Major news outlets are reporting that ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi has been killed by rebels today. See Military.com for all the latest. And check here soon for a NATO No Fly Zone box score and analysis on the net effect of western air power on this outcome. (Photo: AFP) – Ward
From the monthly archives:
October 2011
A few years ago I helped break the story that Air Force Special Operations Command wanted to turn twin-engine, C-27J cargo planes into a “gunship lite” to bolster the command’s fleet of aging AC-130 gunships. AFSOC was all about the idea for a while until budgeteers nixed the gunship lite proposal in FY 2010 and […]
As you know, the Marine Corps’ F-35B Joint Strike Fighter has been conducting short take-offs and vertical landings aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp for a few weeks now. Just yesterday, the F-35 program invited a host of reporters to watch the jet conduct operations from the Wasp. The B-model, once beset with cost overruns and […]
We all know about the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s wild infrared sensor technology, called the Distributed Aperture System, that will (someday) allow pilots to see in a complete bubble for miles around their airplane. If, and when, the system comes online, it will allow F-35 jocks to literally look through the floor of their aircraft by viewing images […]
So, the Navy is one step closer to fielding its newest radar ship the USNS Howard O. Lorenzen. Raytheon just installed 240-ton X– and S-band phased array radar antennas on the ship, the ship and its huge antennas will replace the 60-year old USNS Observation Island and its 1970s-vintage Cobra Judy ballistic missile tracking radars […]
