Imagine flying, along with 20 or so fellow aircrew, in an Air Force E-8C Joint Surveillance Targeting and Attack Radar System (JSTARS) jet for a mission to track down insurgents planting roadside bombs in Iraq or Afghanistan. You’ve just taken off from your base in Qatar but before you can go scan the ground for […]
The Defense Biz
I had a chance to sit down with Medal of Honor recipient SFC Leroy Petry a couple of days ago while participating in the AFCEA West 2012 conference in San Diego. Like all who’ve received the nation’s highest award for valor, his story of courage under fire is amazing. (Read more about him in Military.com’s […]
I was taking a peek at Lockheed Martin big defense contractors’ recent patent filings the other day when I came accross this whopper. A patent for a vertical take-off and landing aircraft with three wings and six tilting engines, notice I didn’t say tiltrotors. Richard Oliver recently told Aviation Week that a DoD customer was interested […]
So, just days after returning to port, China’s first aircraft carrier, the ex-Soviet ship Varyag, is putting to sea again. Check out these photos that supposedly show the ship making her way out of the Dalian shipyard for yet another cruise. Her first time at sea was a very short cruise last August, she returned […]
So, the F-35 Join Strike Fighter got a major shot in the arm last night when Japan chose the JSF to its next fighter jet. Tokyo decided to buy four F-35A conventional model JSFs next year to kick start its effort to replace two squadrons of ancient F-4 Phantoms. Last night’s news validates reports that […]
