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?
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.
Lightweight armor could have all sorts of interesting uses.
It appears that the US Space Force is more open to the use of reusable rockets to launch their sensitive payloads. This makes sense given that SpaceX has proven the reliability of such items. Hopefully this will lower the cost of our operations. (post in memory of Mike Nofsinger)
Australia and India are committing to closer joint military cooperation. Both countries realize the danger the CCP represents. Taking these steps now may prevent worse problems later.
This is way cool. I know I’ve blogged about this technology before. I think this type of technology will lead us more quickly to the use of robots in combat to avoid casualties.
I posted earlier about this story here. It turns out the person that was killed was a local business owner whose business was next to where the crowd had gathered. From the story it appears that the police have a suspect in the initial shooting, but don’t know how or who shot the business owner.
Looks like the Russians and Chinese aren’t the only ones flexing a little muscle. Everybody stay frosty.
