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"Not sure if this is a black swan, but I would not be surprised if the next administration kicks off an internal review of the services’ roles and responsibilities, with an eye toward reducing excessive redundancy in force structure and capabilities," Mark Gunzinger says . By   Theresa Hitchens on December 28, 2020 at 1:55 PM Airmen install a new cable run on an aging Minuteman III missile. WASHINGTON: Budget. Budget. Budget. It’s the first word out of the mouths of analysts, former DoD officials and retired brass when asked (in a totally unscientific poll) to opine on the three major...

Till today, aircraft systems that could make military aviation more accommodating for women and encourage more of them to stay in service are still designed around men. Photos: AFP As a helicopter pilot in Iraq in 2004, now-Senator Tammy Duckworth stopped drinking water hours before she climbed into the cockpit of her Army UH-60 Black Hawk for combat missions. Even in Iraq’s heat, she’d purposefully dehydrate herself because there was not a safe way for her to use the restroom in her one-piece, zip-up flight suit. "I would have to take off my side arm. I wore a shoulder holster, so I wou...

New in 2021: Advanced Battle Management System testing begins December 27, 2020 Tech. Sgt. John Rodiguez provides security with a Ghost Robotics Vision 60 prototype at a simulated austere base during the Advanced Battle Management System exercise on Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Sept. 1, 2020. (Tech. Sgt. Cory D. Payne/Air Force) As early as March, the Air Force and Army could begin major experiments on their systems to allow aircraft, sensors and other weapons systems across services to share data instantaneously. As part of a Sept. 29 agreement signed by both services’ chiefs of staf...

U.S. Air Force’s Hypersonic Cruise Missile Fails in Test Our Bureau 5115 Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) illustration. The U.S. Air Force’s Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) experimental missile has reportedly failed during tests last week. In September, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced successful completion of captive carry tests of two variants of the HAWC, and said they were ready to proceed to first free-flight testing within the calendar year. Both Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technologies have developed HAWC demonstrators. “...

McClatchy exclusively reported this summer that of the military’s 48,000 pilots, only 3,300 were women and only 72 were Black. There are a multitude of reasons, including that the services did not open up flying roles to women until in the 1970s and did not allow women to fly in combat until the 1990s. But even 25 years later, aircraft systems that could make military aviation more accommodating for women and encourage more of them to stay in service are still designed around men. That’s starting to change. This summer, due in part to the uproar over the death of George Floyd in Minneapol...