Posted by Java Joe on October 30, 2018 · Leave a Comment
A new study finds the US is woefully short of ships and even the current target goal of 355 ships is short of what the country needs. The study calls for a force of 400 ships.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags 400-ship fleet, Adopt an Airman, aircraft readiness, cluster bombs, cybersecurity civilian corps, defense spending, Deputy DefSec Patrick Shanahan, energy drinks, Iraq War report, New America, Super Typhoon Yutu
Posted by Java Joe on October 29, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The US Navy commissioned its first test squadron dedicated to unmanned air systems at Webster Outlying Field. The UAS trials squadron is known as Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (UX) 24.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Belgium F-35A, F-35C Lightning II, F-35s, Indal Technologies, Jason Dunham, John Bolton, MIL Corp. Bowie, MQ-8 Fire Scout, NAS Lemoore, NAWCAD, RQ-20 Puma, RQ-21 Blackjack, RQ-26 Aerostar, Russian drones, Tyndall AFB, UAS squadron, US Mexico Border, US nuclear weapons, UX 24, Wesley Sanders
Posted by Java Joe on October 25, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The US Cyber Command is targeting individual Russian operatives to deter the spreading disinformation to interfere in elections, telling them American operatives have identified them and are tracking their work.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags cyber, cyber offensive, Hubble Telescope, Hurricane Ivan, Jamal Khashoggi, Khashoggi, midterm elections, Midterms, Nikki Haley, Russian interference, sealift, Taylor Energy, US Cyber Command, Wounded Warrier, Wounded Warrier Project
Posted by Java Joe on October 24, 2018 · Leave a Comment
NATO’s Trident Juncture opens this week, a month of NATO military exercises in the Arctic, involving troops operating in the air, on land, and at sea. This year anticipates the biggest show of force since the Cold War with 50,000 troops in place around the Arctic Circle.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags $779 billion deficit, 18F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, amphibious drones, Arctic Exercise, Cold War, Eastern Shipbuilding, military supply chain, NASA, NATO, NATO Arctic, space force, Space Force Reserve, Space National Guard, Trident Juncture
Posted by Java Joe on October 23, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The Harry S. Truman entered the Norwegian Sea last week, putting US Navy carrier aviation back to the Arctic Circle for the first time in almost 30 years.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Arctic Circle, DARPA, Dave Gunning, early voting in Maryland, F-35 Lightning II, HH-60H Seahawks mishap, hypoxia, Machine Common Sense program, MH-60 Seahawk crash, midterm elections, NGEN, SSN(X) attack sub, T-6 Texan trainer, USS Ronald Reagan
Posted by Java Joe on October 22, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Two F-35B Lightning II aircraft from the F-35 Integrated Test Force have left the HMS Queen Elizabeth after completing a first phase of developmental testing.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Adams Communication, American Electronic Warfare Associates, F-35B Lightning II, Heather Cole, HMS Queen Elizabeth, Holmes-Tucker International, Michael Yu, Mini Anirudhan, offshore patrol cutter program, space force, Super Hornet, Webster Field, Worksaver Material Handling Equipment Co.
Posted by Java Joe on October 18, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Drones are already changing the battlefield and impacting US strategy. Increased robotic controls of drones will likely also reduce the human footprint of counterinsurgency as the technology advances.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Blue Origin, Booz Allen Hamilton, Capt. Jack Killman, drones, Gen Alireza Tangsiri, General Atomics Reaper, Iran, Iranian drones, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, Northrop Grumman, Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, Raytheon, SEFIAM 1602, South Korea, SpaceX, Turgis et Gaillard Industri, Ukraine
Posted by Java Joe on October 17, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Most F-35s return to flight operations after fuel tubes were inspected. About 20 percent are still awaiting replacement tubes.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags Camp Hansen, F-16, F-22, F-35, FLIR, fuel tubes, International Space Station, Lockheed, Lockheed Martin, military retirement system, Okinawa, Tynall
Posted by Java Joe on October 16, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI said drones are one of the greatest national security threats to America, rating them as severe a concern as cybersecurity hacks, critical infrastructure attacks, and terrorism.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags aircraft readiness, cyber breach, drones, F-35s, Harris, Hurricane Michael, L3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, Lockheed Starliner, lunar lander, Saudi Arabia weapons sale, space fence, Vietnam
Posted by Java Joe on October 15, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The Pentagon said it was grounding its fleet of F-35s, just days after the first crash of an F-35B led investigators to suspect there is a problem with the jet’s fuel tubes. Most of the US’ international partners have followed suit.
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Category Morning Coffee · Tags aerial drones, DefSec Patrick Shanahan, F-35s, Hurricane Michael, Korean War, land mines, overweight soldiers, space force, Tyndall AFB, war remains, weather reconnaissance, Wing Loong IIs
