft study, announced in February, is not meant to be a product delivered to Congress, but is an internal assessment of the right future fighter force mix, which will inform the fiscal 2022 budget request but would be implemented in the fiscal ’23 budget and Program Objective Memoranda.
The White House is expected to release its full budget May 27. The Biden administration released a “skinny” budget last month, which calls for $753 billion for national security programs, including $715 billion for the Department of Defense.
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Sujet: Re: US Air Force - USAF Sam 22 Mai - 16:15
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Saturday, May 22, 2021
Project Strike Rodeo: F-15E loaded with five JASSMs
The 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron completed a munitions proof-of-concept called Project Strike Rodeo, May 11, 2021, that validated loading five AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles (JASSM) on an F-15E Strike Eagle. This lays the foundation for follow-on flight testing that would more than double the F-15E’s current JASSM-carrying capacity.
According to Lt. Col. Mike Benitez, 53rd Wing director of staff, the grass-roots initiative started in January 2021 during a WEPTAC working group. A team of expert tacticians were working through a specific scenario that relied on the ability to escort a bomber loaded with stand-off munitions to a release point in a highly-contested environment.
Some warfighters hypothesized that using a formation of fighters instead of a single bomber to employ the JASSM salvo could not only reduce the size and complexity of the strike package required to execute the mission, it would also distribute mission risk across the force. Unfortunately, the maximum number of JASSMs any fighter can currently carry is two, meaning though the idea is feasible it wasn’t viable based on the number of fighters required, unless… a fighter could carry more JASSMs.
With this idea in mind, the F-15E Strike Eagle was the platform considered for taking on the task of carrying more JASSMs, and Project Strike Rodeo was born. Unfortunately, the munitions would not fit on the conformal fuel tank weapons stations of the F-15E, as JASSM was designed to be loaded directly from the base of their shipping containers, which is too large to fit under the F-15E without hitting the main landing gear.
A small Eglin-based team was formed comprising multiple units within the 53d Wing, 96 Test Wing, and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center to find a solution. Using Squadron Innovation Funds, the team designed and manufactured a special loading tool and wrote new weapons loading procedures. Project Strike Rodeo then drew the interest of the F-15 System Program Office, which provided the funding to execute this load test.
“No one told us to do this,” said Benitez. “We saw the need and the opportunity, so we executed. This infectious attitude drove every unit or office we coordinated with. Everyone wanted to see if we could do it, and no one ever pushed back and asked for a requirement or a formal higher headquarters tasking.”
With the successful execution of this load test, Project Strike Rodeo went from idea to execution in five months.
“This is a squadron innovation effort with operational and strategic implications,” said Benitez. “Project Strike Rodeo is all about creating options for combatant commanders, which ultimately can be used to create multiple dilemmas for the adversary.”
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Sujet: Re: US Air Force - USAF Mer 9 Juin - 20:44
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08/06/2021
Des E-11A additionnels pour l’USAF !
L’US Air Force a attribué un contrat de 464,8 millions de dollars à la division spécialisée de Bombardier pour l'achat et la modification de six Global 6000 en tant qu'avions en E-11A « Battlefield Airborne Communications Node » (BACN).
Le Global Express de Bombardier servait déjà dans une version antérieure de E-11A avec quatre exemplaires dans l'inventaire de l’USAF à partir de 2007. Ce nouveau contrat, annoncé par le ministère de la Défense, prévoit des livraisons au cours des cinq prochaines années, jusqu'en mai. 2026. Le Global 600 est modifié avec l’équipement spécial conçu par de Northrop Grumman.
Le Système Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN)
Le Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) est un relais aérien de communication et de relai de communication. Volant à une altitude très élevée, il permet des échanges d'informations en temps réel entre les différents systèmes tactiques de liaison de données, et fournit aux décideurs des informations critiques.
Le BACN permet flux d'information entre systèmes disparates tactiques en réseau de données. En outre, il permet de relais de voix et de pont entre les systèmes vocaux tactiques aussi bien dans la ligne de visée et au-delà des situations de la ligne de vue.
Le BACN augmente la conscience situationnelle en corrélation des photos aériennes tactiques et stratégiques. Par exemple, une unité de l'armée sur le terrain voit actuellement une image différente d'un équipage sur zone, mais avec le BACN il est possible voir la même image. En raison de son altitude opérationnelle ce système permet aux troupes au sol de surmonter les difficultés de communication causées par un terrain montagneux complexe.
Les E-11A BACN évoluent notamment en binôme avec les drones EQ-4B « Global Hawk » Block 20 au sein du 451e Tactical Airborne. En Afghanistan, les E-11A ont effectués depuis 2005 plus de 3’000 heures de vol.
