The Air Force is headed in the right direction with its Vanguard Skyborg effort. By fast-tracking the fielding of unmanned aircraft that are designed to team with manned aircraft, that’s the path to getting the aircraft ramp at Nellis AFB to increasingly look like a blueprint for the future.
Three years ago, the National Defense Strategy Commission created headlines when they concluded: “The security and well-being of the United States are at greater risk than at any time in decades. America’s superiority—the hard-power backbone of its global influence and national security—has eroded to a dangerous degree.” The situation has not improved, especially when it comes to airpower. China is developing a broad range of new technologies that foreshadow a staggering leap over U.S.
Today’s Air Force aircraft inventory resembles a museum collection. B-52s, KC-135s, T-38s were acquired during the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations. UH-1s were purchased during the Johnson era. A-10s, F-16s, F-15s, KC-10s, E-3s, and B-1s were designed when Nixon was in office and purchased during the Carter, Reagan, and Bush years. Newer designs that are more viable today, like the B-2 and F-22, saw their production cut short far too early.
This latter course—doubling down on new technologies to bring them to the operational world as fast as possible—is not a new idea. In fact, it is how the Chinese caught up to the United States. Consider Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Hyten’s recent
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