Lack Of Base Defense Prompts USAF Focus On ‘Passive’ Protections

A U.S. Air Force F-22 lands at a small airfield in Hawaii as part of an agile combat employment exercise in 2021.

Credit: U.S. Air Force
The U.S. Air Force’s focus on protecting its bases is almost exclusively on new, passive ways to trick potential enemies because most of the technology to actively protect bases is not ready or there is simply not enough to go around, U.S. Air Force leaders say. For the past two years, one of the...
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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