2017-08-14 By Todd Miller USAF leadership, international representatives and media gathered at Holloman AFB August 9, 2017 to focus on the USAF's OA-X Experiment. The event was organized under the auspices of the USAF Light Attack Experiment (OA-X) featuring the Sierra Nevada Corp./Embraer A-29 Super Tucano, Air Tractor Inc./L3 Platform…
2017-08-09 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake We first visited Fallon Naval Air Station in 2014 and produced a Special Report on the evolution of Naval Aviation anchored in part by that visit. https://sldinfo.com/the-evolving-future-for-naval-aviation/ As the then head of the training center, Admiral Scott Conn, who will soon become head…
2017-08-10 As the Pentagon reforms its acquisition approach, the ability to mobilize assets and to support them as was well as to accelerate modernization are clear priorities. But missing from the discussion is the allied dimension in terms of accelerating US combat modernization. The shift from slo mo to preparing…
2017-08-10 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake During our recent visit to NAWDC, we had a chance to talk with the leadership of N-10 or HAVOC as it is known at NAWDC. N10: The US Navy's Airborne Electronic Attack Weapons School, call sign "HAVOC", stood up in 2011 to execute the…
2017-08-11 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake The new variant of the Hawkeye has come to the fleet. The E-2D IOC’d with VAW-125 in 2014. And aboard the USS Theodore Roosevel, they completed a CENTCOM deployment ISO OIR. Then earlier this year, the E2-DE-2D as it is known arrived in…
2017-08-12 Mobility Guardian aims to enhance the U.S. and allied military's global response force by integrating in complex, realistic mobility training with partner nations. Mobility Guardian is Air Mobility Command's premier exercise, providing an opportunity for the Mobility Air Forces to train with joint and international partners in airlift, air refueling,…
2017-08-09 By Danny Lam The rapid development of North Korean ICBM capability exposed an apparent inconsistency with similar developments in other nuclear weapons powers. Land based ICBMs, by their nature, are physically large missiles.Liquid fueled, they are difficult to transport whether empty or fueled. Solid fueled ICBMs are less problematic,…
2017-08-08 By Ed Timperlake and Robbin Laird The USAF is looking to add a light attack aircraft to its inventory to deal with air support operations at the low intensity warfare end of the equation. And they are conducting an experiment to determine a way ahead throughout the month of August…
