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Air Force Pilots Are About to Do Battle With Autonomous Drones
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The Air Force Wants Laser Communication Pods To Securely Link Fighter Aircraft With Satellites
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| | Laser communications pods could give fighter aircraft virtually unjammable high-bandwidth satellite communications.
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Lockheed Is Bringing Back The Airbus A330 Tanker To Compete Against Boeing
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| | The Air Force wants to buy dozens of new tankers to fill a gap between the last expected deliveries of KC-46As and a future advanced design.
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Pentagon takes AI dogfighting to next level in real-world flight tests against human F-16 pilot | DefenseScoop
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| | Flight tests conducted by the Defense Advanced Research Agency, the U.S. Air Force and their industry partners have demonstrated safe and effective employment of an autonomous fighter jet, including in "nose-to-nose" dogfighting against a human F-16 pilot, according to officials.
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HASC's Adam Smith Says Pentagon Must Assess Platform Capability for Modernization Efforts - USNI News
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| The Pentagon must make modernization choices between legacy systems and new technology like lasers by evaluating each platform's capability, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee said this week. "The aircraft carrier battle groups have been enormously helpful" in deterring Iran and its proxies over the last six months, Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said of aircraft carriers in the eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea. He added that investing in lasers for directed energy effects could lead to a...