Combat Archer News Today

We got unprecedented access to see for ourselves what it is like flying on a Combat Archer air-to-air missile shoot sortie.

Evaluating the efficacy of a missile starts with how it is assembled and loaded on the ground and ends with it scoring a 'kill' or not.

Combat Archer is designed to give fighter squadrons a final evaluation before deployments that could see them in real air-to-air engagements.

The QF-16 Full-Scale Aerial Targets fly both manned and unmanned missions, including acting as missile magnets during some live-fire events.

Why the Air Force puts its fighter squadrons through the exhaustive Weapons System Evaluation Program prior to deploying into harm's way.

Tyndall Air Force Base hosted biannual exercise Combat Hammer and Combat Archer respectively during two-week-long Weapon System Evaluation Program-East 23.01 to provide squadrons from across the Department of the Air Force a multi-platform training environment to conduct air-to-ground and air-to-air combat operations.

Earlier this year, the US Air Force's newest fighter jet, the F-15EX, had undergone a series of test flights. It fired its first missile in February during an air-to-air weapons system evaluation program.

The US Air Force (USAF) conducted the first release of an air-launched missile from a Boeing F-15EX Eagle II next-generation multirole combat aircraft over the Gulf of Mexico on 25 January. Pursuing a Kratos Defense & Security Solutions BQM-...

The US Air Force (USAF) conducted the first release of an air-launched missile from a Boeing F-15EX Eagle II next-generation multirole combat aircraft over the Gulf of Mexico on 25 January. Pursuing a Kratos Defense & Security Solutions BQM-...

The new F-15EX successfully fired a weapon for the first time.