Fuerza Aérea de EE.UU. (USAF)

[14yellow14]

The Raider Comes Out of the Black

https://www.airforcemag.com/article/the ... the-black/

"The first B-21 stealth bomber will roll out of its California factory in early 2022 and make its first flight a few months later. The second, nonflying test model is also in assembly."

[Orel]

Bueno, entonces podremos verlo por fin... Aún estamos pendientes de que nos dejen ver también el demostrador de caza de sexta gen., jeje.

[champi]

Comienza la producción del T-7A: https://boeing.mediaroom.com/news-relea ... tem=130830

Recordemos que los simuladores comenzaron su producción a finales del año pasado: https://www.defensenews.com/training-si ... imulators/

[evol]

Como recordatorio, esta pedazo de fotografía:

[Orel]

Chula!

[yasiw]

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/f117-nighthawk-lax-california-air-force-stealth-15972698.php
Nuevo avistamiento de "ovnis" [emoji16]

Enviado desde mi EML-L09 mediante Tapatalk

[Orel]

Para tratar de frenar la pérdida y falta de pilotos, el ACC de la USAF sigue adelante con el "Reforge Experiment" aunque hay dudas respecto a la financiación:

Last year, ACC signed off on a concept called “Rebuilding the Forge,” or Reforge, which would shorten training by at least a year by consolidating certain training phases and keeping student pilots at one base longer. ... ACC hopes that, if successful, the program will also help reverse a yearslong pilot shortage.
https://www.airforcemag.com/acc-moving- ... -concerns/
https://www.airforcemag.com/article/ref ... -training/

[champi]

Sobre Red Flag 21-2: https://www.nellis.af.mil/News/Article/ ... at-nellis/

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This iteration of Red Flag will host 2,500 U.S. and international participants from a dozen states, Singapore, Sweden and seven NATO member nations. The 20th Fighter Wing from Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, will take the lead wing position as nearly 100 aircraft, such as the F-35, F-16, EA-18G, B-1, KC-135, AWACs, and HH-60 participate in complex mission scenarios against aggressor forces.
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[champi]

Turno para las interesantes "Orange flag" y "Black flag": https://www.edwards.af.mil/News/Article ... te-change/

By 2nd Lt. Christine Saunders, AFTC/PA and 1st Lt. Savanah Bray 53 WG/PA / Published March 08, 2021
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The rationale of combining the planning process is simple: Orange Flag focuses on technical integration and innovation across a breadth of Technology Readiness Levels, Black Flag focuses on the tactical integration of more mature technologies.
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This iteration of Orange Flag focused on two primary objectives: kill web integration and advanced survivability. Kill web integration included Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force sensors and tactical networks, as well as legacy and emerging JADC2 nodes.

“Orange Flag started three years ago with the intent to assess integration of warfighting systems in a dense threat, operationally representative environment,” said Maj. Gen. Christopher Azzano, AFTC commander. “It has been tremendously successful.”

A major Orange Flag success is the testing of F-35 and F-22 integration with land-based long-range fires, naval fires, and space-based sensors without humans-in-the-loop. Other successes include tests of multi-national F-35 and command and control integration, strategic intelligence surveillance, and reconnaissance integration through all domains.

This was the first official Black Flag since COMACC Plan 21 was signed in December 2020 to formalize the test event. Black Flag focuses on testing and validating Tactics Improvement Proposals, or TIPs presented each year at the annual Weapons and Tactics Conference. TIPs tested at Black Flag 21-1 included HH-60 Air-to-Air survivability, F-35 Emissions Control tactics development, and continue tactics development and evaluation for the F-16 APG-83 AESA Radar, among others.
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Orange Flag, Emerald Flag, and Black Flag work in concert as the “test triad” to provide robust test environments geared toward the advancement of Joint All-Domain Operations and the National Defense Strategy. These Test Flags are the premier large force test events which support testing of JADC2 and the Advanced Battle Management System and to validate new tactics and technologies for warfighting forces.
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The next iteration of Orange Flag, planned for June 2021, anticipates testing GatewayONE, Skyborg, and several emerging JADC2 capabilities as well as welcoming back our current participants. The efforts of Orange Flag, Black Flag, and the 53d Wing will be on display this May at Northern Edge 2021.

[champi]

Más giros hacia las arquitecturas abiertas (10/3/2021): https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contra ... e/2532691/

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AIR FORCE

Raytheon Co., Dulles, Virginia, has been awarded a $178,000,000 firm-fixed-price, cost-reimbursable contract for field support across the Distributed Common Ground System Enterprise. This includes transitional mission support from legacy to open architecture infrastructure as the system completes open architecture modernization. Work will be performed in Dulles, Virginia, and is expected to be completed March 8, 2026. Fiscal 2026 operation and maintenance funds in the amount of $2,300,000 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Warner Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, is the contracting activity (FA8527-21-D-0003).

Keysight Technologies Inc., Colorado Springs, Colorado, has been awarded a $38,423,360 firm-fixed-price requirements contract for the purchase of Versatile Diagnostic Automatic Test Station (VDATS) kits. The VDATS is an organically designed test station with open architecture and virtual modular equipment extensions for instrumentation technology. The VDATS consists of standardized, commercially available test equipment, components and software. There are two configurations of VDATS, the Digital Analog (DA)-1 and DA-2. Currently, these configurations support the A-10, B-1, B-2, B-52, C-5, C-17, C-130, E-3, E-8C, F-15, F16, F-22, H-53, H-60, KC-135 MC-4, MQ-9, Navy ships and UH-1 weapon systems. Work will be performed in Warner Robins, Georgia, and is expected to be completed March 9, 2026. No funds are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Sustainment Center, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, is the contracting activity (FA8571-21-D-0003).
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[Vorlon]

Primeros piloto de cisternas y transportes que obtienen las alas, volando solo con los T-1.

La UPT tradicional es un programa de tres fases que produce pilotos en 12 meses. El programa XPW se realiza en dos fases y los estudiantes se gradúan en aproximadamente siete meses.

La primera fase en XPW incluye estudios académicos previos al vuelo donde los estudiantes aprenden terminología de aviación general, después de lo cual los estudiantes van directamente al avión T-1, saltándose la ruta tradicional de volar el T-6 Texan II.

https://www.aetc.af.mil/News/Article-Di ... ation-day/


saludos

[Pathfinder]

La imagen del entrenador no se ve entera en mi ordenador, solo veo la cola, a vosotros se os ve bien?

[Kique]

La imagen del entrenador no se ve entera en mi ordenador, solo veo la cola, a vosotros se os ve bien?

El enlace:
https://media.defense.gov/2019/Sep/16/2 ... 9-0012.JPG

[ruso]

La imagen del entrenador no se ve entera en mi ordenador, solo veo la cola, a vosotros se os ve bien?

Si se entra en el Panel de Control de Usuario => Preferencias de Foros => Mi estilo, y se cambia a subsilver2 se pueden ver las fotos enteras.
También puedes pinchar en la foto y arrastrarla a una nueva pestaña.

[Pathfinder]

La imagen del entrenador no se ve entera en mi ordenador, solo veo la cola, a vosotros se os ve bien?

Si se entra en el Panel de Control de Usuario => Preferencias de Foros => Mi estilo, y se cambia a subsilver2 se pueden ver las fotos enteras.
También puedes pinchar en la foto y arrastrarla a una nueva pestaña.

Gracias, pero sigue viéndose en grande.