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The F-22 Raptor: Program & Events
Into that good night(click to view full) The 5th-generation F-22A Raptor fighter program has been the subject of fierce controversy, with advocates and detractors aplenty. On the one hand, the...
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Airfields Afloat: The USA’s New Gerald Ford Class Super-Carriers
USA’s Nimitz Class &UK’s Invincible Class(click to view full) Some nations have aircraft carriers. The USA has super-carriers. The French Charles De Gaulle Class nuclear carriers displace about...
View ArticleRapid Fire April 3, 2013: Russia Ponders Vendor Financing, Exports Beyond...
Russian president Vladimir Putin wants to use loans to support armament sales but: “these loans must be based on market principles and not be like the loans the Soviet Union used to accord for...
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Switzerland Replacing Old F-5 Fighters with New Gripen
Swiss F-5Es(click to view full) The F-5E/F Tiger II was a follow-on upgrade to the wildly successful F-5 Freedom Fighter, a low-budget aircraft designed to capture the lower tier of the non-Soviet...
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CH-53K: The U.S. Marines’ HLR Helicopter Program
CH-53K concept(click to view full) The U.S. Marines have a problem. They rely on their CH-53E Super Stallion medium-heavy lift helicopters to move troops, vehicles, and supplies off of their ships....
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Australia’s Canberra Class LHDs
Canberra concept(click to view full) In May of 2006 the Royal Australian Navy announced its decision to expand its naval expeditionary capabilities. HMAS Manoora and Kanimbla would be replaced with...
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The C-130J: New Hercules & Old Bottlenecks
RAAF C-130J-30, flares(click to view full) The C-130 Hercules remains one of the longest-running aerospace manufacturing programs of all time. Since 1956, over 40 models and variants have served as...
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A Higher-Tech Hog: USAF A-10C Upgrades and Refurbishments
A-10A over Germany(click to view full) The Precision Engagement modification is the largest single upgrade effort ever undertaken for the USA’s unique A-10 “Warthog” close air support aircraft fleet....
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LCS & MH-60S Mine Counter-Measures Continue Development
Old school:MH-53E & Mk-105 sled(click to view full) The US Navy currently uses large CH-53/MH-53 helicopters and towed sleds to help with mine clearance work, but they hope to replace those old...
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LCS: The USA’s Littoral Combat Ships
Austal TeamTrimaran LCS Design(click to enlarge) Exploit simplicity, numbers, the pace of technology development in electronics and robotics, and fast reconfiguration. That was the US Navy’s idea for...
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Korea’s F-X Multi-Role Fighter Buys: Phases 2 & 3
F-15K Poster: apropos?(click to view full) The ROKAF (Republic of Korea Air Force) originally planned to buy 120 advanced, high-end fighters as its next-generation platform, in order to replace its...
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Singapore’s RSAF Decides to Fly Like An Eagle
F-15SG, armed(click to view full) At the dawn of the 21st century, Singapore decided that it needed a new aircraft to replace its often-upgraded A-4SU Super Skyhawks. This was hardly surprising; John...
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Import or Die: Taiwan’s (Un?)Stalled Force Modernization
Despite China’s ominous military buildup across the strait, key weapons sales of P-3 maritime patrol aircraft, Patriot PAC-3 missiles, and diesel-electric submarines to Taiwan had been sabotaged by...
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KF-X Fighter: Pushing Paper, or Peer Program?
KODEF ’11 slide(click to view full) In March 2013, Indonesia’s Defense Ministry says that South Korea has decided to put the KF-X program on hold for 18 months, while new President Park Geun-hye works...
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I Think I CAMM: Britain’s Versatile Air Defense Missile
CAMM-M/ Sea Ceptor(click to view full) Britain’s Royal Navy currently uses Seawolf missiles as the primary air defense system for its Type 23 frigates. They’re updated versions of a missile that was...
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Naval Air, Unmanned: US Navy Flying Toward N-UCAS
UCAS-D/ N-UCAS concept(click to view full) In early 2006 the future of DARPA’s J-UCAS program seemed uncertain. It aimed to create Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAV) for the USAF and Navy that...
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The F-22 Raptor: Program & Events
Into that good night(click to view full) The 5th-generation F-22A Raptor fighter program has been the subject of fierce controversy, with advocates and detractors aplenty. On the one hand, the...
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EA-18G Program: The USA’s Electronic Growler
EA-18G at Pax(click to view full) The USA’s electronic attack fighters are a unique, overworked, and nearly obsolete capability. With the retirement of the US Air Force’s long-range EF-111 Raven...
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CONECT: USAF Stops, then Restarts B-52H Communications Upgrades
B-52H CONECT 1st flight(click to view full) The B-52 Stratofortress remains the mainstay of the U.S. strategic bomber force, and in-theater combat communications improvements may allow it to make...
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Switzerland Replacing Old F-5 Fighters with New Gripen
Swiss F-5Es(click to view full) The F-5E/F Tiger II was a follow-on upgrade to the wildly successful F-5 Freedom Fighter, a low-budget aircraft designed to capture the lower tier of the non-Soviet...
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