Le Global 6000 :
Le biréacteur Global 6000 offre plus de volume en cabine et plus d’espace de plancher que tout autre avion dans sa catégorie. Aucun autre biréacteur d’affaires de la catégorie des très long-courriers d'aujourd'hui n’affiche pareille autonomie à grande vitesse. Offrant le confort ultime en cabine, cet impressionnant biréacteur peut relier Vienne à Brasilia sans escale avec huit passagers et de trois à quatre membres d’équipage à bord. Il peut franchir 6’000 milles marins (11’100 km) à Mach 0,85 avec jusqu’à huit passagers.
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Sujet: Re: US Air Force - USAF Sam 12 Juin - 20:03
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Ellsworth selected as first base for B-21 Raider
On 10 June 2021, the Secretary of the Air Force officially selected Ellsworth AFB (SD), as the location to host the Air Force’s first operational Northrop Grumman B-21 Raiders and the formal training unit.
The B-21 was designed to replace the USAF’s ageing bomber fleet as a long-range, highly-survivable bomber capable of carrying mixed-conventional and nuclear payloads, to strike any target worldwide.
Now home to three of the four original squadrons that participated in the historic 1942 Doolittle Raid, the rich heritage continues today with Ellsworth’s selection as the first main operating base for the B-21 Raider bomber. The South Dakota air base was selected as the first home base of the B-21 based on criteria related to minimised mission impact, maximised facility reuse, minimised cost and reduced overhead.
The selection came after a thorough environmental impact analysis, in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act. Until the B-21s reach full operational capability, the 28th Bomb Wing operating the B-1B Lancer will simultaneously continue their mission at Ellsworth. The B-21 mission will eventually absorb the manpower already required by the B-1s and will result in an increase of about 1,600 Airmen with the 28th Bomb Wing.
The other two air bases that will host the B-21 are Whiteman AFB (MO) and Dyess AFB (TX). The new bombers will begin arriving at Ellsworth in the mid-2020s. In the meantime, its B-1Bs will continue providing long-range bomber support for USAF's Air Force Global Strike Command.
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Sujet: Re: US Air Force - USAF Sam 12 Juin - 21:16
Le F-22 est l'un des plus moche des avions que j'ai vu...
Le F-15 EX va le remplacer..
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Sujet: Re: US Air Force - USAF Dim 13 Juin - 12:52
Northrop a écrit:
Le F-22 est l'un des plus moche des avions que j'ai vu...
Le F-15 EX va le remplacer..
Sérieux.. Je le trouve moi beau comme une top modèle Rien à voir avec fat amy
Je trouve que le seul défaut du 22 est sa capacité d'emport. Après le concept de furtivite n'est sûrement plus à jour, (développement de nouveaux radars ches les russes et chinois),. Cela explique le changement de priorités
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Sujet: Re: US Air Force - USAF Lun 14 Juin - 14:16
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Sujet: Re: US Air Force - USAF Mar 15 Juin - 16:57
Fox-One a écrit:
Northrop a écrit:
Le F-22 est l'un des plus moche des avions que j'ai vu...
Le F-15 EX va le remplacer..
Sérieux.. Je le trouve moi beau comme une top modèle Rien à voir avec fat amy
Je trouve que le seul défaut du 22 est sa capacité d'emport. Après le concept de furtivite n'est sûrement plus à jour, (développement de nouveaux radars ches les russes et chinois),. Cela explique le changement de priorités
Question de goût Fox-1 .
Je respecte les goûts de chacun d'ailleurs..
Moi je lui reproche son côté " science fiction", avec d'autres appareils d'ailleurs..
A l'exception du F-35..
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Sujet: Re: US Air Force - USAF Mar 15 Juin - 21:17
Avia. Pro a écrit:
Операторы американского БПЛА MQ-9 разбили дрон за 17 млн. долларов
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Avarié, un MQ-9 US, d'une valeur de $17 millions est crashé volontairement dans un pays africain
L'armée américaine a écrasé un drone de frappe de 17 millions de dollars.
Au cours d'une opération militaire spéciale sur le territoire de l'un des États africains, l'armée américaine a délibérément détruit son drone de reconnaissance MQ-9 Reaper. Le coût du drone était de 17 millions de dollars et à la suite du crash, le drone a été détruit et ne peut pas être restauré.
