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A highly encouraging step in the context of continuing Airspace architecture projects on both sides of the Atlantic, and encouraging as well for the "harmonization " imperatives of SESAR and NextGen.

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U.S. Reinforces Military Forces in the Middle East 🛳️📰 The United States is ramping up its military presence in the Middle East as tensions in the region reach a boiling point. Read more on our blog: https://lnkd.in/d35mMjvt #USAF #MiddleEast #Israel #Ship #ShipXplorer #Blog

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Resilient Naviagtion is a cornerstone for conflict deterrence and at SandboxAQ we are developing a dual-use product to support this initiative, called AQNav.

Attitude is a weapon system. – General James Mattis In every organization, attitude shapes culture. It’s not just about the tools we use or the skills we develop—it’s the mindset we bring to every challenge. A strong culture isn’t built overnight, but through consistent attitudes of discipline, resilience, and teamwork. Attitude drives how we face obstacles, how we lift others up, and how we push forward when things get tough. Whether in the military, in business, or in our communities, the right attitude is what turns potential into performance. Let’s never underestimate the power of our mindset. It’s our greatest asset.

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🔧⏱️🏃➡️ One of the United States Air Force's B-2 bombers has completed programmed depot maintenance 91 days ahead of schedule. Programmed depot maintenance occurs every nine years and typically takes 470 days to inspect, overhaul, and repair the bomber and its stealth materials. This time, it took only 379 days. “In the past, if an inspection identified a fuel leak, the team would have to pull parts and materials back off the aircraft, repair the leak, and redo previous work, often causing a 45-day delay,” the service stated. #military #army #defense #defence #defenseindustry #defenceindustry #us #usairforce #usaf #aviation #militaryaviation #b21 #spirit

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More wisdom about the way that changing times reflect the need for a new course of action. *Can* you go out and design a hyper-stealth, mega-sonic, ultra wham-o-dyne Super Aurora starfighter that can occupy every conceivable point in the universe and focus the pilot's chakra into a ray that causes an adversary's electro-chemical bonds to disassociate? Yes of course. *Should* you, in view of what the foregoing will cost in time, effort, human capital, e.g. building and sustaining the pilot corps, and (who's counting anyway) little old money? Maybe not if you're also achieving the effects you wish with new capabilities such as Collaborative Combat Aircraft. Spending less money on, yes, less cosmic individual new aircraft -- which you now can afford in bulk and still use to achieve and preserve air dominance -- changes some of the other inputs. So it's probably not that you don't need a new human-piloted fighter, at least in the extended medium term. It's that your new aircraft might need endurance instead of speed, payload instead of maneuverability and so on. Steve Jobs once observed that in the old days, every car sold in America was a truck. It had to be to carry farm loads and deal with unpaved roads, et cetera. Urbanization, the Interstate Highway System, new technologies and materials -- these made sedans, coupes and hatchbacks viable. Jobs used this metaphor to explain the rise of smartphones and tablets: not every American needed a "truck" desktop anymore if they could get done what they wished on a smaller and perhaps less powerful device. Autonomous combat aircraft such as CCA are changing the airpower business too. That's good for the U.S. Air Force and its partners and allies and it'll be good for the United States and responsible world powers. Change is change, though and it makes a lot sense to take another look at the old practices too.