[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @AirPowerNEW1 AirPower | MIL-STD AirPower | MIL-STD posts on X about air force, the first, acquisition, capabilities the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1632430921260617728/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX +57% - X Month XXXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +32% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +16% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1632430921260617728/posts_active)  - X Week XX +26% - X Month XXX -XX% - X Months XXX +140% - X Year XXX +24% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1632430921260617728/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.50% - X Month XXXXXX +2.10% - X Months XXXXXX +22% - X Year XXXXXX +48% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1632430921260617728/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXXX% [countries](/list/countries) XXXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [air force](/topic/air-force) #280, [the first](/topic/the-first) 6.67%, [acquisition](/topic/acquisition) #289, [capabilities](/topic/capabilities) #159, [takeoff](/topic/takeoff) 2.22%, [iraq](/topic/iraq) 2.22%, [at a](/topic/at-a) 2.22%, [ohio](/topic/ohio) 2.22%, [reduce](/topic/reduce) 2.22%, [target](/topic/target) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@heatloss1986](/creator/undefined) [@aviationintel](/creator/undefined) [@burnera82485769](/creator/undefined) [@jayhauck68](/creator/undefined) [@rydo111](/creator/undefined) [@champayatollah](/creator/undefined) [@planefag](/creator/undefined) [@chatling](/creator/undefined) [@lexnextdc](/creator/undefined) [@csis](/creator/undefined) [@willroper](/creator/undefined) [@usarmy](/creator/undefined) [@reaganinstitute](/creator/undefined) [@onotheonlyone](/creator/undefined) [@halberenson](/creator/undefined) [@stroonzy1](/creator/undefined) [@_star_tron](/creator/undefined) [@dawidaltexian](/creator/undefined) [@simmons_jay1979](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Raytheon Technologies Corp (RTX)](/topic/$rtx) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Raytheon has delivered the first #PhantomStrike radar to Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) for their FA-50 Light Combat Aircraft fleet. #GaN "PhantomStrike is a first-of-its-kind fully air-cooled high efficiency Gallium Nitride fire-control radar that is designed to provide long-range threat detection tracking and targeting.This year Raytheon completed a series of flight tests on its Multi-Program Testbed aircraft demonstrating air-to-air and air-to-ground performance and delivered a lab unit for aircraft integration testing in August" Raytheon" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1980714194207961440) 2025-10-21T19:13Z 21.3K followers, 6871 engagements "A U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber departs from Diego Garcia April XX 2025.(📸Anthony Hetlage)" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1996732317600264432) 2025-12-05T00:04Z 21.3K followers, 2958 engagements "Two U.S. Air Force F-117A Nighthawks hold before takeoff on combat patrol mission over Iraq on March XX 1998. (📸James D. Mossman)" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1996747262526111789) 2025-12-05T01:03Z 21.3K followers, 3603 engagements ""Collaborative Combat Aircraft #CCA approach is to iterate designs and capabilities as a function of time and based on the threat. The intent is for the CCA weapon system to be refreshed and updated more frequently and procured and sustained more cheaply than legacy crewed systems acquisition approach. The #NGAD CCA acquisition approach not only provides greater return on capability (e.g. lethality per dollar) but is intended to drive participation from a more robust and responsive industrial base. This approach is intended to invigorate and widen the military industrial partnership to" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1996906456818270400) 2025-12-05T11:36Z 21.3K followers, 19.7K engagements "Dec X 2025 - Beehive Industries has successfully completed high-altitude testing for its XXX lbf #Frenzy engine confirming readiness for flight testing in the first quarter of 2026. The high-altitude test campaign conducted at a government test facility in Ohio validates Frenzys performance and capability across the full flight envelope Beehive Industries" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1998370658003173715) 2025-12-09T12:34Z 21.3K followers, 2098 engagements "Northrop Grumman has delivered around 2000 fighter #AESA radars across the F-22 F-16 and F-35 programs on top of decades of work on other airborne AESAs. That is 30+ years of development almost XX years of continuous production and millions of flight hours of operator feedback poured back into its next gen. sensor programs. Not sure what Northrop has cooked up for #F35's new AN/APG-85 radar but it is probably something far more extensive than a simple AN/APG-81 antenna