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The future is unmanned
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4 US surveillance planes fly over Korean Peninsula on same day. Image Source: IANS News
The manned fighter aircraft is dead!
The Air Warfare Symposium, conducted by the US Air Force Association on 27 and 28 February, 2020, may go down in history as an event where history was foretold. It was here, on the morning of 28 February, 2020, that Elon Musk, the quintessential disruptor, set the cat among the pigeons. In a room overflowing with Air Force personnel, many fighter pilots among them, Musk famously predicted the end of the manned fighter aircraft. Much consternation followed, and copious amounts of newsprint was invested in the counter-narrative that flowed, mainly from the US Air Force and its veterans. Notably, much of the criticism of Musk s proclamation was aimed at targeting him personally as a head-line grabber , rather than to disprove his assertion through solid logic and evidence. This is probab
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We may be ending the era of “forever wars,” as suggested by President Biden in a televised address on April 15, but that does not mean an end to US involvement in foreign wars. Rather, we are entering a new era of military competition with Russia and China that could easily result in short but very intense and destructive conflicts call them “hypersonic wars.” Indeed, during the very week that Biden announced the impending US pullout from Afghanistan, the Pentagon disclosed that it had rescinded the Trump administration’s plans to reduce US troop levels in Germany and was sending an additional 500 troops there, members of elite high-tech combat units. “This planned increase
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The U.S. Army is scheduled to conduct the fourth Precision Strike Missile (PRSM) test in mid-May at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. For the upcoming test, the Army plans to shoot a PRSM 400 km (250 mi.). Brig. Gen. John Rafferty, long-range precision fires cross-functional team director.
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