Again With the Space Force? aka: Dorky-Pants Solution Revisited
A shout out to all the politicos who've given enough thought about a particular unfortunate set of circumstances but not a fraction more than passing thought as to the dorky-pants solutions they are...
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Why the Gypsy Woman Laughs at DOT&E
(Photo by Darrin Russel/Lockheed Martin)DOT&E FY15 Doomsaying…- Full Block 3F mission systems development and testing cannot be completed by May 2017, the date reflected in the most recent Program...
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A Survey: What does State of the Art Fighter Maneuverability Look Like?
How Would You "Score" Maneuverability Requirements Today? Part 1Since maneuverability is a hot topic these days (especially here)....As I noted in a post ages ago, in the 1980's Skow, Hamilton and...
View ArticleF-35 Was NOT Inferior to F-16 in a 2015 "Dogfight"
Why Any Inference that the F-35 2015 'Post-Stall Agility' Control Law (CLAW) Test As a 'Dogfight' is BogusThis is a rework of something I posted on twice in 2015. I'm doing the rework a a form of blog...
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“Fighter Aircraft” Design: Driven by Operational Requirements (Part 3)
With the world about to bear witness at the Paris Air Show (#PAS17) this week that the F-35 is NOT the 'pig' aircraft that the propagandist critics (all of whom have NO material knowledge of the F-35)...
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Happy Father's Day 2017
Dads, you are terribly missed. But you live on in our hearts.(Pics in Chronological Order)Granddad (Left) Enroute to San Diego on the USS Langley's 1st deployment to the Pacific Fleet 1924.Granddad...
View ArticleWe Can't let an F-35 Myth Die!
The "Phone it in Edition"The only thing worse than 'phoning it in'.... is doing so with incredibly poor timing.28 April 2017“For me, it’s my first time dogfighting against an F-15”….“Dogfighting is a...
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Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: F-35 Edition.
Punctuation: It's important.Reference in Title Explained There was a poor article published at Business Insider (as if that is a surprise) on 18 April where the author did a mashup of an interview...
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President Trump & The F-35: He's Done the Impossible!
F-35 Costs coming down as expected. Deal with it. President Trump set wheels in motion that have turned the long-standing 'F-35 is unaffordable' deception inside out. The whole world now knows the F-35...
View ArticleThis Fighter Program's Problems are Outrageous!
Time for another round of Name That Program!(Any of this seem familiar?)XXXXXXXX noted that: (1) XXXXXXXX has revised the XXXXXXXX flight test program by decreasing the data collection requirements...
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'Opti-Onics': Arrived in the Late 20th Century
Via x-ray delta one we find the visionaries at Bell & Howell understood Intelligence Strike & Reconnaissance (ISR) way back in the 1940s :Source: XRay Delta One (James Vaughan)Just envision...
View ArticleB-2's Bomb ISIS!
H/T Edpop at F-16.net This is pretty much a repeat of what I posted at F-16.netIt is interesting that CNN focuses on the body count. It does gives proof to the old adage "If it bleeds it leads' but my,...
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Not the 'Second Engine for the F-35' Cr*p Again!
Oh dear, if only the world was this simple. Breaking Defense has an advocacy piece up at Breaking Defense titled:"Trump Wants Lower F-35 Costs, He Should Compete F135 Engine"from Retired USAF Colonel...
View ArticleDrone Swarm Testing
The applications and ramifications are numerous, mind-boggling. For the paranoid, it probably has the added bonus of being scary as h*ll.Sleep well.
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The Cuban Communist Despot Has Died
Finally.I join my Cuban friends in their celebration with a little something I've been saving just for this occasion: A fine American (Texan!) vodka that kicks the rest of the world's vodkas a**es....
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"Pentagon Top Tester" Tests Nothing, But He Sure Can Whine
It's as if his phony-baloney job depends on itAh! The DOT&E memo leaked last month to Anthony “SlowTony” Cappacio by ‘someone’ has a follow-on. It is oozing out of the woodwork this time via the...
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What I've Been Doing
Is what I'll be doing for a little while longer. No deadline considerations, just quality ones.I've had a few enquiries as to why the long time 'light blogging'. I hope to come out from under a rock...
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F-16 and F-35 parallels: Boy Reporter Gets Few Facts Right, Story Wrong
Hat Tip: 'tbarlow' @ F-16.netThis is just too funny and too easy to debunk for me to pass up. I just gotta point out the stupid involved. Kyle Mizokami tripped over a thread in Reddit and built a nice...
View ArticleLaw of Unintended Consequences and F-35 H8ers.
Hillarity ensues.My apologies for not posting more, but I’m swamped with higher priorities and will continue to be for a while yet. There’s been a lot going on that I’d like to really get into the...
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Northrop Grumman's B-21 Bomber Concept Revealed
Newly released B-21 unclassified computer art? Deja Vu Baby!The artist's concept revealed by the Air Force for the newly-revealed B-21 "bomber" (will that moniker survive or will it become something...
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