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Jeff Kojac, RealClearDefense Congress should empower warfighters through partnership, not seizure of intellectual property. Source link

DAYTON, Ohio — After years of delays, the Air Force now expects a next-generation engine will be ready to be put on an aircraft by the end of the decade — though a top service official would not commit to which plane the powerplant might fly with.  Over the next few years, and coinciding with a cresting budget for the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion program, the Air Force expects to build and test dueling prototypes from competitors GE Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney. That work, according to John Sneden, the chief of the Air Force’s propulsion directorate, will culminate in…

Last week, Pakistan and Chinese companies signed agreements worth $850 million at the Pakistan-China Pharmaceutical and Healthcare B2B Investment Conference in Islamabad. Held on July 17 and 18, the event focused on vaccine production, active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), medical devices, clinical trials, and related pharmaceutical subsectors. It brought together 146 Chinese companies with around 220 delegates and more than 200 Pakistani firms, marking one of the largest China-Pakistan business engagements in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, and biotechnology sectors. Federal Health Minister Mustafa Kamal announced on July 18 that 16 contracts and 80 memoranda of understanding had been finalized during the event.…

Hope Hodge Seck, Navy T. The C-2 Greyhound made its final carrier landing at the end of June, capping off its mission as the Navy’s only carrier delivery passenger plane Source link

American defense strategy depends on airpower. That has been true for decades, but the demand signal is sharper now. The United States expects its Air Force to deter China, reassure allies in Europe, defend the homeland, respond to crises in the Middle East and remain ready for major war. Those missions are spread across different theaters, different timelines and different levels of risk. They all assume that enough combat airpower will be available when needed.  That assumption is becoming harder to defend.  The Air Force fighter fleet is now the oldest and smallest in the service’s 78-year history. Legacy fighter aircraft…

DAYTON, Ohio—Air Force officials plan to resume B-52 radar development with another Stratofortress after a deadly crash killed the eight-person crew onboard one of the bombers last month during a test flight. On June 15, a B-52 Stratofortress crashed in California during a test flight as part of the Air Force’s radar modernization program, which is aimed at keeping the service’s 75 Cold War-era bombers in the skies until at least the 2050s. The service had already planned to modify another aircraft with the updated Raytheon-built Active Electronically Scanned Array radar later this year, program officials told reporters on Monday during…

Twelve years into the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in New Delhi, and the unthinkable happened. A minister in the Union Cabinet, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, was forced to resign under massive pressure from student protesters demanding “accountability” for the leak of question papers for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Tests (NEET) on May 3. Pradhan’s resignation came 36 days after the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) launched its indefinite mass protests at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar calling for exactly that outcome. It is a major victory for the CJP, an online satirical campaign started by Abhijeet Dipke in…

MC Compass Points One of the big themes in your well-known “Combat Concepts” talk is the need to extend maneuver thinking beyond warfighting concepts to application. For you, General Gray,… Source link

WASHINGTON — L3Harris has reached a framework agreement with the Pentagon to ramp up solid rocket motor production for PAC-3 missiles and THAAD interceptors over the next seven years, the department announced today. The two agreements with L3Harris come as the Pentagon aims to boost weapons production following the war in Ukraine and as operations in Iran have prompted questions about US munitions levels. The deals are the first to center around the critical technology of solid rocket motors, which has long been a chokepoint for missile production as a result of its fractured, fragile industrial base. Under the PAC-3…

On July 23, India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) successfully carried out the maiden test of the M1 long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM), one of three interceptors being developed under the Kusha program, from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast. This is an important milestone in India’s evolving multi-layered long-range air defense architecture envisaged under Mission Sudarshan Chakra that is scheduled to be put in place by 2035. This test was conducted against an electronic target simulating a high-speed and high-altitude aerial threat, which was successfully intercepted. DRDO said that the Kusha missile system is capable of…