The Aerospace Advantage

S5E263 - Fixing the Readiness Crisis: Better Training — Ep. 263

Published: November 15, 2025

Duration: 1:10:13

Episode Summary:

The Air Force is facing a readiness crisis, one that threatens our airmen’s ability to prevail in a peer conflict. A key constraint is the inability to accurately replicate advanced adversary capabilities on open air, live fly ranges. Between constrained physical range space, electromagnetic spectrum challenges, and operational security, it’s tough. However, we must do better. As the saying goes, we must train like we fight, or we may lose in the next war. That’s why live...

Fixing the Readiness Crisis: Better Training — Ep. 263 - The Aerospace Advantage