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Editor’s Note: Exercise Coastal Predator is a two-week-long Large Force Employment exercise including almost all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces and designed specifically to test Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 533‘s combat readiness for future deployments. As we’ve spoken of extensively, wars are no longer fought autonomously, and ensuring mission success often requires […]
Editor’s Note: Although Exercise COPE NORTH 2016 just concluded, this will give you an idea of the DLOs (designated learning objectives) for the nations participating, as well as the large scope. Andersen Air Force Base on the Island of Guam was the host facility for the PACific Air Forces (PACAF) Large Force Employment exercise, giving […]
Editor’s Note: We have good friends who are “Gunfighters,” assigned to the 366th Fighter Wing, whose home station is Mountain Home Air Force Base south of Boise, Idaho. As we mentioned before, Combat Archer and Combat Hammer are bother a part of the Weapons System Evaluation Program, governed by the 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group at […]
Editor’s Note: When Northrop-Grumman won the original award of the U.S. Air Force’s Long Range Strike-Bomber (LRS-B, now known as the B-21) contract, the competing team of Boeing and Lockheed-Martin filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Their claim was denied by the GAO, and both companies have elected to not pursue any […]
Editor’s Note: The MC-12S-2, better known as the EMARSS-M, is a manned multi-intelligence airborne intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance (AISR) system that provides a persistent capability to detect, locate, classify/identify, and track surface targets in day/night, near-all-weather conditions with a high degree of timeliness and accuracy. The EMARSS system consists of a King Air 350ER aircraft […]
Editor’s Note: The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has been developing new tech for the United States Air Force. Since the X-15 program concluded, not much has been (publicly) done with the lessons learned. The most recent examples would be the four test flights of the X-51 Waverider, only two of which have been successful […]
Editor’s Note: More good things happening on the Korean Peninsula. Our friends at the 51st Fighter Wing are still building strong relationships with their RoKAF counterparts. As we previously reported, the Fiends (Harrumph!) conducted Buddy Wing 16-1 with a Korean Block 52 KF-16 unit. This time it’s A-10s from the 25th Fighter Squadron (Pilsung!) at […]
Editor’s Note: As we previously reported, one of the bed-down locations for the Air Force’s brand-new Joint Strike Fighter is at Eielson Air Force Base, just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. Once the Lightning IIs are at Eielson, it will establish Alaska as a bastion of Air Dominance. Between the F-35s and the F-22s down the […]
Editor’s Note: DARPA is addressing the issue of emerging radar technology with something they refer to as “cognitive electronic warfare.” Short version? Artificial Intelligence. It’s about recognizing the character traits and patterns of a specific radar and creating what is, in essence, a personality profile of that particular set. Armed with that data, jammers can […]
Editor’s Note: The U.S. Air Force’s most sought-after Remotely-Piloted Aircraft (RPA) in recent years has been the MQ-9 Reaper. The airframe has been an absolute workhouse, and the operators have been asking for ways to extend its legs and keep it on station for a really long time. General Atomics answered, and the long-winged Reaper […]
Editor’s Note: There’s not a whole lot to say this one. What are the facts? The A-10 is indeed the most effective Close Air Support aircraft on the face of the earth, and its pilots are the grand masters of that discipline. It is still a devastating and effective weapon in today’s fight. Even so, […]
Editor’s Note: Aiming a laser at an airplane is no laughing matter, ladies and gentlemen. We know you are all well-educated on the topic and ensuing dangers, but in the event you didn’t know, lasers can temporarily–or even permanently–damage your eyes. The results can be immediate, which can be deadly for someone at the controls […]
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