U.S. Air Force Must Address Aircraft, Base Survivability, Report Says

An F-22 lands at a small airstrip in Hawaii as part of a 2021 exercise.

Credit: U.S. Air Force
For the U.S. Air Force to succeed in a large-scale conflict in 25 years, it needs to address its key vulnerabilities—those of bases to long-distance attack and of aircraft to emerging, long-range weapons, the service’s outgoing leader argues. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, shortly before leaving...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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