[caption id="attachment_12897" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Dr. Richard Weitz (Credit: The Hudson Institute)"][/caption] By Dr. Richard Weitz 01/02/2011 - In recent years, the main form of U.S. military operation in Pakistan, Yemen, and other terrorist havens has been the missiles launched from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). These remotely piloted armed drones are…
[caption id="attachment_14105" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="UAV Crash (Credit: http://deepbluehorizon.blogspot.com/2009/04/no-one-dies-in-unmanned-uav-crash.html)"][/caption] 01/02/2011 - UAVs are key tools in the toolbox to support ground forces and to augment and or supplement manned aircraft. Whether they are able to operate in the contested airspaces of post-Afghan military environments or even the threats posed by a…
Building an Unmanned Cargo Vehicle: The Case of the AirMule An Interview With Rafi Yoeli 12/22/2010 - In a recent visit to Urban Aeronautics, a small Israeli company with significant experience in unmanned vehicles, Rafi Yoeli, CEO of the company outlined their basic cargo UAV offerings, built around variants of…
An Update on the Osprey From New River (VIII) [download PDF of full report] An Interview With Master Sgt. Jeremy Kirk 12/21/2010 - Master Sgt. Jeremy Kirk discussed his experience with maintaining the V-22. As an experience CH-46 maintainer he underscored that the Corps had decades of experience maintaining this…
An Update on the Osprey from New River (VII) [download PDF of full report] From Supply Of Parts To Battle Damage Repair: The Challenge Of Components' Reliability An Interview With Lieutenant Colonel Garcia 12/09/2010 - This is the second part of the interview with Lieutenant Colonel Garcia with both Iraq…
Will The Afghan National Army (ANA) Be Able to Sustain Itself Once Western Troops Depart? By Olivier Azpitarte
[email protected] Olivier is a former Foreign Legion officer and a Paris-based multimedia reporter: he is part of the SLD team since June 2010 as a reporter. Below are his findings based on…
An Update on the Osprey from New River (VI) An Interview With Corporal Warshek And Sergeant Fante 11/28/2010 - Second Line of Defense in late August 2010 talked to Osprey maintainers at New River Air Station. One theme, which was discussed, was the challenge of maintaining the aircraft in the…
An Update from New River (V) [download PDF of full report] An Interview With Lieutenant-Colonel Garcia on the Osprey in Iraq and Afghanistan 11/18/2010 - Lieutenant-Colonel Garcia discussed his time in Iraq and Afghanistan involving both rotorcraft and the Osprey. The tiltrotor craft was used differently in the two countries…
