With both Russia and China developing and building hypersonic weapons, the U.S. military must get in the game or risk being left behind. In the past, regulations have slowed acquisition of advanced technology. But the Defense Department has rewritten the rules for acquisition — the 5000-series of po…
The JAPCC turns 15 – fifteen years dedicated to competence in air power! Unlike sea and land power, both of which also represent geostrategic terms, air power is much less related to the ‘classical’ notion of ‘geography’. For instance, being geographically distant from a crisis does not mean too muc…
WICHITA, Kan. — Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. announced today it has completed, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. and Spirit AeroSystems Global Holdings Limited, its acquisition of select assets of Bombardier aerostructures and aftermarket services businesses in Be…
Another three Dassault Rafale fighters will be delivered to India this week, the jets are reported to be arriving on home soil on Nov. 4. By Rob Schleiffert from Holland (Rafale B) [CC BY-SA 2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons The three aircraft will take off from Istres in France and head to Jamnagar non-stop. They […]
Taiwan is said to be preparing to retire the MIM-23 HAWK medium-range surface-to-air missile system by end of the year. The missile system’s MPQ-50 Pulse Acquisition Radar will be transferred to the Army. The 6th, 8th and 10th Army Commands will each receive a radar. Meanwhile, it was separately reported that the CS/MPQ-90 Bee Eye […]