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© SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images The recently declassified U.S. strategic framework on the Indo-Pacific region shows that U.S. national security policymakers — at least under Trump — envisioned India as a regional balancer to China in the Indo-Pacific.  But the strategy, which deals mostly in conventional security challenges, is missing at least half of India’s potential value in the geopolitical tug-of-war. U.S. policymakers should be working to shift a good portion of the roles China now plays in the U.S. economy — as a market and as a supplier — onto India’s shoulders. ...

Share Blue Force Technologies is developing the REDMedium UAS, pictured in this concept flying with Lockheed Martin F-35As. Credit: Blue Force Technologies When Will Roper, the former U.S. Air Force acquisition chief, called for applying unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to the adversary air mission in an interview in January with Aviation Week ( AW&ST Feb. 8-21, p. 46), the founder of an experimental aircraft prototype manufacturing company in North Carolina noticed. For two years, Blue Force Technologies has been developing a UAS called REDMedium to perform as much as 60% of the advers...

By ZACHARY FRYER-BIGGS | Special To The Washington Post | Published: February 19, 2021 The camouflage-clad cadets are huddled around a miniature arena in the basement of a building dug into the cliffs on the West Point campus. They're watching a robotic tank about the height of a soda can with a metal spear attached whir into action. Surrounded by balloons of various colors representing either enemy fighters or civilians, the tank, acting on its own, uses a thumbnail-size camera to home in on a red balloon. The cadets wince as an earsplitting pop suddenly reverberates through the room: One "...

18/02/2021 a las 10:03pm The F-16 first flew 47 years ago, and the Air Force may keep it flying decades longer due to problems with the F-35 The F-16 first flew 47 years ago, and the Air Force may keep it flying decades longer due to problems with the F-35 A US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon on a mission near Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom, March 22, 2003. US Air Force/Staff Sgt. Cherie Thurlby Nearly 50 years after its first flight, the F-16 remains in service with air forces around the world. The US Air Force was set to get rid of its F-16s in the coming decade, but delays on its new ...

US Air Force eyes budget-conscious, clean-sheet fighter jet to replace the F-16 February 18 An F-16 Fighting Falcon assigned to the 480th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron lands at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates. (Senior Airman Bryan Guthrie/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force could be in the market for a brand-new, advanced, fourth-generation fighter jet as it looks to replace its oldest F-16s, the service’s top general said Wednesday. The Air Force has started a study that will describe its preferred mix of fighters and other tactical aircraft that will be used ...