Posted by Java Joe on June 21, 2018 · Leave a Comment
US Senate blocks Lockheed’s $10 billion sale of F-35s to Turkey, fearing the fighter jet’s secrets are at risk since the NATO ally’s decision to buy the Russian S-400 air defense system.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Afghanistan commander, amphibious combat vehicle, Austin Scott miller, BAE Systems, Bryce Benson, F-35, Irian Woodley, Lockheed, Maryland National Guard, Massachusetts National Guard, Natalie Combs, NATO, Turkey, UN Human Rights Council, USS Fitzgerald, Virginia ational Guard
Posted by Java Joe on June 18, 2018 · Leave a Comment
An upgrade to the F-35’s engine is being developed. Pratt & Whitney says the changes will give the engine the power and cooling necessary to make the fighter jet even more of a powerhouse.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags A-10 Thunderbolts, Blue Angels, Cmdr. William Schomer, F-35, F-35A Lightning II, Maj. Gen. Daniel Yoo, Navy warrant officer-1, Netherlands F-35A, North Korea summit, reservists, Turkey F-35A
Posted by Java Joe on June 7, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The F-35 fighter jet is cruising toward the end of its development phase, but a Government Accountability Office report warns DoD not to move to full-rate production until it’s certain all critical technical issues have been resolved.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags American Electronics, Aviation Systems Engineering Co., Blue Origin, Dark Sword, Eagle Systems Inc., F-35, F-35B training, North Korea summit, Operation Overlord, Research and Engineering Development LLC, Rollout Systems LLC, single-use plastics, Social Security, Space Race, SpaceX, VA Choice
Posted by Java Joe on June 5, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The F-22 Raptor has deployed to the Pacific as part of a theater security mission, swapping in for the Air Force’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags BAE Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton, Expedition 60/61, F-22 Raptor, F-35, FFG(X), Fincantieri, frigate Alpino, German drones, Lockheed Martin, MQ-9 Reapers, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Senate defense policy bill, Top Gun
Posted by Java Joe on June 4, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The US Pacific Command has a new name. It will now be called US Indo-Pacific Command in the latest move to counter Chinese economic and military pressure in the region.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags C5I Edge Systems, F-35, forward firing gun, Geico Skytypers, MacAulay-Brown, military pet owners, minidrone, pilot retention, Pioneering Decisive Solutions Inc., Smartronix, tariffs, US Indo-Pacific Command, US Pacific Command, V-22 Osprey
Posted by Java Joe on May 2, 2018 · Leave a Comment
You won’t be commanding a ship, the Navy wants to recruit the “scientific or technical” skills needed to wage cyber war and needs to bring in those software engineers at a captain’s grade. A six-figure salary, commensurate with civilian workers, is necessary to bring the skill needed into the military.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags captain, David Quinn, EFT, F-35, Marine Corps Sgt. David Quinn, Navy's Expeditionary Fast Transport, pay grade, presidential helicopter, sexual assault, software engineer, Sprint, steel tariffs, T-Mobile, Tarawa, tariff, VA, World War II, WWII
Posted by Java Joe on April 16, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Three F-35 Lightning IIs have completed the most comprehensive flight test program in aviation history, Lockheed Martin officials said last week.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags A-10 Thunderbolt II, aviation accidents, Broad Area Maritime Surveillance, F-35, M80 Stiletto, military budget, missile strikes, submarine force ratings, Syrian air strikes, TESS, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, Triton, UAS
Posted by Java Joe on April 12, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Sikorsky is four years into its $1.2 billion contract to replace the president’s helicopter fleet with its VH-92A in 2019.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags drones, F-35, Lockheed Martin, Marine One, poison gas, presidential helicopter, Sea-Air-Space, Syria, VA, Veterans Administration, VH-92A
Posted by Java Joe on April 5, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The letter to the Pentagon announcing plans to decentralize the F35 program office came from the newly reconfigured office of the undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment. Each service running its own program is a more traditional model.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags border wall, Erdogan, F-35, F-35 Joint Program Office, Gen. Joseph Votel, Harrier, Lewis B. Puller, M80 Stiletto, SEALS, Syria, VA Secretary, votel
Posted by Java Joe on April 4, 2018 · Leave a Comment
What the F-22s have is a failure to communicate, with the F-35 and also the F-16 and other allied aircraft. The older fighter jet can receive communications, but cannot transmit its surveillance intelligence to the others.
