Sen. John McCain Blocks Dempsey Nomination
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) has returned to his self-proclaimed roots as a “Maverick McCain” by demanding U.S. military and Central …
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The Air-Sea Battle Concept: Antecedents
As noted in the previous post, the Air-Sea Battle Concept had antecedents in the Air-Land Battle Doctrine. Given that the …
Boeing Pilot Tests Brand New F/A-18 Super Hornets
Steve “Bull” Schmidt, a Boeing test pilot, shares his experiences about what it is like to be the first to …
Interview with Rear Adm. Mark A. Vance, Commander, Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC)
Since the first military pilot took off on a live mission some 100 years ago, combat aviation has been both …
The Air-Sea Battle Concept: New Strategy for a New Era
The Secretary of Defense recently released the long-awaited document, Air-Sea Battle: Service Collaboration to Address Anti-Access & Area Denial Challenges. …
Book Review – The Race for Hitler’s X-Planes: Britain’s 1945 Mission To Capture Secret Luftwaffe Technology
By the time World War II ended in Europe, the Third Reich had introduced into warfare jet- and rocket-propelled combat …
Escort Carriers and Close Air Support
Escort carriers, nicknamed “baby flattops” and “jeep carriers,” were slow, thin-skinned, small, and cramped. Their crews, in a sarcastic reference …
The F/A-18 Celebrates 35 Years
Introduced in 1978, the venerable F/A-18 is celebrating 35 years as an integral part of naval aviation. The multimission strike-fighter …
First F-35A In-Flight Missile Launch
In this video released by Lockheed Martin, an F-35A makes the first in-flight missile launch, of an AIM-120 AMRAAM, from …
Tuskegee Airmen in Operation Corkscrew
Pantelleria and Lampedusa, two islands located about 50 miles off the Tunisian coast, were strategically located in the middle of …