Maritime Domain Awareness Means Knowing What’s Going on at Sea
Maritime domain awareness (MDA) is to have knowledge about what’s going on offshore – who is operating there, and why …
Aircraft
The P-8A Poseidon Adventure: Training, Transition, and Deployment
The P-8A Poseidon’s debut deployment will be to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa with detachments all over the western Pacific. …
The P-8A Poseidon Adventure: Flying and Fighting the Poseidon
While walking around the P-8A Poseidon on the ramp at Andrews, we asked VP-16 commanding officer Cmdr. Molly Boron how …
Boeing’s New Apache – A Soldier’s Guardian
The Boeing Company recently released this video of the new AH-64E Apache/Guardian helicopter. After a decade of service in missions …
View From the Bridge
On Feb. 27, you delivered the State of the Coast Guard Address – what is the state of the Coast …
The P-8A Poseidon Adventure: Preparing for a First Deployment
By the time the parody-worthy screen thriller The Poseidon Adventure was released in 1972, the Navy’s P-3 Orion maritime patrol …
World War II German Helicopters – Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 and Fa 330 at War
After Focke’s Fa 61 experimental helicopter (described in Part 1) proved stable in flight and reliable in service, in 1938, …
Cancelled U.S. Aircraft Programs
Aviation is one of the most competitive industries in history. Competitive fly-offs – head-to-head battles like that of the recent …
E-2D Hawkeye Is Ready for Full-rate Production
In early February the latest version of the U.S Navy’s venerable E-2 Hawkeye was declared “suitable and effective” by Air …
B-2 Spirits Fly Far to Deter North Korea
On the contrails of the recent B-52 Stratofortress training flight over South Korea, two B-2 Spirits from the 509th Bomb …