This is a relatively cheap invention that pays big dividends. The Air Force spends the better part of a million dollars training each pilot, and it loses a percentage of those pilots to service-related disabilities such as hearing loss. |
This is an interesting twist on an argument that the Air Force has been pursuing for some time on the need to cut its purchases of Joint Strike Fighters. The Air Force has settled on a number of about 1,100. |
This is not a fleet that is being oriented to the Chinese threat. It's being oriented around irregular warfare, stability operations and dealing with rogue states. |
This is really about a war plan that went wrong based on a series of bad decisions that reflected really abysmal intelligence. |
This is somewhat similar to the life-saving drug that is rushed into production for fear that people will die if they don't get it. In a time of war there is great pressure to equip troops with body armor and other life-saving equipment as soon as possible. |
This is very good news for Boeing at a time when its space operations seemed to be faltering. |
This list is going to become law. This process had created winners in addition to losers in many communities. The legislative majority required to reject the recommendation certainly isn't there. |
This reflects the fact that all the defense companies are migrating toward services. Although General Dynamics has traditionally been regarded as a technology and hardware company, this takes the company firmly into the services sector, which is growing rapidly. |
Unfortunately, Boeing didn't understand the technology as well as Lockheed. The government's biggest concern is that its Cold War satellites will wear out before the new satellites are ready for orbit, and there will be a big gap in imagery. |
V-22 is probably the most bulletproof weapons program in the Pentagon's budget, |
V-22 is probably the most bulletproof weapons program in the Pentagon's budget. |
We ought to get off this notion that we're going to be deploying it, because we're not. |
We're in no rush to bomb Iran. The fact that we have bombing plans on the shelf for dealing with Iran is not new because we've been generating those plans for a quarter-century. That's what planners do. |
What does the governor know about how to base A-10s in terms of future war-fighting requirements? ... Not a damn thing. |
What does the governor know about how to base A-10s in terms of future war-fighting requirements? Not a damn thing. |