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F-35 Overruns Top $1 Billion… with a “B”
Almost a “dog bites man” <yawn> story at this point. From Business Week: Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT)’s first 63 F-35 fighter jets are exceeding their combined target cost by $1 billion, showing...
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KMax
Kaman Helicopters has a long history of taking an… unconventional approach to solving the challenges of rotary winged flight. A few years ago, they looked at the issue of helicopters with external...
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Silent Hornet?
The F/A-18 family has been a pretty successful program for Naval Aviation, from it’s origins as an inexpensive lightweight fighter, to a replacement for legacy F-4 Phantom and A-7 Corsair II aircraft....
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The Future of Army Aviation?
We’ve mentioned the Joint Multi-Role helicopter a couple times in the past, primarily in the sense that we aren’t getting a warm fuzzy feeling. If the program was strictly to develop new technologies...
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LCS-1&2
NatGeo actually did a special on the both the “first in class” Littoral Combat Ships. You’ll notice they spend a lot more time with stuff broke than with stuff workin’. I’ll say this, CDR Thein is a...
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Daily Dose of Splodey
Norwegian Naval Strike Missile (NSM) likely fired 13 June 2012 at decomm’d frigate HNoMS Trondheim. If our Navy insists on buying the LCS, maybe we could add some real ASuW firepower to them. Tagged:...
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Flying the F-35B
Lockheed Martin’s online magazine, Code One, has a very interesting article on flying the F-35B. For those in Rio Linda, the B-model is the STOVL variant of the F-35, designed for use by the United...
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VFA-101 F-35C Air-To-Air
Kind of an interesting pic from either another -101 bird or a chase aircraft. Cuppla things noticeable about the pic: Vapors mean hard g on the aircraft and pilot. That work is hard and nasty and fun....
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