Vultee XP-54: Back to the Drawing Board
It would be unthinkable today, but during World War II the burgeoning U.S. aircraft industry was able to design, develop, …
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Welsh: Air Force Risks Becoming Too Small to Succeed under Sequestration
By Natalie Stanley, Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs Command Information
During testimony on Capitol Hill Jan. 28, …
DARPA Seeks Drone-carrying Airborne Mothership
DARPA recently released a Request for Information (ROI) on “concept feasibility, unique and enabling platform technologies, system architectures, concepts of …
Book Review – Area 51
There can be little doubt that Area 51 is the most famous secret site on the planet. Still unacknowledged by …
DSCA Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Top $30 Billion in FY 14
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced yesterday in a press release that it had conducted sales of $34.2 billion …
DSCA: Foreign Military Financing
The Foreign Assistance Act authorizes the President to furnish military assistance for the procurement of defense articles, defense services, and …
Coast Guard Retires Last HU-25 Aircraft
The U.S. Coast Guard’s HU-25 will fly no more. The service retired its last operational Falcon, also called the Guardian, …
Hunting the Insurgent Leader: The U.S. Army’s Search for Pancho Villa
Details differed, but the basic facts were the same. Shortly after the turn of the century, towns and American troops …
DSCA: Excess Defense Articles (EDA)
When items in the Department of Defense (DoD) inventory are no longer needed by any military service, after being vetted …
Global Hawk Variants Surpass 100,000 Combat/Operational Support Hours
Northrop Grumman announced Aug. 27 that two U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy Global Hawk and Triton high altitude …