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Joby, L3Harris fly autonomous electric aircraft, eye defense market

Joby Aviation and L3Harris Technologies said Wednesday they have conducted their first test flight of an autonomous hybrid vertical takeoff and…

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Military Culture

Air Force greenlights colored T-shirt and callsign name tags on Fridays

Airmen can now wear “morale” T-shirts on Fridays and rock nametags with their callsigns on daily flight duty, according to…

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Air Force

European NATO countries scrap plan to buy Boeing E-7 Wedgetail AWACS

PARIS — The Netherlands and a number of European NATO partners are scrapping plans to buy six Boeing E-7 Wedgetail…

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Air Force

Pentagon wants ‘calculated’ risk culture in weapons buying revamp

The Pentagon wants its overhauled cadre of executives in charge of major acquisition programs to have enough flexibility and power to take…

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Air Force

French air force official says FCAS industry kerfuffle is overblown

ROME — Reports of infighting between partners on the French-German-Spanish FCAS fighter program have been exaggerated and the platform will see the…

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Air Force

GCAP fighter jet designers push to keep weapons, drone options open

ROME — The new sixth-generation GCAP fighter should be able to carry a wide variety of armaments and work with…

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Air Force

Experts: Full nuclear weapons tests would backfire on US

Resuming full testing of nuclear weapons — as President Donald Trump called for last week — would be unnecessary, costly, undermine nonproliferation…

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Defense Technology

Gen. Wilsbach sworn in as Air Force chief, pledges to advance modernization and readiness

In his first message to airmen as chief of staff of the Air Force, Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach vowed that the…

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Air Force

Anduril’s drone wingman begins flight tests

The second of the U.S. Air Force’s two prototype drone wingmen, known as collaborative combat aircraft, began flight testing Friday, the…

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Air Force

US Air Force wants 1,558 fighters for low-risk wars. Can it get there?

The Air Force told lawmakers it needs a fighter fleet of 1,558 manned, combat-coded fighters to carry out and sustain operations at…

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