12/06/2016: PACIFIC OCEAN (NOV. 17, 2016) The F-35 Lightning II Pax River Integrated Test Force (ITF) wrapped up its third and final developmental test phase (DT-III) of the F-35B Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing (STOVL) variant aboard amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) on November 17. The Pax River ITF’s…
2016-11-29 By Robbin Laird The Airbus tanker is the only advanced tanker in operations and has been so for several years. Airbus Defence and Space has sold tankers to a number of countries and has done so in what one might call national or serial sales. Getting the tanker sold, and…
2016-12-06 By Danny Lam President Elect Trump’s 10 minute phone call with President Tsai of Taiwan was a watershed event that marked the great divide between the Kissinger-Nixon era of foreign policy toward China and the Trump era. At the beginning of the Kissinger-Nixon era, the US was faced with…
2016-12-06 By Michael W. Wynne Summary When the large scale computers became the rage of the space race, Univac, then Sperry Univac, and Burroughs reigned large on the scene. Within these companies there almost always was contention as they wrung out 'bugs' in the system. Hardware designers blamed the software…
2016-12-04 By Todd Miller “We’d always say ‘if its really a bad air to air (A2A) threat, get some additional jets up there, get some more capability.’ I have no pause or hesitation that this jet will dominate in an A2A environment, would dominate in a strike environment, dominate in…
2016-12-03 By Harald Malmgren The election of Donald Trump as the next US President surprised most pollsters, political leaders in both major political parties, and the mainstream media. Broadly based political unrest seems to have materialized in the form of a populist revolt against Congress, the President, federal bureaucracy, lobbyists,…
2016-11-28 By Albert Santoli, President, Asia America Initiative The Philippine archipelago of 7,000 islands and water passages of trade, defense and communications form a strategic crossroad vital to the security to the entire Pacific Region and the West Coast of the United States. The strategic relationship between the United States and the…
2016-11-28 By Robbin Laird We are in the midst of significant global change. The strategic dislocation of the Middle East, the Putin Russian revival, the Brexit dynamic, the Euro crisis, the German migrant opening at the middle of Europe, the Chinese power grab, the Chinese economic malaise, the Japanese power…