upgrade" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1991484660384252349) 2025-11-20T12:31Z 21.3K followers, 25.9K engagements "Northrop Grummans Advanced #Hypersonic Tech IMU just went 3-for-3 in flight tests proving reliable navigation at hypersonic speeds and enabling precise weapon targeting without GPS. It also proved reusable completing three shots in six months including two on a reusable hypersonic vehicle" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1995257912487502100) 2025-11-30T22:25Z 21.3K followers, 37K engagements ""The AHT IMU utilizing a resonating gyroscope enables warfighters to precisely put defensive weapons on target with speed and accuracy without relying on potentially compromised GPS. Built on Northrop Grummans experience in navigation solutions it offers industry-leading precise motion-sensing capabilities" Northrop Grumman" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1995258856956412322) 2025-11-30T22:29Z 21.3K followers, 6683 engagements "Today that plane known only as F/A-XX or fighter attack experimental is ready to go.Both Boeing and Northrop Grumman have flown test planes.Their prototypes are waiting in the wings; or rather in discreet guarded hangars most likely in Missouri and Florida #FAXX" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1996287940977177035) 2025-12-03T18:38Z 21.3K followers, 25.5K engagements ""Project Talon drone is about 1000 pounds lighter with a fully composite structure and has XX% fewer parts than its Northrop Grumman's initial #CCA increment one offering. That also equated to a XX% faster construction time" Breaking Defense 🔗👇" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1996534393561854373) 2025-12-04T10:57Z 21.3K followers, 4257 engagements "@Rydo111 Boeing did not even bid the MQ-28 as part of USAF's CCA Increment X. I am sure Northrop Grumman did not design Talon for the RAAF but rather to win production work for Increment X CCA or as a testbed for follow on Increment X design contracts" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1996538486187515947) 2025-12-04T11:14Z 21.3K followers, XXX engagements ""Project Talon was designed built and on track to fly in under XX months. The Northrop Grumman autonomous testbed ecosystem Beacon accelerated Project Talon testing its avionics software in real-world environments" Northrop Grumman" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1996729328084619414) 2025-12-04T23:52Z 21.3K followers, 17.8K engagements "💰 The Irreducible Principle of CCA: Field affordable mass for superior combat power The entire calculus surrounding the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) operational intent and force mix must be viewed through this lens. The DAF mandate is clear: deliver mass at a lower price point to dominate contested environments. This entire force structure model is founded on maximizing "affordable capacity" and "capability per dollar." This air superiority calculus is fundamentally a synthesis of "Exquisite but few" and "Affordable Mass". This has remained largely unchanged since this effort was" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1997355556286165321) 2025-12-06T17:20Z 21.3K followers, 10.6K engagements "Yes it is in fact self evident. It is an inferior capability. Period. If you argument is that they should shut up and accept it then thats fine but as outlined by more than a dozen ex Air Force chiefs and senior leaders it would not meet theater needs as an E-3 replacement. E-7 does" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1998038508535976325) 2025-12-08T14:34Z 21.3K followers, 1007 engagements "Australia will begin in-country production of Lockheed Martins Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) missiles in December following the opening of a new domestic manufacturing facility" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1997714343325241762) 2025-12-07T17:06Z 21.3K followers, 19.2K engagements ""Regarding the E-7 #Wedgetail this program is proposed for termination and as a stopgap measure additional E-2 Hawkeyes will be procured. However the E-2 is unable to meet the combatant command requirements for theater-wide airborne command and control. That is not the mission for which it is designed" Former US Air Force chiefs & other retired leaders" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1998003953934422296) 2025-12-08T12:17Z 21.3K followers, 19.1K engagements ""The Stand-In Attack Weapon #SiAW program is currently executing a Middle Tier Acquisition Rapid Prototyping phase. MTA will conclude with a production decision and potential future development for additional capabilities. The SiAW program.has discovered the opportunity for additional possible high-payoff capabilities for the SiAW if additional resources are applied. The Air Force will award a new IDIQ contract with a base ordering period of XXX years with X one-year options for Subsystem Development to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation to provide resources for tasks and scope that is" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1998533583372222800) 2025-12-09T23:21Z 21.3K followers, 14.3K engagements ""Beehive is focusing initially on test and development of the XXX lb.