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David Patrick
10:16 am

Rep. Crow Says Elon Musk Shouldn’t Make “Life-and-Death Decisions” as a “Single Unelected Tech Oligarch” Over Musk’s Control of Starlink Service in Ukraine

U.S. Representative Jason Crow, a Colorado Democrat, said Tuesday that “A single unelected tech oligarch

Air Power, Stealth Aircraft, U.S. Air Force

David Patrick
5:00 am

The only F-117 flown in all four conflicts where Nighthawks saw combat, nicknamed The Overachiever, is joining the Smithsonian and is expected on public display in late October

One Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk carries a combat record no other airframe of its type can

Air Power, U.S. Air Force

David Patrick
1:57 pm

Convair built only one XC-99, a transport with a 230-foot wingspan designed to carry 400 troops, and it moved more than 60 million pounds of cargo before its final flight in 1957

Take the wing of the B-36 bomber, all 230 feet of it, and build a

Air Power, Reconnaissance

David Patrick
7:45 am

Saab has presented Sweden’s first GlobalEye early-warning aircraft, the first of three Sweden ordered, ahead of a testing phase and its first flight

Sweden’s first GlobalEye has had its unveiling. Saab presented the airborne early warning and control

Air Power, Bombers, Stealth Aircraft

David Patrick
5:11 am

How 509th Bomb Wing B-2s opened Operation Enduring Freedom on Oct. 7, 2001, including a 44.3-hour sortie the Air Force called the longest combat sortie ever

Forty-four point three hours. That was the length of one B-2 Spirit sortie flown from

Air Power

David Patrick
5:04 am

The Navy has accepted a C-130J-30 from Lockheed Martin that will become an E-130J Phoenix II, its future TACAMO aircraft for airborne nuclear command-and-control support

MARIETTA, Ga. — A C-130J-30 Super Hercules rolled into Navy hands at Lockheed Martin’s Marietta

Air Power, Reconnaissance

David Patrick
12:00 pm

How the CIA’s A-12 OXCART, designed to cruise at Mach 3.2 at 90,000 feet, flew 29 missions over East Asia before it was retired in 1968

A sustained Mach 3.2 at 90,000 feet was the design specification the CIA set for

Air Power, Fighter Jets

David Patrick
6:30 am

A Navy F-35C has made the type’s first arrested landing aboard a Ford-class carrier, trapping on the future USS John F. Kennedy in the western Atlantic on Oct. 13

An F-35C Lightning II from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 (VX-23) caught a wire

Air Power, Reconnaissance

David Patrick
11:30 am

In Operation Sun Run on Nov. 27, 1957, Air Force RF-101C Voodoos refueled by KC-135 tankers set three transcontinental speed records

Three hours, 7 minutes and 43.63 seconds: that was 1st Lt. Gustav Klatt’s time from

Air Power, Drones

David Patrick
10:00 am

General Atomics says Arizona will become the first state to set up an Army National Guard drone unit with Gray Eagle 25Ms, and eight of the aircraft are due in September 2027

Arizona’s Army National Guard is set to be the first state force to stand up