In June 2009, the Aircraft Sectoral Group (ASG) within the AeroSpace and Defense Industries Association of Europe (ASD) issued a thought piece on the future of European Air Power System...
Schumpeter, in his classic approach to creative economic destruction, watched consolidation in technologies and industries driven by natural forces until a secondary or new technology essentially destroyed the hold of one and created another set of competitive forces. The aerospace industry is barely one hundred plus years old, and here…
For a 21st Century Air Campaign the rule must always be ---go up against American Air Forces--- “you emit you die.” The Australian team has highlighted something very important.
With the announcement of President Obama's Surge policy in Afghanistan and the addition of 30,000 extra-troops in a six-month framework, a key question is on the lips: "how are we going to keep providing the equipment the troops will need once in the Afghan theater?"
The pressing need to modernize U.S. Coast Guard long-range assets has been discussed frequently in many different venues. But there has been less focus on the key issues of the other assets, which the USCG needs to modernize.
Network centric warfare has hijacked the common understanding of the impact of C4ISR. The ability to connect assets is central to effectiveness in performance of missions, and in a period where platform acquisition will be more difficult, the ability of the US and its allies to work together is increasingly…
General Walsh has provided a core understanding to the strategic shift in the use of manned air in the COIN environment. The shift is from shaping air around precision-strike to shaping air to provide collaborative presence... “The ability of the ground and air elements to work together to shape presence…
The maintenance team is at the very heart of the evolving Osprey enterprise. They are not the last cog in the wheel of the performance of the aircraft, but are an integral part for determining the capability of the aircraft to exercise its unique capabilities in performance of USMC missions.
