Presented without comment.
July 11, 2020
July 10, 2020
Submarines: The future or the past?
If the technologies in this article ever get developed, then the submarine may have outlived its usefulness. This would be both good and bad for US interests. It would make one of the legs of our nuclear triad more vulnerable, but it also would mean that our CVNGs would be less vulnerable.
The F-35 and the NFWS (Topgun)
The F-35 is now showing up at the NFWS, which has caused them to upgrade their syllabus. Interesting article.
July 9, 2020
A-29 down
An Afghan A-29 apparently went down in Afghanistan due to mechanical issues. A US instructor pilot was on-bard, but ejected and was rescued.
Buried in the story is the nugget about US based training of Afghan pilots being wound down because the Afghan trainees go AWOL when they get into the US. Why would we continue to bring members of certain foreign military forces into the US for training?
July 8, 2020
Unmanned fighters
Looks like the USAF is fully committed to these. A 2023 initial deployment would be an amazing accomplishment and would completely change risk analysis in regard to kinetic use of force.
Now this sounds interesting
Lightweight armor could have all sorts of interesting uses.
July 7, 2020
Not every shot can succeed
Always disappointing when a launch fails to achieve orbit. However, the fact that we are making many more launches, means there will be more failures. Hopefully, Rocket Lab will figure out what failed and get it fixed. (post in memory of Mike Nofsinger)
One of these days
It isn’t going to be a rock 5 feet across. It will be a rock 500 feet across. It won’t be the equivalent of 165 tons of TNT, but 165 megatons of TNT. (post in memory of Mike Nofsinger)
