OH NOES! A B-2 stealth bomber plunged to the ground shortly after taking off from an air base in Guam on Saturday, the first time one crashed, but both pilots ejected safely, Air Force officials said.The aircraft was taking off with three others on their...
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The USAF has been pissing off a lot of people lately.The first problem is the F-22. The Air Force insists that it needs a lot of them. Congress, footing the.
Wow...This is a simulation of the recent F-15 crash. The crash resulted in the grounding of much of the fleet; fortunately, the pilot survived.
...for abolishing the Air Force better than I ever could. In a rather incoherent op-ed in yesterday's NYT, Major General Charles Dunlap makes the following series of claims:The military success of the Surge is due to an increase in "boots on the ground"; so much...
WTVQ 36 Action News! Hopefully they'll put up the clip; I went with the jacket and no tie to emphasize my academicitude. They contrasted me with a very nice old.
Christian at Defense Tech has a nice rundown on the "grounded Eagles" problem; if you hadn't heard, the USAF grounded its entire fleet of F-15s after a plane broke up.
Given that I've called for the end of the Air Force, I think it's only fair that LGM join the Air Force Valour IT Project team. The goal of Project Valour IT is to raise money for the purchase of voice-activated laptops for disabled veterans....
The roundtable for the Air Force article is now up at TAP. Participants included myself, David Axe, Jason Sigger, Michael Goldfarb, John of Op-For, Sharon Weinberger, and Noah Shachtman. The.
Got some good reactions out there to my Air Force abolition article:David Axe is participating in a roundtable on the article, the results of which will be available tomorrow. He's.
I have an article in this month's American Prospect about the United States Air Force. An excerpt:But it's time to revisit the 1947 decision to separate the Air Force from the Army. While everyone agrees that the United States military requires air capability, it's less...