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Looking Back: Remembering Desert Storm and Looking Forward to the Renorming of Airpower

Posted on February 25, 2016 | by Robbin Laird
02/25/2016
Lt. General (Retired) Deptula looks back at Desert Storm and forward to the renorming of airpower.
Posted in Con Ops, Strategy, The Integrated Distributed Combat Force, What's New

Italian Naval Airpower: The Importance of Showing Up at Beaufort Air Station

Posted on February 22, 2016 | by Robbin Laird
02/22/2016
The Italian Navy going to Beaufort Air Station NOW and working with the RAF and the USMC might make a great deal of sense.
Posted in Con Ops, The Integrated Distributed Combat Force, What's New

Ninja Discusses His F-35 Flight Across the Atlantic: The Right Stuff Italian Style

Posted on February 18, 2016 | by Robbin Laird
02/18/2016
The first transatlantic F-35 flight was by an Italian with 50 flight hours on the F-35.
Posted in Con Ops, The Integrated Distributed Combat Force, What's New

The Need for Cultural Innovation: Lessons Learned from Dunkirk

Posted on February 18, 2016 | by Robbin Laird
02/18/2016
New capabilities without new concepts of operations will lead to strategic failure.
Posted in Con Ops, The Integrated Distributed Combat Force, What's New

Red Flag 16-1: Training to Total Force Integration

Posted on February 18, 2016 | by Robbin Laird
02/18/2016
New air combat capabilities are changing the face of the air battle, and the participating Air Forces in Red Flag are adapting their tactics to utilize their assets more effectively.
Posted in Con Ops, What's New

An Update on Red Flag 16-1: Air Combat Integration and the Role of the F-22, the Typhoon and Wedgetail.

Posted on February 15, 2016 | by Robbin Laird
02/15/2016
Red Flag is evolving as the services and partners focus on the need and capability to operate in the extended battlespace.
Posted in Con Ops, What's New

An Update on Eurofighter: Longer Range Missile Integration, An Historic Trans-Atlantic Flight and Going to Red Flag 2016

Posted on February 15, 2016 | by Robbin Laird
02/15/2016
The Eurofighter is being effectively modernized with a new radar, missiles and aerodynamic upgrades.
Posted in Con Ops, What's New

The F-35 Learning Curve: The View from Pax River

Posted on February 10, 2016 | by Robbin Laird
02/10/2016
These interviews from Pax River highlight the cross-service and cross-variant learning occurring in the F-35 program.
Posted in Con Ops, The Integrated Distributed Combat Force, What's New
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