19 novembre 2021 | International, Aérospatial
What the USAF’s ‘four-plus-one’ fighter fleet looks like - Skies Mag
The Next-Generation Air Dominance fighter, F-15EX, F-35, and F-16 are where the U.S. Air Force sees its fighter future.
5 octobre 2023 | International, Aérospatial
Wittman lukewarm on Air Force plan to ‘quickstart’ programs
"Congress needs to do its job" and pass budgets on time, Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., said. “If we did our jobs, you wouldn’t need quickstart provisions.”
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26 mars 2019 | International, Aérospatial
Pentagon: We’re Buying Boeing F-15s to Keep 2 Fighter Makers in Business
BY MARCUS WEISGERBER The acting defense secretary's ties to the company had nothing to do with the decision, a senior defense official said Friday. The decision to buy new Boeing F-15s reflects the Pentagon's desire to keep two American companies making fighter jets into the next decade — and not the acting defense secretary's ties to the company, a senior defense official said Friday. The 2020 budget request contains $1.1 billion to buy eight F-15X jets, a new variant of an aircraft the Air Force last bought nearly a decade ago. The twin-tailed plane was chosen over Lockheed's cheaper single-engine F-16 in part to keep a second U.S. manufacturer in the tactical-jet business as the Pentagon begins exploring new technologies for a new generation of warplanes, the official said. “One of the considerations was the diversity of the industrial base,” the official said. “If we look at something as important as the tactical aircraft industrial base and we look forward into sixth-generation [fighter] production and competition and that kind of stuff,...gaining diversity in that industrial base is going to be critical.” The senior defense official emphasized that Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, who formerly worked as a Boeing executive, was not involved in the decision to buy the F-15X. Full article: https://www.defenseone.com/business/2019/03/pentagon-were-buying-f-15s-keep-2-fighter-makers-business/155773
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20 mars 2024 | International, Terrestre
US Air Force tests third-stage rocket motor for next nuclear missile
Northrop Grumman has also carried out other tests of Sentinel ICBM components, including a fly-off test of its nose cone shroud.