the government retains an option for an additional 135 helicopters to be distributed as needed to the Army, civilian agencies, or foreign military sales. The US Army’s current Black Hawk fleet of 2,100 aircraft includes
Although often overlooked in favour of operational flying activities, any military force must be underpinned by a robust and flexible training pipeline. In the case of the US Navy (USN) and US Marine Corps, that pipeline contains 26%, or 679, of its total aircraft inventory and accounts for...
should be “EuroFighter 2000 Typhoon (EF-2000)” or SAM, should be “Surface to Air Missile (SAM)”. Please write name of the weapon system or military entity fully rather than its shorter version. If you must, insert the shorter version in parenthesis as shown...
11/11/86: Lieutenant Commander Mark Feldman, Sr, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his heroic action on the morning of 11 November 1986 while serving as the aircraft commander of Coast Guard HH-52A helicopter 1428 during the rescue of two victims of an aircraft crash in Lake St...
Although ongoing reforms may decrease near-term readiness, in the long-term they should enable better planning and preparation for joint military operations across the Taiwan Strait. PLA services and support forces continue to improve training and acquire new capabilities for a Taiwan contingency. ...
I expect we will be seeing a proliferation of the M16A4 rifles just as we have the M4A1 carbines since the early summer of 2022. The 47 OMBr probably won’t be the only unit to field them and we’ll probably be seeing many more of these in the future as the US military has consid...
Members of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 242 clear new F-35B aircraft on Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, on May 9, 2021. (Lance Cpl. Bryant Rodriguez/U.S. Marine Corps) The ongoing conflict in Ukraine should serve as a wake-up call to U.S. lea...
In an age where so few have served in the military and even few have seen combat in some way shape or form many who study war are comfortable experts who learn about war with no inconvenience to themselves. When I hear men and women, the pundits, politicians and preachers, thatTrinity of...
The Ultralightweight Field Howitzer, designated M777 in the US, was selected to replace the existing inventory of M198 155mm towed howitzers by a joint US Army/Marine Corps initiative in 1997.
With the exception of the V-22, the helicopter industry has been building improved models of exisiting aircraft for more than three decades And it could all become reality relatively quickly for a military rotorcraft programme. With the notable exception of the Bell Boeing V-22, the industry ha...