2016-11-29 By Robbin Laird The Airbus tanker is the only advanced tanker in operations and has been so for several years. Airbus Defence and Space has sold tankers to a number of countries and has done so in what one might call national or serial sales. Getting the tanker sold, and…
2016-12-06 By Danny Lam President Elect Trump’s 10 minute phone call with President Tsai of Taiwan was a watershed event that marked the great divide between the Kissinger-Nixon era of foreign policy toward China and the Trump era. At the beginning of the Kissinger-Nixon era, the US was faced with…
2016-12-06 By Michael W. Wynne Summary When the large scale computers became the rage of the space race, Univac, then Sperry Univac, and Burroughs reigned large on the scene. Within these companies there almost always was contention as they wrung out 'bugs' in the system. Hardware designers blamed the software…
2016-12-04 By Todd Miller “We’d always say ‘if its really a bad air to air (A2A) threat, get some additional jets up there, get some more capability.’ I have no pause or hesitation that this jet will dominate in an A2A environment, would dominate in a strike environment, dominate in…
2016-12-03 By Harald Malmgren The election of Donald Trump as the next US President surprised most pollsters, political leaders in both major political parties, and the mainstream media. Broadly based political unrest seems to have materialized in the form of a populist revolt against Congress, the President, federal bureaucracy, lobbyists,…
2016-12-02 The F-35 global enterprise provides an opportunity for leveraging collaborative efforts to shape more effective capabilities at a more effective cost point. According to a post by Endre Lundeon December 1, 2016 from the Norwegian Ministry of Defence: How international cooperation saved us NOK 96 million in 2016. The F-35…
2016-11-29 By Danny Lam The Liberal regime needs to be cognizant that Canada will always be a modest sized customer in the world arms market. As such, unique and irregular Canadian requirements and unorthodox procurement processes will sharply inflate cost and create long term issues of sustainability. Kludgey Canadian equipment…
2016-12-02 The Royal Navy is in need of new ships and more of them than can be generated by the normal construction process. A virtually untold story about the building of the new carrier in the UK is how industry –commercial and defense – were mobilized in a very innovative…
