Reposted by AirPower (MIL-STD)TaskForce23 @taskforce23.bsky.social · 07/06/2025CCA Increment 1 mockups 2131
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Our closest look at the AIM-260 #JATM guidance section yet. Quite a contrast to the AMRAAM with a much pointier radome and the almost non existent fins. Also distinct are the two sets of apertures covering the diameter of the section (presumably a multi-band targeting device). 📸 Colin Clark CCFOC1 2409
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 07/03/2025🚨 AIM-260A live-fire testing on the F/A18 E/F is well underway giving further indication that #JATM is close to becoming, if not already, operational. USN recently recognized an officer with its Air Test & Eval Squadron 31 for leading #JATM live-fire testing back in 2024. 181
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Now that we know what #JATM looks like, some impressions 👇 🔸Significant ⬆️ in Solid Rocket Motor length vs AMRAAM (45%- 50 % of total length) 🔸Low drag wingless design w/o forward aero surfaces. Similar to early AMRAAM proposals from Raytheon & Northrop 🔸Multiple conformal antennas aft of seeker 3276
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 26/01/2025US Air Force's Next Generation Air Dominance Software Factory has been recognized by the Department of Defense with a software innovation award. #NGAD SFT has managed and delivered a classified software & digital infrastructure portfolio..for the $22.4 Bn NGAD and CCA programs. 0101
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Back in 2020, the US Navy's Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division asked industry for multiple 16 inch diameter / 106 in long Solid Fuel Ramjet & IRR propulsion systems to support a 'demonstration program'. The Navy hasn't released much additional info on that effort. 1120
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 08/01/2025"Epirus will soon host a live demonstration to showcase its advanced #HPM #Leonidas counter-drone capabilities, including a "100-drone shoot down" that aims to display the company's ability to neutralize a swarm of UAS with a single, coordinated strike" insidedefense.com/daily-news/e... 1244
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 08/01/2025"Th US Navy's Next Generation Air Dominance #NGAD Family of Systems (FoS) ICD [Initial Capabilities Document] was approved by the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) in Spring 2015 and validated by the Joint Staff in summer 2015" ~ US Navy 0213
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Assuming the $300 MM #NGAD PCA estimate (shared by Frank Kendall) is in 2018/20$, you are looking at a 30-50% ⬆️ unit cost for #NGAD compared to F-22A (adj for same year $) . Folks forget that in FY07, the fly-away and weapon system unit cost of F-22A exceeded $130MM & $170MM respectively. 1162
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Both USAF & Navy #NGAD efforts just secured all the funding they need for the rest of the decade & beyond. Also worth noting that a stealthy theater strike aircraft was called out in DOD's China assessment released recently. NGAD-USAF was probably assessed against that.. 2206
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 21/12/2024🚨#NGAD A recent internal Air Force analysis supports the development of a manned, next-gen fighter jet, 3 sources told @breakingdefense.com — a finding that comes amid a high-profile debate over the future of the multi-billion-dollar Next Gen. Air Dominance #NGAD program. 3293
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 18/12/2024You want a 1,000 #ATACMS for Ukraine. I want $200+ Billion invested in Long Range Fires over the next decade to help build back the arsenal of democracy and help Ukraine, Taiwan and our allies and partners. We are not the same. 2457
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 18/12/2024We've made a lot of progress on #NGAD over the last decade flying multiple FS demonstrators supporting USAF & Navy programs. I hope the incoming administration will green light AF's #NGAD EMD & that we have both AF (air sup) & Navy (strike) programs in full scale dev in 2025.🤞 1193
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 18/12/2024“ The 2 test flights involved a Raytheon-made missile propelled by an Ursa Major SRM measuring less than 10 inches in diameter...Much about the capability Ursa Major is developing — and the weapon that will use it — is shrouded in mystery" breakingdefense.com/2024/12/rayt...breakingdefense.comRaytheon, Ursa Major log successful solid rocket motor flight test"In this particular program, we went from concept and design to firing and flight on the range in just under four months, which is lightning fast," said Ursa Major CEO Dan Jablonsky. 2184
