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06/14/2025
We have a growing experience with drone warfare and its impacts. The best way to understand their impact is how they have already re-shaped combined arms operations. Notably when combined with payload revolution and fifth generation warfare operations, as seen in the recent Israeli operation in Iran, drones are becoming a key part of the evolution of combined arms. Analysis of the Ukraine-Russia war, Houthi drone campaigns, and Israeli precision operations provides insights with regard…
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Visiting HMLA-269 and 167: Shaping a Way Ahead for Marine Corps Light Attack Helicopters

12/30/2020Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 269 (HMLA-269) is currently commanded by Lt. Col. Short and is a squadron consisting of the AH-1Z Viper attack helicopter and the UH-1Y… Read more »

The International Fighter Conference 2020: An Overview and Report

12/22/2020Two recent DefenceiQ conferences provided unique insights into the way ahead for air and sea power. The first conference with the International Fighter Conference 2020 and was held… Read more »

The International Fighter Conference 2020: Capabilities and Focus

12/18/2020By Robbin Laird The International Fighter Conference 2020 provided insights with regard to the evolution of combat airpower, notably with regard to enablers and effectors, and pathways to… Read more »

The International Fighter Conference 2020: Effectors and the Evolution of Airpower

12/17/2020By Robbin Laird The second strand of the International Fighter Conference 2020 was the question of the effectors which could be delivered by the evolution of air combat… Read more »

The International Fighter Conference 2020: Enablers, Effectors, and Evolving Capabilities

12/16/2020By Robbin Laird The last two International Fighter Conferences, 2018 and 2019, where very different from this one. And I am not just referring to the virtual nature… Read more »

An Update on the Future Combat Air System: December 2020

12/12/2020By Pierre Tran Paris – Five options for the architecture of a planned Future Combat Air System were handed over in September to the authorities, marking a major… Read more »

Sustaining the Integrated Distributed Force at Sea: The Military Sealift Command Challenge

12/09/2020By Robbin Laird With the strategic shift from the land wars to full spectrum crisis management, the sea services face the challenge of prioritizing maneuver warfare at sea.… Read more »

What if it was called the CH-55? Transformation in the Vertical Heavy Lift Fleet

12/08/2020By Robbin Laird To the casual observer, the Super Stallion and the King Stallion look like the same aircraft. One of the challenges in understanding how different the… Read more »

A Media Visit to CVN-78 at Sea: USS Gerald R. Ford Working Cyclic Air Operations

11/26/2020By Robbin Laird On November 17, 2020, a small number of journalists, most from the local Norfolk based media, flew from Norfolk Air Station to the USS Gerald… Read more »