Japan F-35 Buy Is No Surprise
As the 1980s German synthpop band Alphaville proclaimed in their hit single, “Things are easy when you’re big in Japan.”…
Aircraft
T-6C+ Texan II Sale to Mexico a Welcome Boost for Planemaker
On Jan. 9, 2012, Wichita-based Hawker Beechcraft announced its first sale of T-6C+ Texan II primary trainers to the Mexican …
The Year’s Best Military Photos
Throughout 2011 we posted weekly slide shows of favorite military photos we’d come across in putting together our various publications …
North American’s F-107 Was the “Ultra Sabre” and Perhaps the “Ultra Might-Have-Been”
On Sept. 10, 1956, test pilot Bob Baker took off from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., to complete the maiden …
CV-22 Ospreys in Action
U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) CV-22 Ospreys deployed to Southwest Asia, getting immediately into the fight even before …
The E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Stays On-Track
A decade into the effort to renew and enhance the U.S. Navy’s critical airborne battle management command and control platform, …
Common Aviation Command and Control System
The Common Aviation Command and Control System (CAC2S) program aims to modernize the equipment of the Marine Air Command and …
Pearl Harbor: Preparations for War
In January 1941, Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of Japan’s Combined Fleet, used brush, ink, rice paper, and the rich flourish …
Multi-sensor Sentry
As of August 2011, the U.S. Coast Guard had 12 HC-144A Ocean Sentry medium-range surveillance aircraft and a dozen associated …
Air Force Flight Simulators May Help Cut Training Costs
Flight training is costly. The Air Force spends roughly $2.6 million to train a fighter pilot and roughly $600,000 …