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From Slogan to Standard: How the Pentagon Should Define Affordable Mass
War on the Rocks — 2026-04-27T08:00:51+00:00
The term “affordable mass” entered public defense discourse in 2021 as a munitions concept, which the Air Force adopted in 2023 to describe its effort to field large numbers of lower-cost, semi-autonomous aircraft to complement crewed fighters. The term has since spread in defense report...
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