News Around the Web Hardware US Air Force fuses two wrecked F-35s together to build a sky-worthy "Franken-bird" for just $6M First-ever fully operational F-35 rebuilt from separate crash casualties By Zo Ahmed, February 5, 2025, 12:21 PM 12 comments
Electronics Hardware Spatial audio is coming to F-16 fighters to provide 3D sound in the cockpit Danish firm Terma secured the contract to bring the technology to F-16 cockpits By Zo Ahmed, November 10, 2024, 11:53 AM
Space Air Force to put not-so secret X-37B space drone through advanced orbital tests We know a lot about the X-37B project, except for its real mission and tech payload By Alfonso Maruccia, October 17, 2024, 8:54 AM
Trivia Hardware The U.S. Air Force used over 1,000 game consoles in 2010 to build a supercomputer. Which one did they choose? Was it an Xbox, PlayStation 3 or Nintendo Wii? By TechSpot Trivia, July 29, 2024, 11:28 AM
AI Tech Culture US Air Force successfully tests AI-controlled fighter jet in dogfight against human pilots But who won? By Rob Thubron, April 19, 2024, 5:20 AM 32 comments
Software AI US Air Force anxious to implement AI-pilots in fighter jets after successful testing The DoD says it "does not intend" to replace human pilots By Cal Jeffrey, March 10, 2023, 4:19 PM 7 comments
Tech Culture US Air Force pays $75.5 million for 25,000 sq. mile wireless network to protect its nuclear silos, share data The world's largest wireless ad-hoc network By Rob Thubron, March 7, 2023, 5:17 AM
Science Defense Department signs $65 million contract with startup that makes jet fuel from CO2 Air Force has already successfully tested and approved the sustainable aviation fuel By Cal Jeffrey, February 28, 2023, 8:08 PM 23 comments
Software AI USAF begins implementing facial recognition on some of its drone fleet The drones are intended to provide support functions rather than combat By Cal Jeffrey, February 27, 2023, 5:46 PM
Industry AI US Air Force to test autonomous AI fighter against a human next year What happens if we can augment a pilot's ability with a system that can have millions of hours of training time? By Cal Jeffrey, June 8, 2020, 12:29 PM 39 comments
The Web Industry Military officials say 5G is crucial to Space Force operations They also stress the importance of keeping China out of the infrastructure By Cal Jeffrey, March 3, 2020, 5:57 PM 14 comments
Science Space Air Force X-37B spaceplane spends 780 days in orbit conducting classified experiments Could this be part of the proposed United States Space Force? By Shawn Knight, October 28, 2019, 2:27 PM
Industry Next-gen GPS satellites are headed into orbit One of 32 GPS satellites gets a ride on a Falcon 9 By Greg Synek, December 17, 2018, 8:55 AM
Science Space Secretive Air Force space plane touches down in Florida after two-year mission Precisely what it's been doing is a mystery By Rob Thubron, May 8, 2017, 12:45 PM
Science Space SpaceX has plans to launch 27 rockets in 2017 amid recent safety concerns Launches scheduled to resume in March By William Gayde, February 8, 2017, 9:00 AM