By Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven: “The Air Force is strengthening its “Rapid Raptor” program designed to fast-track four F-22s to war - anywhere in the
world - within 24 hours, on a moments notice.”
Is the F-22 Loosing Its Stealth?
By Daniel Cebul, C4ISRNET: “Some of the military's most advanced aircraft could be tracked by adversaries, with greater precision than radar, if security flaws in the latest signal technology aren't addressed.”
With the A-10 Marines Call in the Heat on the Taliban
By Shawn Snow, Marine Corps Times: “Two sorties of A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft struck Taliban militants in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on Jan. 24. It's the first series of strikes by the aircraft since its return to Afghanistan on Jan. 19."
By Sydney Freedberg, Breaking Defense: “The Pentagon's Strategic Capabilities Office will test-fire a radical new missile defense system in less than a year. The Hyper Velocity Projectile, a supersonic artillery round, is fired from ordinary cannon at 5,600 miles per hour and can kill incoming threats for a mere $86,000 a shot.”
By Joseph Trevithick & Tyler Rogoway, The WarZone: “The U.S. Navy has hired Orbital ATK, now part of Northrop Grumman, to begin formal development of a new missile that can suppress and destroy enemy air defense emitters, known as the the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range, or AARGM-ER.”
By Dan Goure, The National Interest: “The F-35’s combination of stealth, maneuverability, its Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar, passive sensors and battle management software makes it ideal as both a strike platform and a forward operating sensor.”
By Aaron Mehta, Defense News: “Sustainment costs on the F-35 are poised to become unaffordable, and that’s a big challenge for Ellen Lord, the Pentagon’s newly christened undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment.”