Closing Australia’s Long-Range Strike Gap
ASPI’s Catherine McGregor has highlighted the concerns of two former air force chiefs that there’s an urgent capability…
Read More »Telescoping Generations: The International Fighter Conference 2019 and Its Look at Networked Lethality
When we argued more than a decade ago, that the introduction of fifth generation aircraft would…
Read More »Future Combat Air System: A Speed Race Between Data And Fighter
PARIS AIR SHOW 2019 Data fusion and the magic of connectivity have entered the show with…
Read More »The Next Phase of Airpower Transformation for the UK: Putting Team Tempest in Perspective
At the Farnbourgh Air Show last year, then Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson, highlighted the new UK…
Read More »French Air Force’s Renaissance
As the Paris Air Show gets ready to open its doors next week, one can only…
Read More »As Australia Establishes the Loyal Wingman Program: Is There a Role for a Sea-based variant?
Boeing’s ‘loyal wingman’ unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) is a fine example of Australian industry and…
Read More »Nigerian Super Tucanos
Nigeria will base its 12 new Super Tucano light attack/trainer aircraft at Kainji Air Base in…
Read More »Warlords Series 13: The CO of the Warlords as the XO of the Green Knights, 2014
During our visit to VMF-121 in Yuma as the Green Knights were preparing to work towards…
Read More »Warlords Series 12: The Coming of the “Newbies” to MCAS Beaufort
In a 2015 piece, we highlighted the coming of the first F-35B student pilot or “newbie”…
Read More »Warlords Series 9: Visiting the USS Wasp, 2015
A week after our visit to the Warlords, we had a chance to fly to the…
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