Selon les informations dont dispose l'agence de presse Avia.pro, lors d'un survol d'un des Etats africains, le drone MQ-9A Reaper a connu une fuite de carburant, obligeant ses opérateurs à l'envoyer au sol. Cela a été fait délibérément pour que les restes du drone et ses équipements, après un éventuel impact au sol, ne tombent pas entre de "mauvaises mains". Le MQ-9A, numéro de série 08-4051 du 214th Squadron, était en mission en soutien au commandement américain en Afrique. Selon un certain nombre de données, la fuite de carburant serait causé par des tirs hostiles depuis le sol, bien qu'il n'y ait pas encore de confirmation officielle de ces données.
Il convient de noter que sur le territoire de la Syrie, l'armée américaine a perdu au moins 4 drones d'attaque MQ-9 Reaper - certains d'entre eux ont été détruits par les systèmes de défense aérienne de l'AAS. Cependant, dans une partie des incidents, la Russie est suspectée, qui aurait pu utiliser ses moyens de guerre électronique pour entrer en collision avec deux drones, comme précédemment rapporté par la ressource Avia.pro.
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Sujet: Re: US Air Force - USAF Ven 18 Juin - 13:08
Air Force Magazine a écrit:
Gen. Brown: NGAD Will be a Multirole Fighter
The Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) system—the fighter that will succeed the F-22—will have ground attack capability possibly for its own protection, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. told lawmakers June 16.
Testifying before the House Armed Services Committee on the fiscal 2022 budget request, Brown said he wants the NGAD to have “multirole” capability, emphasizing that the aircraft’s primary role will be air dominance but with the ability to strike ground targets as well.
Compared to the F-22, Brown said the NGAD will have “increased weapons load [and] … increased range” necessary to operate at the great distances required in the Indo-Pacific theater.
The NGAD will have “some air-to-ground capability to ensure, one, that it can survive, but also to provide options for our air component commanders and for the Joint Force,” Brown said, suggesting that the NGAD will be able to shoot at air defense systems that threaten it.
Gen. Mark D. Kelly, head of Air Combat Command, has said there may be two variants of NGAD: one with long range and payload for the Indo-Pacific and one more oriented to the relatively short ranges between possible battle areas in Europe.
The NGAD is described as a “family of systems” that allows the Air Force to control the sky at times and places of its choosing, but its centerpiece will be a fighter aircraft. Other parts of the system are likely to be unmanned escort aircraft to carry extra munitions and perform other missions.
During the hearing, Brown also confirmed that the Air Force’s reason for not including more F-35s on its unfunded priorities list is that it prefers to wait for the more advanced Block 4 version of the jet.
“The F-35 we have today is not necessarily the F-35 we want to have that goes into the future, that will have Tech Refresh 3 and Block 4 against an advancing … Chinese threat,” Brown said.
The Air Force has put more F-35s on its unfunded priority list for the last several years, and Congress has obliged, adding 12 jets every year to the Air Force’s request for 48. However, members of the HASC in previous hearings this year have said they would fight against adding more F-35s to USAF’s request because the previous adds have exacerbated parts shortages and lowered the aircraft’s mission capable rates.
Brown emphasized that, while there were F-15EXs in the unfunded priority list, that move is meant to swiftly try to reduce the average age of the fighter fleet, which now is about 29 years old.
“Even with the unfunded priority list, the majority of new fighters we’re going to buy will be F-35s,” Brown said. But the Air Force did put F-35 sustainment items in the list because improvement in this area is a critical priority, he said.
Internal documents obtained by Air Force Magazine have shown the service intends to reduce its F-35 buy through the rest of the Future Years Defense Program to about 43 per year, in anticipation of Block 4 aircraft, which start coming off the production line sometime after 2025. The Government Accountability Office recently reported further slips in that timeline.
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Sujet: Re: US Air Force - USAF Jeu 24 Juin - 22:28
F-15E low level flight
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Sujet: Re: US Air Force - USAF Jeu 8 Juil - 13:56
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE a écrit:
Test team detonates hypersonic missile warhead
Recently, the 780th Test Squadron successfully detonated an AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon warhead for the first time.
The first-of-its-kind test for the air-to-ground, rocket-powered, high-altitude, hypersonic missile collected data on the lethality of the unique weapon.
The unique nature and shape of the warhead required a lot of firsts for everyone involved, according to the test’s manager, David Spiker 780th TS.
Some of the firsts were the new and unorthodox design and construction of the test arena, the test procedures and equipment, the warhead’s fragmentation data collecting and the post-test data processing to ensure the warhead’s effects have been accurately characterized.
The 780th TS successfully designed and conducted the test to ensure the customer’s data requirements were met through tactical hardware capable of capturing hypersonic flight. That hardware capability were developed through new and improved test tools, technologies, and techniques.
This successful test positioned Eglin’s test team to remain at the forefront to support the testing of hypersonic weapons long into the future.
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