2015-04-29 The Royal Dutch Air Force (RNLAF) has selected the F-35 as its next generation aircraft. Indeed, the Norwegians and the Dutch are both planning to be an all-fifth generation fleet. Others might join them in Europe as well in this process. The Italian and the UK Air Forces will…
2015-05-01 Ed Timperlake, editor of the Second Line of Defense Forum, was the last speaker of the day prior to the wrap up of the Danish airpower symposium. The title of his briefing was “Early 21st Century Warfighting Trends: Technology, Training and Tactics,” and focused on the intersection of the…
2015-04-30 Dr. Robbin Laird was part of the last panel for the Copenhagen Airpower Symposium hosted by the Centre for Military Studies and the Williams Foundation on April 17, 2015. In his summary presentation, he looked at a number of changes affecting the evolution of airpower. One challenge facing airpower…
2015-04-24 By Robbin Laird This is fifth time I have had the opportunity to visit the first or early squadron of a new generation air system. I started with the Osprey more than eight years ago, have had multiple visits to various bases involved in the standup of the F-35,…
2015-04-30 The current Chief of Staff of the French Air Force (FAF), General Mercier, is on a visit to the United States prior to taking up his new command, as the head of the Allied Command Transformation (ACT) NATO, based in Norfolk, VA. In the roundtable in which he participated on April…
2015-04-30 At the Copenhagen Airpower Symposium hosted by the Centre for Military Studies and the Williams Foundation on April 17, 2015, Col. Bernard “Jeep” Willi, Combat Air Branch Head of the NATO Joint Air Power Competency Centre (JAPCC), provided an overview of the role and current work of the JAPCC.…
2015-04-30 Lt. Col. “Chip” Berke first met John Blackburn as a guest at the Williams Foundation Seminar in March 2014 on airpower. When Blackburn was putting together a follow-on event with the Centre for Military Studies in Denmark, he requested early on that Berke provide his insights into what the fifth…
2015-04-22 By Robbin Laird During my recent visit to the United Kingdom to visit the new large deck carrier, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, I met with Tim Gibson and Eric Bownes of Fujitsu defense, both based in the United Kingdom, and discussed the evolving approach. In the interview with Tim…
