By Robbin Laird In my last piece, I highlighted the cascading effects for the German rebuild of defense going forward with the F-35 buy. This has significant implications with regard to Germany’s choice of a heavy-lift helicopter. The F-35 is built around low observability and data fusion, as well as…
Recently, the Solomon Islands leadership announced a security arrangement with China. As noted by The Economist in an article published on April 2, 2022: "To the alarm of Australia and New Zealand, the Solomon Islands has reached a security agreement with China. The prime minister, Manasseh Sogavare, confirmed this on…
By Deb Henley An airborne E-3G Sentry, operated by the Airborne Warning and Control System, or AWACS, Combined Test Force updated its electronic support measures, or ESM, database in flight over central Texas with a file transmitted from its reprogramming center at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, using an existing beyond line-of-site…
By Robbin Laird At the end of February 2022, the German chancellor announced a new way ahead with regard to German defense and the immediacy required for upgrading German defense capabilities. Relatively shortly after that the German government announced a decision to acquire F-35s to replace their gaining Tornados, which…
By Pierre Tran Paris - There appears to be no problem in setting up flight tests of a French technology demonstrator for a hypersonic cruise missile in the U.S., the executive chairman of European missile company MBDA said April 6. “I am not aware of any particular problem,” Eric Béranger…
by Pierre Tran Paris - It looks like Kremlin’s bloody advance through Ukraine has boosted Europe’s resolve to forge its own operational defense and security identity. The European Union added Feb. 24 a redrafted forward to its Strategic Compass policy paper on defense and security to refer to the Russian…
By Flight Lieutenant Marina Power 24 March 2022 Flying at more than 170km/h, wind flowing through their open cockpits, wings held together by wood and wire, these men and women were daredevils, one might say, or simply courageous. But however you describe them, they all had a love of adventure.…
By James Durso The U.S. and its main Persian Gulf partners, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have had a falling out in recent days. The causes are both immediate and long-term and each party feels the blame lies with those ingrates on the other…
