The Future Combat Air System: An Overview
08/05/2021The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) is a core initiative of the Macron Administration for both defense modernization and building out defense cooperation with its core Airbus allies, Germany and Spain. The Administration is committed to the modernization of their core combat fighter aircraft, the Rafale, for the next thirty years. But FCAS is designed… Download PDF Now »Taliban Reach Out to India
09/05/2021By India Strategic New Delhi. In the first contact with the Taliban after the U.S. ended its two-decade occupation of Afghanistan, India on August 31 raised its “concern” that the… Read more »
Working Integrated Fires in the Pacific: Col. Miagany, G-3, MARFORPAC
09/03/2021By Robbin Laird During my visit to Honolulu in early August 2021, I visited MARFORPAC for several days. I had been last there in 2014-2015, so had a chance to… Read more »
Exercise Talisman Sabre 2021: The Air Element
09/03/2021According to the Australian Department of Defence: “Exercise Talisman Sabre 2021 (TS21) is the largest bilateral training activity between Australia and the United States, commencing on July 14 2021. “Held… Read more »
An FCAS Update: August 2021
09/01/2021By Pierre Tran Paris – The French, German and Spanish defense ministers signed yesterday their third intergovernmental agreement on work on the Future Combat Air System, covering 2021-2027, the three… Read more »
Next Phase of Team Tempest
08/30/2021According to a story published on July 29, 2021 on the UK Ministry of Defence website, a new £250 million contract for next phase for Future Combat Air System has… Read more »
Shaping a Way Ahead for Training for the High-End Fight: The Perspective of the Former Commander of the 57th Wing, Nellis AFB
08/26/2021I first met Brigadier General, retired, Robert Novotny at RAF Lakenheath in 2016. There we focused on the coming of the F-35 to the base after the Brits would deploy… Read more »
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