Now, I’ve been dead set against the idea of spending money on an alternate engine to the JSF — seeing it purely as a jobs program for GE/Rolls and their congressional benefactors. And now it seems our friends from Av Week have added to the long standing Pentagon policy, quoting the program’s top official saying […]
From the monthly archives:
June 2009
One of the reasons I listen closely to Gen. James Mattis is that he is an avid student of history, and uses lessons from past wars to guide the work he and other folks down at Joint Forces Command are doing to re-craft operational concepts. Mattis says future wars will be of the hybrid variety, […]
The increased use of semi-submersibles to bring drugs into the United States has raised the specter of similar craft being employed to transport terrorists, explosives, and elicit funds into the country. But the likelihood of terrorists going that route is extremely unlikely. Writing in The Washington Post (6 June), William Booth and Juan Forero said, […]
The Los Angeles Times’ Julian E. Barnes reports that the Air Force “is preparing to graduate its first pilots of unmanned drones from the elite U.S. Air Force Weapons School — a version of the Navy’s Top Gun program — in a bid to elevate the skills and status of the officers who fly Predators, […]
Our friend, DT contributor and crusty aviation gumshoe Bob Cox has a great story running on Military.com today about the Air Force’s high speed new flight sims. L-3 Link Simulation and training has developed the SimuSphere that improves on the visuals and computing speed of current sims to make images at near visual quality, or […]
