Defense
Future Vertical Lift: The Army Could Field Its Next-Gen Rotorcraft Much Faster (From Forbes)
The Army has a plan to develop next-generation combat rotorcraft called Future Vertical Lift (FVL). Managed in partnership with the Navy, the first new airframes it will develop are intended to replace the tank-killing Apache attack helicopter and the workhorse [Read More...]
NATO Needs A Long-Term Strategy To Counter Russia (From RealClearDefense)
Russia has been at war with the West for more than a decade. Putin and other Russian leaders have made it clear that they believe the West started this war, employing primarily non-military means to destabilize the Russian government and [Read More...]
Alarmed Allies Prepare to Defend Against North Korea’s Missiles (From RealClearDefense)
North Korea’s repeated nuclear and missile tests have caused panic in the region. Japan is frightened because the ballistic missiles are flying over its territory. In addition, North Korea has threatened retaliation in response to military drills, stating that the [Read More...]
Five Reasons the Air Force’s J-Stars Rethink Is Dangerous (From RealClearDefense)
After spending years preparing to replace its Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (J-Stars) with a next-generation radar plane, the Air Force this summer abruptly disclosed that it wanted to rethink the whole effort. It says there are concerns about [Read More...]
How Concurrency In Building The F-35 Fighter Has Proven To Be A Big Plus (From Forbes)
As the F-35 fighter program has gradually retired risk and proven its potential, critics have been forced to resort to increasingly arcane ideas to explain why the program supposedly was a bad idea. Concurrency — the overlapping of development and [Read More...]
The Greatest Threat Today To U.S. Air Superiority May Be The Pilots’ Oxygen System (From The National Interest)
Today the greatest threat to U.S. air superiority may be something entirely different and, until recently, almost unrecognized by the military. The danger is hypoxia, a deprivation of adequate oxygen for the human body to function. U.S. pilots have been [Read More...]
Sikorsky’s S-97 Raider Could Be A Revolutionary Light Helicopter (From Forbes)
The U.S. Army has an urgent need for a next-generation armed reconnaissance helicopter, and Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky unit appears to have the solution. It’s called the S-97 Raider, and it is so much more capable that the Army’s current fleet [Read More...]
The U.S. Navy Needs To Build More Attack Submarines (From RealClearDefense)
The U.S. Navy’s fleet of attack submarines, SSNs, is one of the most potent military platforms in the world. The problem for the submarine force is that the need for attack boats is rising precisely as the largest fraction of [Read More...]
Air Force Rationale For Killing J-Stars Radar Plane Replacement Isn’t Credible (From Forbes)
Sometime this week, the U.S. Air Force will unveil its official rationale for killing a long-planned replacement of the J-Stars radar plane. J-Stars is a unique warfighting asset that can track and image moving ground targets through clouds, dust or [Read More...]
Why Washington Is Certain To Find Canada’s Bombardier Guilty Of Trade Abuses Next Week (From Forbes)
Federal regulators are expected to issue a preliminary finding next week concerning Boeing’s petition to slap hefty duties on U.S. imports of Montreal-based Bombardier’s C Series jetliners. There isn’t much doubt how the government will rule, because this is an [Read More...]