An Interview With Lieutenant-Colonel Berke "The joint operational role for the Raptor is significant. I'd say 80% of our funded testing since I've been here in the last two years in some way, shape, or form involves integration; whether it's integration with other airplanes like F-18s, F-15s and 16s, or…
A Conversation with General Corley About the Future of Air Power "In my mind, I think enduring capabilities for a Combat Air Force is, first, the ability to dissuade and deter, and I probably think I would add the word reassure. I think we are missing the point if we…
In the dynamic and fluid conditions of the defense business in the second decade of the 21st century, governments and industry and working through a variety of approaches and business models to shape capabilities for US and allied forces. One such example is the Watchkeeper program.
In meetings during our visit to TRANSCOM spring, TRANSCOM officials explained how they addressed the Haiti mission.... the nature of an aid effort to an earthquake ravaged country like Haiti was fluid with requirements in flux. And highlighted throughout the interview were the multiple military aid assets, which were being…
An Interview With Captain Lance Bardo, Commanding Officer of the USCGC Waesche "This asset is large enough with enough capability built into it actually to manage your response I mean that literally; we have nothing else in the Coast Guard or the Navy for that matter to manage domestic response…
By Dr. Richard Weitz A major attraction-getter at this week’s Farnborough International Air Show, the biennial aviation event in southern England at which representatives from SLD attended, was a video displaying a laser weapon downing four unmanned aerial vehicles flying over the water. The tests represented the first time that…
An Interview With Peter Scoffham "why did we go for a turbo prop rather than a turbo fan? And of course, the simple answer is that today’s turbo prop technology now allows an extremely powerful engine to be built, enabling equivalent high cruise altitudes and almost equivalenthigh cruise speeds as…
By Richard Weitz One of the challenges General David Petraeus, U.S. Army, faces as the newly appointed commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan is the failure of past efforts to induce many of the Taliban guerrillas to defect and some of the Taliban leaders to negotiate a peace…
