Faux Reform's Camel Already Has Her Nose Under the LRS-B Tent
The Faux Reform Crowd are hilariously heavy-handed. May it ever be so.Embedded in the bottom in an otherwise very fine article at Breaking Defense about Northrop Grumman winning the LRS-B contract we...
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10 years of Blogging
I know, I know. Lately I've been on my longest hiatus ever.I needed the downtime after spending most of the non-holidays in November and December closing out a 4 year project-from-hell, and am still...
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LRS-B Cost Story Not Really About LRS-B
DefenseNews has a young posse of correspondents that are pretty hapless when it comes to analysis, but they still manage to do some actual reporting from time to time. If you can stand having to read...
View ArticleGAO's LRS-B Findings Tomorrow?
Tomorrow was the planned release of the GAO's findings on Boeing's LRS-B contract protest. It technically is two days later than the required timeframe/due date, but the deadline was on Sunday and...
View ArticleLRS-B Contract Award to Northrop Grumman Found to be Correct
Which means the protest was found not too valid. Hooray for sanity!Read about it here. Ignore the grossly incompetent journalistic failure in the last paragraph. Laura just forgot to ctl-alt-desnark at...
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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...
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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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...
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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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"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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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....
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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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 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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'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 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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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...
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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...
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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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...
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