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The Air Force has spent years trying to retire its aging AWACS fleet with the E-7A Wedgetail. So why is the swap taking so long?
K. BrennanThe Air Force's ground-based nuclear missile replacement has burned through budgets, rebrands, and deadlines. Here's why the Sentinel can't seem to launch.
K. BrennanThe B-21 Raider is flying, stealthy, and impressive. The Air Force just can't agree on whether it needs 100 of them or 220.
K. BrennanThe KC-46 Pegasus costs $50 billion to build and still can't reliably watch its own refueling boom. Here's why that's a bigger problem than it sounds.
K. BrennanThe Army's $1 billion Synthetic Training Environment promises to replace aging simulators with one unified system. So why can't soldiers actually train on it yet?
K. BrennanThe Army spent $1 billion and 15 years developing the JLTV to replace the Humvee, then quietly kept buying Humvees anyway. Here's why.
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