I know this is a pretty old post but just wanted to add my 2 cents. I think we should look at our littoral requirements from existing capabilities from manufacturers with maybe requiring a part of the construction is done in the US or with US components. We do also need to consider how to deploy littoral combat assets…

Tyler, if we went with some of the already available true littoral boats from say Sweden how do you transport enough of them to a trouble zone to make them effective? It seems all our amphibious capable support ships could not handle the job. Is there a high speed dry dock type ship that could handle the job? But…

Never play another man’s game, that is something I learned from real gamblers many years ago. Also, when you know the house always wins you are playing the wrong game.

JP-8 is not really a lot safer than JP-4 it is just easier to use in lots of engine types. You cannot light JP-4 if you drop a match into it. JP-8 might not burn quite as easily in a crash but that is just not that big of a safety point. The chances of JP-8 saving you in a crash is just not much of an increased…

While I agree that much of what Sprey said is irrelevant Mr Rogoway has some inaccuracies as well. For instance comparing the F-35 air combat capabilities with an F-16 is just not accurate. The Australian’s did a good analysis of the F-35s shortcoming and found its flight characteristics very wanting. Also, the A-10…