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[SlothmanAllen]

At some point the Air & Space Forces Magazine website decided to upload the Air Force Almanac going all the way back to 1960! This provides a great resource of facts and figures and allows you to track the evolution of the US Air Force over the past 60 years.

One of the most interesting stats I found in browsing around the various almanacs came from the 1985 edition. This edition tells you how many aircraft they budgeted for and how many were accepted between 1978 and 1986. For example, in 1980 the USAF budgeted for ~400 (!!!!!) new fixed wing aircraft and accepted ~350 (!!!!!). If you look at the current environment, they want to budget for something like ~70 aircraft. What a staggering difference in the number of airframes acquired in a given year!

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[gelgoog]

There is such a thing called Augustine's law. As in Norm Augustine.

In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one tactical aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3½ days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day."

 

[siegecrossbow]

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[JimmyMcFoob]

DARPA dep. chief Rob McHenry believes that a combination of sensor fusion and track, AI and other techniques will render stealth ineffective as a total trump card. What he says in this article follows what some users are saying here about stealth in that it'll just become a necessary piece of the puzzle instead of the total gamechanger it once was. Stealth will be like a barrier for entry in the future; having it doesn't mean you won't die, but not having it guarantees you die against an opponent that does have stealth.

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[qwerty3173]

DARPA dep. chief Rob McHenry believes that a combination of sensor fusion and track, AI and other techniques will render stealth ineffective as a total trump card. What he says in this article follows what some users are saying here about stealth in that it'll just become a necessary piece of the puzzle instead of the total gamechanger it once was. Stealth will be like a barrier for entry in the future; having it doesn't mean you won't die, but not having it guarantees you die against an opponent that does have stealth.

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I'm a bit tired by all the quantum nonsense. Stealth can have levels too, and a hypothetical -55 db radar signature will blend into the atmospheric background in the corresponding wavelength, which I believe is close to possible for next-gen aircraft in the cm-wavelength band.

 

[siegecrossbow]

DARPA dep. chief Rob McHenry believes that a combination of sensor fusion and track, AI and other techniques will render stealth ineffective as a total trump card. What he says in this article follows what some users are saying here about stealth in that it'll just become a necessary piece of the puzzle instead of the total gamechanger it once was. Stealth will be like a barrier for entry in the future; having it doesn't mean you won't die, but not having it guarantees you die against an opponent that does have stealth.

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That has been known for quite a while. In exercises where EW is used even fifth gen get shot down regularly. Still helluva lot more survivable than 4th gen though.

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

Literal Beiyang Fleet vibes lmao

‘Excess’ Nuclear Missile Funds Used to Modify Trump’s New Air Force One

The Air Force diverted what it says was excess funding from its delayed new nuclear missile program to modify a former Qatari royal jet for use as President Donald Trump’s Air Force One, the service’s top civilian said June 26.

But Air Force Secretary Troy E. Meink insisted the move will “absolutely not” delay Sentinel’s progress, saying that money was “early-to-need” funding the high-priority missile modernization project didn’t use last year.

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[gpt]

If we look at the budget proposal and actual hardware, at this stage it is basically an increase in NGI sites and Standard Missiles. So you can divide the project up into two different sections:
- increasing the no. of existing kinetic interceptors
- advanced projects (SBI, SBL, ie. lasers)

RFI for SBI layer of Golden Dome is out:

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E-7 Wedgetail cancelled in favor of Air Moving Target Indicator:

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[Overbom]

DARPA dep. chief Rob McHenry believes that a combination of sensor fusion and track, AI and other techniques will render stealth ineffective as a total trump card. What he says in this article follows what some users are saying here about stealth in that it'll just become a necessary piece of the puzzle instead of the total gamechanger it once was. Stealth will be like a barrier for entry in the future; having it doesn't mean you won't die, but not having it guarantees you die against an opponent that does have stealth.

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So what will the subsonic B-21 do then lol

Speed part of the plane equation is going to make a come back imo

 

[TK3600]

Literal Beiyang Fleet vibes lmao

‘Excess’ Nuclear Missile Funds Used to Modify Trump’s New Air Force One

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When are we getting White House 2?