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Marines reopen second WWII-era airfield to prep for future combat
The opening of the North Carolina airfield follows the service’s June recertification of an airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu.
By Todd South
Best pics of the week: March 8, 2020
Exercises from the Alaska to Thailand and everywhere in between in this week's best photos from around the military.
F-35 program head pushes back on Elon Musk’s critique of the Joint Strike Fighter
Unsurprisingly, some defense officials disagree with the SpaceX founder's opinion that the F-35 needs a direct competitor.
By Valerie Insinna
Meet the Air Force’s first female F-35 demonstration team pilot
“As a previous F-22A Raptor instructor pilot, she’s flown and instructed in 5th gen fighters her entire career.”
Capable security partners are more important than increased payments
U.S. national security is enhanced when its partners around the world are not only willing to spend their own resources on the right military capabilities, but are also willing to serve as the first-line of defense for their people, says the author of this commentary.
By Daniel R. DePetris
Congress is ultimately to blame for F-35 fiasco
Instead of withholding money until systemic problems have been resolved, legislators have routinely provided funding levels that far exceed the amounts requested by the Pentagon.
By Sean Kennedy
Sorry, Elon, fighter pilots will fly and fight for a long time
An executive at the Mitchell Institute pushes back after Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, said the era of fighter jets is coming to an end.
By Douglas Birkey
The quest to recover one Vietnam-era Air Force pilot lost in Lake Huron crash
On June 13, 1966, U.S. Air Force Maj. William J. Vinopal climbed into his Convair F-106A Delta Dart, a single-seat, flight interceptor aircraft, for a routine training mission over the lake. It would turn out to be his last flight. Now, over 50 years later, a group of veterans is on a mission to locate the wreckage and recover Vinopal’s remains.
By Dylan Gresik
Best pics of the week: March 1, 2020
Drinking snake blood at Exercise Cobra Gold, freestyle drill routines, the agreement that may result in all foreign troops leaving Afghanistan, and more of this week's best military photos.
Air Force, SpaceX to test Starlink capabilities in upcoming live-fire demonstration
The April 8 event will be the next iteration of the military’s Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) exercises, taking place at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, and Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. The demonstration will test the military's interoperability with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellations.
By Dylan Gresik
Here is the first thing the Air Force would fund if it had more money in FY21
Congress is going to have to step in if it wants the Air Force to make a Skyborg prototype this year.
By Valerie Insinna