An Interview with Pablo Quesada Ramos 01/19/2011 - The objective is to deliver a fully capable aircraft. After delivery, the Royal Australian Air Force will undertake initial operational test and evaluation. And then the objective is to have the aircraft in service before the end of next year.
An Interview with Randy Brown, Norma Taylor, and Wally Messmore 01/19/2011 - The Air Armament Center at Eglin AFB designs weapons for the U.S. and allied warfighters.... The AAC has engaged in innovation not only in terms of technology, but in terms of delivering capability to the warfighter during the…
An Interview with Major General Davis 01/19/2011 - And the Air Armament Center team has been very good at adapting something that was believed to be the perfect solution five years ago, to the entirely new situation of today’s combat. They’ve demonstrated an inherent flexibility, engineering-wise, test-wise, production-wise, to be…
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 contested air dominance environment, such as on the…
By Kirsten Ashbaugh 01/02/2011 - RFID, or Radio Frequency Identification, uses a system of readers and tags to store information about an object or product. The technology is hardly new; one of its first uses was to identify cattle and livestock. The system works when the reader sends out a…
By 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 widely known to be operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the…
Featured Article "There is a NATO working group (RTG-184), which was set up to explore and define safe ride standards for casevac via UAVs. They’ve visited our facility and are well acquainted with what we’re doing. Although Israel is not a NATO member, the IDF trauma branch has a lot…
An Interview with Master Sgt. Jeremy Kirk 12/21/2010 - "I can see significant improvements from '05 to now from just the experience levels of maintainers learning their tasks and learning the tricks of the trade on the new aircraft."
