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Air Warfare

Boeing Wins Tanker Protest

Well, this just got more interesting… Agency Recommends Air Force Reopen the Bid Process Washington, DC – (June 18, 2008) – The Government Accountability Office (GAO)today sustained the Boeing Company’s protest of the Department of the Air Force’s award of a contract to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation for KC-X aerial refueling tankers. Boeing challenged the [...] [...]

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Perspective…

…at least Blue Ridge’s take on it: Now – about those sonar exercises… [...]

Flightdeck Friday

Flightdeck Friday – Fast Carriers and Their Fledglings

Some art and photos from the archives, bound together with a classic score – for your weekend’s pleasure. – SJS — — Sphere: Related Content [...]

history lessons

This Date in Naval Aviation History – Pacific Theater and Guided Missiles

12 Jun 1944: In the first deployment of a guided missile unit into a combat theater, elements of Special Task Air Group 1 arrived in the Russell Islands in the South Pacific.  (ed: and in case you’re wondering – yes, there was a Flightdeck Friday on the subject. – SJS) Sphere: Related Content [...]

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So, Skipper –

How’s your damage control training program? Is it ready to face the likes of what caused this damage? Ready for something that lasts longer than a standard GQ battle problem – measured in days not hours or minutes? Oh and about the PRT program too… —– Sphere: Related Content [...]

history lessons

Our Forefather’s Wisdom…

…in choosing a swampy, fetid pit of humours to locate the nation’s capitol was prescient – before air-conditioning.  It had to be since days like the last few (heat index +130 deg F) drove Congress and the balance of the ruling class out of town and in so doing, protected the rest of the country [...] [...]

Missile Defense

SM-2 Successfully Intercepts SRBM

SM-2 Intercept of SRBM 5 Jun 08 Aegis, Sm-2 Interceptors Kill Target Missile In Terminal-Phase Success (DEFENSE DAILY 06 JUN 08) … Dave Ahearn The Aegis weapon control system guided two Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) Block IV interceptors that obliterated a target missile in its terminal phase of flight, as the foreign-built unitary Scud-like target missile [...] [...]

Flightdeck Friday

Flightdeck Friday: Naval Air and D-Day – 6 Jun 44

So – wrapping up our TDY this week and hopping the (ugh) red-eye back to Occupied Territory for to make it back for a libs this weekend before back to the grind Monday. While we’ve been concentrating on Midway this past week, there is this other event over in the ETO that took place in [...] [...]

history lessons

Midway 66 Years Later – Lessons Learned

“I can run wild for six months … after that, I have no expectation of success.“ – Fleet Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto In racing there is a saying – ‘luck is where preparation meets opportunity’ Perhaps there is no truer an example than the Battle of Midway. Popular literature seems to emphasize the American forces stumbling [...] [...]