The B-1 bomber, that Carter-era relic originally designed to fly low and fast to evade Soviet air defenses, has added itself to the ever-growing laundry list of platforms used in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn. Rapid City Journal (hometown paper for Ellsworth AFB, where your humble scribe has stopped to gas-up Tomcats (that Nixon-era relic) a […]
From the monthly archives:
March 2011
Coming on the heels of administration leaks that the CIA’s special activities division operators (maybe even sheep-dipped CAG kickers) have been spooled up to go put some kind of cerebral guidance system on the herd of cats that is the fighting arm of the Libyan “Transitional National Council,” we saw this report from a tres ballsy […]
J. Robert Oppenheimer was doubtless a smart guy, given his critical role in developing the Atomic Bomb. But it turns out the place he selected to design and build the bomb – now grown into the major Los Alamos National Laboratory – is over a fault line. That piece of info was dropped almost in […]
Your boy John Reed (who’s filling in for a recently departed Colin Clark at DoD Buzz) reported this morning the real reason why the much-baleyhooed and (pricey) F-22 Raptor wasn’t deployed to the retro-1990s No-Fly Zone op over our 1980s enemy Libya. Answer: It was too far away (guarding against Russian bombers puttering their way […]
Ouch…what a pickel the UK Ministry of Defense is in. A Telegraph story quoted British Air Force sources as saying that training of new pilots had to be suspended because the Libya NFZ tipped the balance when added to other world committments. A report in the Daily Telegraph quoted RAF sources as saying that […]
