Here’s British comedy duo John Bird and John Fortune’s hilarious take on the U.K.‘s recent defense cuts defense dilemmas (it’s three years old but still very relevant). They pay particular attention to the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers and the F-35s the ships will someday carry. Not always 100 percent accurate, but funny nonetheless. What will […]
From the monthly archives:
October 2010
Flight Global’s Steve Trimble is at it again today. He’s got a great and simple breakdown of the tech differences between the air superiority rock star F-22 Raptor and its jack of all trades 5th generation cousin, the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. Most interesting is his listing of the software and sensor differences between the two […]
The Air Force introduced a flurry of changes recently to its request for information on what types of choppers industry can provide to replace the current crop of 112 overworked HH-60 Pave Hawk combat search and rescue helicopters. Most obvious is a change made on Oct. 27 requiring proposed aircraft to be “capable of sustaining 125 knots true air speed” while flying at […]
Ok, not really. However, the usually unseen chief of Britain’s foreign spy agency, MI6, is on a PR campaign of late, making a rare appearance before journalists this week espousing the merits of secrecy and denying that the Brits get any info from torture. While one appearance doesn’t normally qualify as a media blitz, it just might for the notoriously […]
It looks like the trend toward taking vintage aircraft designs and installing a few modern gadgets and guns on them is starting to grow. While roaming the halls of the Association of the U.S. Army’s massive conference in D.C. yesterday, a colleague took me over to ATK’s booth where among the guns and rockets […]
