BY JOHN WHEELER As we remember the Fallen on Memorial Day, we should be concerned lest adopting older COIN rules, where the ground troops are in equivalence with the insurgents, add needless US and allied casualties. With the tool sets which have evolved over the past decade, we should pursue…
SLD went to Pax River in April 2010 to interview several members of the Pax River test team. In this interview, Ed Timperlake and Robbin Laird talked with test pilot “Squirt” Kelly about his thoughts on the F-35 experience. [slidepress gallery=’the-f-35-pilot-an-interview-with-test-pilot-squirt-kelly-at-pax-river’] SLD: You’ve been testing the helmet and the plane.…
AN INTERVIEW WITH LIEUTENANT-COLONEL DEHNER "One of the new operational capabilities of the F-35B is its ability to sense the IR energy or the heat coming off the environment, a full 360 degrees around the aircraft. It’s as if you are in the middle of a soccer ball : this…
AN INTERVIEW WITH TEST PILOT "SQUIRT" KELLY "We think there will be a building block approach, as we integrate more of the capabilities into the aircraft and the helmet. We saw the same jump in tactics development in the simulator when we first added the helmet capability. We had to…
AN INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL GAVIARD "I would like to tell you about the very sensitive problems inherent to target designation as we experienced it in situ. Air operations have always been monitored closely politically."
AN INTERVIEW WITH JIM STROCK In a general sense, the capabilities that we need in the sea base are the ability to conduct at-sea transfer of personnel, equipment, and supplies between large vessels and maneuver those capabilities ashore via all forms of surface craft. The last time we talked, we…
AN INTERVIEW WITH CAPTAIN STANTON AND COMMANDER STOCKLIN "Sectors are alike organizationally, but because of their geography, the work focus is unique to each sector. They're all very different. For example, Miami is heavily counter-drug counter-migrant and cruise ship. New Orleans is heavily maritime safety, outer continental shelf, and river.…
AN INTERVIEW WITH REAR ADMIRAL NEFFENGER "What makes the Great Lakes interesting are a number of things. First of all, just to set the scene, you have internal domestic waters but they’re shared domestic waters of two sovereign nations; and that in and of itself is fascinating because international maritime…
