There should be little doubt by this point that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is an honest broker. His actions since he’s been in office suggest he has no personal or political agenda. He’s shown he deeply cares about the troops. So when he does a deep dive on the Air Force’s fighter aircraft requirement […]
From the monthly archives:
June 2009
…which should make our JSTARs guys happy, though the Sentinel –which is a battlefield tracker like the E-8C– is smaller than its American counterpart. These types of birds are of incredible worth in places like Afghanistan, where a high ceiling and effective ground target tracking capabilities are of extradordinary use to the grunts on the […]
From the horse’s mouth, so they say, German soldiers “are softies who lack discipline, hate responsibility and show an inadequate desire to serve their country.“ General Wolfgang Schneiderhahn, the general inspector of the Bundeswehr, told the German parliament that depite their positive contribution in Afghanistan, complaints from troops about their conditions were an “embarrassment”. “We […]
So, when does the civilian version come out? Paris Airshow — Israeli developers working on a ducted-fan flying hovercar say that a full-size, turbine driven unmanned prototype will fly “within two months”. Flight tests with a smaller electrically-driven model, they say, have validated their basic technology. The Reg flying-car desk spoke today with Janina Frankel-Yoeli, […]
Here I am being on TV a few days back (and they don’t let you on TV unless you really know what you’re talking about, as I’m sure you understand being good TV-watching citizens of the 21st Century and everything): – Ward