-thrust Frenzy engine variant. The XXX lb.-thrust engine will go into high altitude testing next and then well begin testing a XXX lb.-thrust version early next year. Both are targeting a 2026 production start" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1970139511683211694) 2025-09-22T14:53Z 21.3K followers, 2969 engagements ""Raytheon has delivered more than XX #GaN #SPY6 radars to the U.S. Navy and in all the SPY-6 family is set for deployment on more than XX U.S. Navy ships over the next decade. SPY-6 has four variants that are made from the same parts and have the same core capabilities. The difference is in their size arrangement and software programming" Raytheon" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1996177092933791909) 2025-12-03T11:18Z 21.3K followers, 14.4K engagements "A formation of four U.S. Air Force F-15EX Eagle II fighter jets assigned to Eglin Air Force Base Florida fly over the Gulf of America Nov. XX 2025.(📸 Blake Wiles)" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1996720521996628189) 2025-12-04T23:17Z 21.3K followers, 4428 engagements "The airfield lights are powered on and tested during the upgrading of the runway at Ellsworth Air Force Base S.D. Nov. XX 2025. The reconstruction project prepares the airfield for incoming #B21 #Raider operations. (📸Alec Carlberg)" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1997074201631478243) 2025-12-05T22:42Z 21.3K followers, 4279 engagements "This allows #F15EX to contribute in unique ways serving as both as homeland defense asset & as stand-off platform supporting penetrating 5th & 6th gen FA. AF is already executing this by developing long-range A2A & A2G weapons & enabling LR kill chains" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1997685548035797124) 2025-12-07T15:12Z 21.3K followers, 4232 engagements "The Army's "pre-prototype" tank is apparently debuting at the Detroit Auto Show. Critics are noting it's missing the final Tremor package of the prototype. 🙃" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1997729332421329220) 2025-12-07T18:06Z 21.3K followers, 8396 engagements ""The rigorous effort put into production is mirrored in the testing process. Raytheons approach relies on incremental testing that begins at the chip level in the #GaN foundry continues through circuit card mfg & extends into array assembly" Raytheon" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1996177850245022047) 2025-12-03T11:21Z 21.3K followers, 3315 engagements "The F-15EX consolidates unique Eagle/Strike Eagle capabilities on a single airframe for the first time. Pairing the proven APG-82 ADCP II Legion Pod and EPAWSS with a modern cockpit and OMS creates a mature baseline. This lets the USAF fast-track sensor enhancements avoiding the years spent maturing clean-sheet designs" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1997682990852325414) 2025-12-07T15:01Z 21.3K followers, 3548 engagements "Along with provisions aimed at preventing the Wedgetails termination.lawmakers would also authorize a total of $XXXXX million to continue the radar planes development and procurement according to a funding table included in the proposed legislation" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1998186471258288317) 2025-12-09T00:22Z 21.3K followers, 1964 engagements "A U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber takes off on a combat mission at Diego Garcia British Indian Ocean Territory April XX 2025. (📸Anthony Hetlage)" [X Link](https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1998904884905779224) 2025-12-10T23:57Z 21.3K followers, 2662 engagements
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@AirPowerNEW1 AirPower | MIL-STD
AirPower | MIL-STD posts on X about air force, the first, acquisition, capabilities the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXX +57%
- X Month XXXXXXX -XX%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX +32%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXX +16%
Mentions: XX #
- X Week XX +26%
- X Month XXX -XX%
- X Months XXX +140%
- X Year XXX +24%
Followers: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +0.50%
- X Month XXXXXX +2.10%
- X Months XXXXXX +22%
- X Year XXXXXX +48%
CreatorRank: XXXXXXX #
Social Influence
Social category influence stocks XXXXX% countries XXXXX% finance XXXX%
Social topic influence air force #280, the first 6.67%, acquisition #289, capabilities #159, takeoff 2.22%, iraq 2.22%, at a 2.22%, ohio 2.22%, reduce 2.22%, target XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @heatloss1986 @aviationintel @burnera82485769 @jayhauck68 @rydo111 @champayatollah @planefag @chatling @lexnextdc @csis @willroper @usarmy @reaganinstitute @onotheonlyone @halberenson @stroonzy1 @_star_tron @dawidaltexian @simmons_jay1979
