by Carl Borsani | Mar 20, 2015 | Industry News
At the Donetsk Airport, a handful of Ukrainian military men by January 19 had been fighting off the Russian-backed Donetsk People’s Republic, or DPR, for months. Much of the airport structure had been obliterated. The once-smooth runway was a lunar landscape of...
by Carl Borsani | Mar 20, 2015 | Industry News
The Pentagon is creating a new high-level council to direct all Pentagon electronic warfare programs, Deputy Secretary Robert Work said this morning. The Pentagon’s top weapons buyer and the Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will lead the group, which will...
by Carl Borsani | Mar 20, 2015 | Industry News
The Pentagon has launched a wide-ranging study of electronic warfare, looking across the services at major platforms such as the EA-18G Growler and the F-35’s three versions. “We are doing right now in the Department of Defense a study that looks at all...
by Carl Borsani | Mar 20, 2015 | Industry News
While in Iraq the U.S. Air Force is sending A-10 Warthogs on successful sortie after successful sortie against the Islamic State, back here at home, Air Force brass are renewing their efforts to scrap the legendary plane. In fact, the Air Force, thwarted in last...
by Carl Borsani | Mar 20, 2015 | Industry News
“Unpredictable instability” is the new normal, the director of National Intelligence told the Senate Armed Services Committee here yesterday. James R. Clapper testified on worldwide threats facing the United States and gave his best advice on what he...