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B-2 crash report: Hydraulic failure led to landing gear collapse, fire

A hydraulic system failure caused a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber’s landing gear to collapse in 2022, which sparked a ferocious fire that led to the aircraft’s retirement, an accident investigation board found. The accident investigation report, which the Air Force released Tuesday, also faulted a design flaw with the B-2’s landing gear and a firefighter commander’s mistaken decision not to…
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Cummings fine-tunes Hellhound drone for Golden Dome mission

Cummings Aerospace unveiled a variant of its Hellhound drone designed to meet homeland defense missions at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama, this week. The company is taking its S3 variant and beefing it up into a new S4 variant to take on air…
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Meloni presses Leonardo, Fincantieri on spending EU defense cash

Italian government and industry leaders are rushing this week to figure out how to spend a European Union-backed windfall of billions of euros in defense cash as Italy seeks to reach new NATO spending targets. In a week when most Italian politicians were heading for the beach, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni summoned the CEOs of state-controlled defense firms Leonardo and Fincantieri on…
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Air Force moves F-16s closer to North Korea in new ‘super squadron’

The U.S. Air Force has begun transferring F-16 Fighting Falcon warplanes from South Korea’s Kunsan Air Base to Osan Air Base, located about 80 miles closer to the North Korean border. The transfer, which began July 31, is in preparation for the Air Force’s “super squadron” test, which began its initial phase last October. At the time, nine F-16s and 150 Airmen moved to Osan. The second…
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Space Force preps infrastructure, operators for target-tracking mission

The Space Force expects to launch its first ground moving target indicator satellites in the next year — but until then, it’s working to craft operational concepts and experiment with enabling technologies that will shape the future constellation. The service has been working closely with the intelligence community to develop a framework for managing a layered moving target indicator…
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