Air Force Chief Gen. Norton Schwartz confirmed today what most everybody assumed would transpire, that the oft-delayed F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program will most likely breach the Nunn-McCurdy statute that requires the Pentagon notify Congress if a weapon’s cost is spiraling out of control. “I would say it is a possibility and maybe even [be] […]
From the monthly archives:
February 2010
I wrote a post this morning (see below) about this op-ed in today’s New York Times that says American troops in Afghanistan are at undue risk because of ISAF commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s restrictions on the use of air strikes. McChrystal’s aim is to reduce civilian casualties which defeat the whole purpose of trying to […]
An op-ed in today’s New York Times claims that the Taliban have defeated American air power because of Afghan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s directive restricting artillery and air strikes to avoid civilian casualties. The author, Lara Dadkhah, identified as an intelligence analyst with a defense consulting firm (you can’t swing a dead cat and not […]
Here’s a surprise, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the common operating platform for the Air Force, Navy, Marines, along with a host of foreign nations, has run headlong into further delays, stretching out the development time and adding costs to what is already the Pentagon’s most expensive program. According to the most recent Pentagon plans, […]
To blast their way through Taliban mine fields during their push into Marja in southern Afghanistan, the Marines turned to the Assault Breacher Vehicle (ABV), an M1A1 Abrams main battle tank with its turret removed and fitted with a dozer blade, a mine plow and two Mk 155 linear demolition charges. The line charge carries […]
