2014-09-16 The arrival of the USS America in San Diego marks the completion of a two-month transit around South America from Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss. America is the first ship of its class, replacing the Tarawa-class of amphibious assault ships. As the next generation "big-deck" amphibious assault ship, America…
2014-09-13 According to The Nordic Page a Multinational F-35-Summit to be held in Oslo on 25 September 2014. This is the first time the leaders of the multinational F-35-program will meet in Norway. This happens as all nine partner nations in the program assemble in Oslo for their second JSF…
2014-09-08 In a recent Air and Space Power Journal, William Bell has argued that the adversary missile developments have become a revolution in military affairs in their own right. Certainly the last four years of US military service war games have shown strong indications that missiles not only have evolved…
2014-09-05 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake Second Line of Defense was launched at the beginning of the period for deployments of the MV-22. We have been able to track the evolution of the concepts of operations, and of the changes in the USMC associated with the new platform. As…
2014-08-29 The F-35 enterprise involves building new hangars as well as building out a new fleet. In part, it has been a long time since the US actually built out a new fleet of a large number of aircraft; and even longer when it has built a set of new…
2014-08-24 We want to thank our partner Risk Intelligence for bringing this video and posting to our attention. Fighter Pilot Films First Person View Of Flight Over Fjords GoPro-ing over Greenland. By Kelsey D. Atherton Posted 08.21.2014 Being a fighter pilot is a lot of work. Maintenance, years of training,…
2014-08-23 “Workhorse” Becomes First F-35 to Achieve 1,000 Flight Hours by Kenji Thuloweit 412th Test Wing Public Affairs 6/18/14 Edwards Air Force Base AF-2, the second production F-35 Lightning II for the U.S. Air Force, became the first F-35 to reach 1,000 flight hours. Paul Hattendorf, Lockheed Martin test pilot,…
2014-08-28 The Royal Australian Air Force or RAAF is in the throes of modernization. It started with the C-17, next moved to the Wedgetail, then to the KC-30A and will see the F-35 become its core air fighter asset. But RAAF modernization is not about air power; it is about…
