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Theresa Hitchens on May 14, 2021 at 4:59 PM
F-22 Raptor
WASHINGTON: A key Air Force focus for the 2023-2027 budget will be “agile combat employment,” and the problem of contested logistics in globalized warfare, says Lt. Gen. David Nahom, service deputy chief of staff for plans and programs.
“As we look forward in our investment, you’re gonna hear us spend a lot of time on we’re calling ‘agile combat employment,’ or ACE: the ability to operate away from establish runways, operate in a manner that makes difficult problems for our adversaries.”
But it’s unclear what ACE will mean as far as equipment and future spending, because the Air Force has yet to fully flesh out the new operational concept for fighting globalized war with Russia and/or China with Beijing in particular moving to beef up its missile inventories and other capabilities for power projection.
simulating reentry velocities and conditions with a three-stage solid-fuel Lockheed X-17.
A total of 26 X-17 flights were conducted until March 1957.
1958 Aug 27 -Launch Site USS Norton Sound Launch Complex
Argus 1
The Argus series were the only clandestine nuclear ever conducted by the United States.The rocket-launched nuclear warheads were set off at very high altitudes over the South Atlantic,1800 km south-west of Capetown,South Africa. The purpose was to determine the effects of nuclear tests explosions on the Earth’s
magnetic field and the impact to military radar, communications, satellites and ballistic missiles electronics. The earth’s magnetic field is not only off-axis from the earth,but also off centre from the earth’s core. This means the Van Allen Radiation belts are closest to the earth in the region known as the ‘South Atlantic Anomaly’.
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By SARAH CAMMARATA | STARS AND STRIPES Published: May 7, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. WASHINGTON The Air Force’s chief of staff told House lawmakers on Friday that the service has slightly reduced its deficit in pilots, following initial concern that a reduction in flight training due to the coronavirus pandemic could exacerbate the Air Force’s long-standing pilot shortage. “We ve made some progress over the course of the past year, where we shortened the gap by about 200,” Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown said at an Air Force and Space Force budget hearing of the House Appropriations Committee’s subpanel on defense.
“This has been the toughest year of my career.”
In late-2016, a fellow squadron commander and close friend was in my office at Yokota Air Base in Japan. Sadly, he was in a familiar, dark place: Leading his airmen through the pain and despair of another suicide. It was the third suicide that year within our base’s maintenance group, part of an epidemic gripping the Air Force, the Department of Defense and American society writ large.
According to the latest annual report released by the Department of Defense in October 2020, from 2015 to 2019, the overall rate of deaths by suicide rose from 20.2 to 25.9 deaths per 100,000. Between 2018 and 2019, the Air Force’s numbers jumped from 18.5 to 25.1 per 100,000. In August 2019, then-Chief of Staff of the Air Force General David Goldfein wrote, “Suicide is an adversary that is killing more of our airmen than any enemy on the planet.” By contrast, through April 27, 2021, the Air Force reported zero uniformed COVID deat