By Todd Miller As has been widely reported, the conclusion of the Light Attack Experiment (LAE) resulted in orders for only a couple each of Sierra Nevada/Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucanos and Textron Aviation Defense’s Beechcraft AT-6 Wolverines. However, the USAF decision to be the launch customer of the AT-6E —…
By Robbin Laird Living Inside the Beltway, one would clearly miss how to understand how the Romeo helicopter, a variant of the Seahawk helicopter, in expanding the envelope of fleet defense, was itself part of how one might reconsider the way ahead for the fleet. The Romeo is the successor…
Marines assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) and Sailors assigned to the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group (BATARG) execute various training evolutions May 13, 2020. The Bataan Amphibious Ready Group with embarked 26th MEU are conducting non-live fire and live-fire routine sustainment training in the United Arab Emirates to…
By Robbin Laird For some, the shift from using kill web instead of the kill chain is a variant of wordsmithing. But it is not. I have worked on fifth generation aircraft since the mid-2000s and certainly understood what an impact a data rich aircraft flying as a fleet would…
By Babak Taghvaee Correspondent to the Greek publications PTISI & DIASTIMA Preparations for the Flypasts of Bastille Day Parade The French Ministry of Defense has planned to hold the flypasts of the Bastille Day Military Parade with 52 airplanes and 22 helicopters of French Air Force, Army Aviation and Navy…
iSeeYou360, a small business has developed a camera system paired to a near eye optic solution that allows the warfighter to watch their own six, remove blind spots, give full time situational awareness and allow them to be force multipliers. This technology has a wide range of market applications: Motorcyclist,…
As I have argued earlier, the Triton is bringing a whole new layer to the kill web for fleet operations. Operating at high altitude, the Triton is delivering area wide ISR data for dynamic targeting. Indeed, one way to look at the way ahead for the integrated distributed force is…
By Robbin Laird On July 2, 1776, the signers of the Declaration of Independence finished their work. The document was approved by Congress on July 4, 1776 and hence that became Independence Day for the newly forged United States of America. The two youngest signers of the Declaration of Independence…