Top assets mentioned Raytheon Technologies Corp (RTX)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Raytheon has delivered the first #PhantomStrike radar to Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) for their FA-50 Light Combat Aircraft fleet. #GaN "PhantomStrike is a first-of-its-kind fully air-cooled high efficiency Gallium Nitride fire-control radar that is designed to provide long-range threat detection tracking and targeting.This year Raytheon completed a series of flight tests on its Multi-Program Testbed aircraft demonstrating air-to-air and air-to-ground performance and delivered a lab unit for aircraft integration testing in August" Raytheon"
X Link 2025-10-21T19:13Z 21.3K followers, 6871 engagements
"A U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber departs from Diego Garcia April XX 2025.(📸Anthony Hetlage)"
X Link 2025-12-05T00:04Z 21.3K followers, 2958 engagements
"Two U.S. Air Force F-117A Nighthawks hold before takeoff on combat patrol mission over Iraq on March XX 1998. (📸James D. Mossman)"
X Link 2025-12-05T01:03Z 21.3K followers, 3603 engagements
""Collaborative Combat Aircraft #CCA approach is to iterate designs and capabilities as a function of time and based on the threat. The intent is for the CCA weapon system to be refreshed and updated more frequently and procured and sustained more cheaply than legacy crewed systems acquisition approach. The #NGAD CCA acquisition approach not only provides greater return on capability (e.g. lethality per dollar) but is intended to drive participation from a more robust and responsive industrial base. This approach is intended to invigorate and widen the military industrial partnership to"
X Link 2025-12-05T11:36Z 21.3K followers, 19.7K engagements
"Dec X 2025 - Beehive Industries has successfully completed high-altitude testing for its XXX lbf #Frenzy engine confirming readiness for flight testing in the first quarter of 2026. The high-altitude test campaign conducted at a government test facility in Ohio validates Frenzys performance and capability across the full flight envelope Beehive Industries"
X Link 2025-12-09T12:34Z 21.3K followers, 2098 engagements
"Northrop Grumman has delivered around 2000 fighter #AESA radars across the F-22 F-16 and F-35 programs on top of decades of work on other airborne AESAs. That is 30+ years of development almost XX years of continuous production and millions of flight hours of operator feedback poured back into its next gen. sensor programs. Not sure what Northrop has cooked up for #F35's new AN/APG-85 radar but it is probably something far more extensive than a simple AN/APG-81 antenna upgrade"
X Link 2025-11-20T12:31Z 21.3K followers, 25.9K engagements
"Northrop Grummans Advanced #Hypersonic Tech IMU just went 3-for-3 in flight tests proving reliable navigation at hypersonic speeds and enabling precise weapon targeting without GPS. It also proved reusable completing three shots in six months including two on a reusable hypersonic vehicle"
X Link 2025-11-30T22:25Z 21.3K followers, 37K engagements
""The AHT IMU utilizing a resonating gyroscope enables warfighters to precisely put defensive weapons on target with speed and accuracy without relying on potentially compromised GPS. Built on Northrop Grummans experience in navigation solutions it offers industry-leading precise motion-sensing capabilities" Northrop Grumman"
X Link 2025-11-30T22:29Z 21.3K followers, 6683 engagements
"Today that plane known only as F/A-XX or fighter attack experimental is ready to go.Both Boeing and Northrop Grumman have flown test planes.Their prototypes are waiting in the wings; or rather in discreet guarded hangars most likely in Missouri and Florida #FAXX"
X Link 2025-12-03T18:38Z 21.3K followers, 25.5K engagements
""Project Talon drone is about 1000 pounds lighter with a fully composite structure and has XX% fewer parts than its Northrop Grumman's initial #CCA increment one offering. That also equated to a XX% faster construction time" Breaking Defense 🔗👇"
X Link 2025-12-04T10:57Z 21.3K followers, 4257 engagements
"@Rydo111 Boeing did not even bid the MQ-28 as part of USAF's CCA Increment X. I am sure Northrop Grumman did not design Talon for the RAAF but rather to win production work for Increment X CCA or as a testbed for follow on Increment X design contracts"
X Link 2025-12-04T11:14Z 21.3K followers, XXX engagements
""Project Talon was designed built and on track to fly in under XX months. The Northrop Grumman autonomous testbed ecosystem Beacon accelerated Project Talon testing its avionics software in real-world environments" Northrop Grumman"
X Link 2025-12-04T23:52Z 21.3K followers, 17.8K engagements
"💰 The Irreducible Principle of CCA: Field affordable mass for superior combat power The entire calculus surrounding the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) operational intent and force mix must be viewed through this lens. The DAF mandate is clear: deliver mass at a lower price point to dominate contested environments. This entire force structure model is founded on maximizing "affordable capacity" and "capability per dollar." This air superiority calculus is fundamentally a synthesis of "Exquisite but few" and "Affordable Mass". This has remained largely unchanged since this effort was"