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 16/12/2024"They [US Army - Cap & limitation tests] tried to get as many drones as they could that we would see overseas. They wanted to get drones that might have been hardened..against EM emissions.We had zero targets that we did not take down. We were 100% effective"~Andy Lowery, #Epirus 2576
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 14/12/2024SRM dimensions (in) via General Dynamics OTS: #Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile ( #HACM ) : 19.8 x 90 AGM183 #ARRW: 25.5 x 140 OpFires (FS): 32 x 122.6 OpFires (SS): 32 x 71.6 If HACM retains the 20 ft length of DARPA's #HAWC, the cruiser & interstage would be 12.5 ft vs 19 ft on X-51 #Waverider. 0214
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 11/12/2024"Lockheed & the MDA successfully completed Flight Experiment Mission (FEM)-02 with a live exo-atmospheric intercept of a Medium-Range Ballistic Missile target using the Aegis Guam System. #FEM02 successfully demo'd defense of Guam against an air-launched MRBM. ~Lockheed Martin 1195
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 06/12/2024"To mitigate the financial impact on the Boeing & Lockheed Martin #NGAD teams, the Air Force is extending the TMRR contracts. The extensions will allow both to..keep the engineering groups from being disbanded while the companies wait for the..decision" aviationweek.com/defense/airc...aviationweek.comUSAF Punts Final NGAD Decision To Trump Administration | Aviation Week NetworkThe U.S. Air Force will postpone decisions about the future of the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program until beyond year-end. 1120
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 05/12/2024The U.S. Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center (TRMC), in partnership with Naval Surface Warfare Center, conducted a commercially launched Multi-Service Advanced Capability #Hypersonics Test Bed (MACH-TB) flight test in November the DOD announced today. 293
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I expect the "affordable Cruise Missile" to see a major ⬆️ under the Trump administration. Partly due to need to field affordable mass & partly due to mature designs & tech. Depending on the capability sought, this could mean a $20-$25 Bn effort to field an inventory of 100K AUR's. 2152
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 23/11/2024"The U.S. Army recently completed a successful test of the Long-Range #Hypersonic Weapon #LRHW, nicknamed Dark Eagle, which flew in a near-operational configuration over 2,000 miles.." nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/da...nationalinterest.orgDark Eagle: The Army's Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon Explained in 1 WordThe U.S. Army recently completed a successful test of the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), nicknamed Dark Eagle, which flew in a near-operational configuration over 2,000 miles. Dark Eagle combine... 0264
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 22/11/2024"The Skunk Works & OPL teams simulated an offensive counter air mission where an airborne, human "battle manager" aboard an L-39 Albatros assigned targets to 2 AI-controlled L-29 Delfin jets, which then worked together to defeat 2 mock enemy jets" news.lockheedmartin.com/2024-11-21-S...news.lockheedmartin.comSkunk Works® Demonstrates Airborne Battle Management of AI-Controlled AircraftLockheed Martin Skunk Works® (NYSE: LMT), in partnership with Lockheed Martin's Demonstrations and Prototypes organization and the University of Iowa's Operator Performance Laboratory (OPL),... 0334
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 21/11/2024"Although branded a “stand-in” weapon..the weapon can be delivered “from sanctuary"..Its actual range & speed have not been divulged, but the #AARGM-ER is believed to be a Mach 4 missile with a range of 180 miles, and #SiAW may have better performance" www.airandspaceforces.com/northrop-gru...airandspaceforces.comNorthrop Grumman Delivers First SiAW Missile for Air Force TestingThe first Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW), an anti-air defense missile built by Northrop Grumman, has been delivered to the Air Force. 0394
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Literally everyone in the A&D media over the last decade : Look at China’s long range A2A missile. The US is so behind the curve. Raytheon: 1291
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 12/10/2023Lockheed Martin has successfully demonstrated a proof-of-concept for providing in-flight target updates to a #GMLRS rocket via its Remote Interceptor Guidance – 360 (#RIG360) system originally designed around PATRIOT/IAMD missile communication. 1111
AirPower (MIL-STD) @mil-std.bsky.social · 12/10/2023"Whether its HPM, Laser systems, low collateral CUAS interceptors..all are present in theater & showing success. We've used a $40K APKWS system to take out Group 3 UAS. We've sent several of those prototypes to support some of our partners" ~ Major Gen. Sean Gainey #AUSA2023 060