The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) has a damning report on the F-35B’s shipboard “Operational Test” trials…
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What could be the defining image of American naval power at the tail end of the Cold War, this photo of Battle Group…
What happens when you park a derelict Kitty Hawk Class supercarrier a couple miles off the coast of where an…
I'm an Air Force guy so I really have no idea how the Navy handles aging equipment, the AF just replaces everything. Note the F-35 trying to replace the F-16 and A-10 where both where perfectly fine the way they where. Give them an Avionics upgrade, a fresh coat of paint, and a smack on the ass they'd have been good.
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Our good friend and flying photog Frank Crebas was out in the Majove Desert at Edwards Air Force Base this week to…
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The USS The Sullivans got more than it expected during a test launch of a SM-2 “Standard” missile today. The DDG-68…
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The end of the end is near for the famed Avro Vulcan Bomber “XH558.” The aircraft has been flying in private hands…
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In terms of looks, if a DC-8 and a P-3 ever drank too much high octane fuel and had a steamy one-night stand, the…
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Four of the U.S. Navy’s gargantuan Ohio-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines, otherwise known as ‘Boomers,’…
A pair of RAF Lakenheath based USAF F-15E Strike Eagles that were bristling with live bombs and air-to-air missiles,…
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Iraq’s military seems unable and/or unwilling to fight. They have already lost significant military equipment and stores to ISIS. I don’t see the point in giving them yet another weapons system that they can not employ and can not maintain.
I think E. European allies for sure, Poland, Romania, Hungary. Some would love to see them flying with a Ukrainian flag while others see this as only a form of escalation.
Reports state that Boeing is looking at reselling refurbished and upgraded A-10s, many of which may be idiotically…
I have long maintained the biggest threats to national security are:
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34 years ago, the USAF set out to build a fighter that could guarantee American air superiority for decades to come.…
Did you read all of the piece? Try again, and pay attention to this point: “When protecting high-value assets (or doing its job in combat at all, really), it cannot always exit the scene the second its last AMRAAM is fired.”
Some may be asking themselves why the F-22 needs such a capability if it is so good at beyond-visual-range air combat in the first place. The answer is multi-fold.