X Link 2025-12-06T17:20Z 21.3K followers, 10.6K engagements
"Yes it is in fact self evident. It is an inferior capability. Period. If you argument is that they should shut up and accept it then thats fine but as outlined by more than a dozen ex Air Force chiefs and senior leaders it would not meet theater needs as an E-3 replacement. E-7 does"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:34Z 21.3K followers, 1007 engagements
"Australia will begin in-country production of Lockheed Martins Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) missiles in December following the opening of a new domestic manufacturing facility"
X Link 2025-12-07T17:06Z 21.3K followers, 19.2K engagements
""Regarding the E-7 #Wedgetail this program is proposed for termination and as a stopgap measure additional E-2 Hawkeyes will be procured. However the E-2 is unable to meet the combatant command requirements for theater-wide airborne command and control. That is not the mission for which it is designed" Former US Air Force chiefs & other retired leaders"
X Link 2025-12-08T12:17Z 21.3K followers, 19.1K engagements
""The Stand-In Attack Weapon #SiAW program is currently executing a Middle Tier Acquisition Rapid Prototyping phase. MTA will conclude with a production decision and potential future development for additional capabilities. The SiAW program.has discovered the opportunity for additional possible high-payoff capabilities for the SiAW if additional resources are applied. The Air Force will award a new IDIQ contract with a base ordering period of XXX years with X one-year options for Subsystem Development to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation to provide resources for tasks and scope that is"
X Link 2025-12-09T23:21Z 21.3K followers, 14.3K engagements
""Beehive is focusing initially on test and development of the XXX lb.-thrust Frenzy engine variant. The XXX lb.-thrust engine will go into high altitude testing next and then well begin testing a XXX lb.-thrust version early next year. Both are targeting a 2026 production start"
X Link 2025-09-22T14:53Z 21.3K followers, 2969 engagements
""Raytheon has delivered more than XX #GaN #SPY6 radars to the U.S. Navy and in all the SPY-6 family is set for deployment on more than XX U.S. Navy ships over the next decade. SPY-6 has four variants that are made from the same parts and have the same core capabilities. The difference is in their size arrangement and software programming" Raytheon"
X Link 2025-12-03T11:18Z 21.3K followers, 14.4K engagements
"A formation of four U.S. Air Force F-15EX Eagle II fighter jets assigned to Eglin Air Force Base Florida fly over the Gulf of America Nov. XX 2025.(📸 Blake Wiles)"
X Link 2025-12-04T23:17Z 21.3K followers, 4428 engagements
"The airfield lights are powered on and tested during the upgrading of the runway at Ellsworth Air Force Base S.D. Nov. XX 2025. The reconstruction project prepares the airfield for incoming #B21 #Raider operations. (📸Alec Carlberg)"
X Link 2025-12-05T22:42Z 21.3K followers, 4279 engagements
"This allows #F15EX to contribute in unique ways serving as both as homeland defense asset & as stand-off platform supporting penetrating 5th & 6th gen FA. AF is already executing this by developing long-range A2A & A2G weapons & enabling LR kill chains"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:12Z 21.3K followers, 4232 engagements
"The Army's "pre-prototype" tank is apparently debuting at the Detroit Auto Show. Critics are noting it's missing the final Tremor package of the prototype. 🙃"
X Link 2025-12-07T18:06Z 21.3K followers, 8396 engagements
""The rigorous effort put into production is mirrored in the testing process. Raytheons approach relies on incremental testing that begins at the chip level in the #GaN foundry continues through circuit card mfg & extends into array assembly" Raytheon"
X Link 2025-12-03T11:21Z 21.3K followers, 3315 engagements
"The F-15EX consolidates unique Eagle/Strike Eagle capabilities on a single airframe for the first time. Pairing the proven APG-82 ADCP II Legion Pod and EPAWSS with a modern cockpit and OMS creates a mature baseline. This lets the USAF fast-track sensor enhancements avoiding the years spent maturing clean-sheet designs"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:01Z 21.3K followers, 3548 engagements
"Along with provisions aimed at preventing the Wedgetails termination.lawmakers would also authorize a total of $XXXXX million to continue the radar planes development and procurement according to a funding table included in the proposed legislation"
X Link 2025-12-09T00:22Z 21.3K followers, 1964 engagements
"A U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber takes off on a combat mission at Diego Garcia British Indian Ocean Territory April XX 2025. (📸Anthony Hetlage)"
X Link 2025-12-10T23:57Z 21.3K followers, 2662 engagements