Excellent article on the development of Japanese carrier aviation in the months before Pearl Harbor: The picture that emerges is of an enemy carrier force whose capabilities in late 1941 were mutating almost overnight. The Kido Butai of December 1941 was entirely different from the...
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In this week's WPR column, I shill for Lockheed Martin: Given Congress' unwillingness to pursue additional revenue, the current Defense Department budget cannot be sustained. Cuts will be necessary, but the.
I have thoughts on arms control and aircraft carriers: China, India and Japan do not appear to be on the verge of breaking the bank in an effort to match.
My WPR column this week tackles the Great Carrier Debate of '11, and tries to reframe some of the basic questions: A third method of interpreting weapons acquisition -- and naval aviation -- is through a combination of the utilitarian and symbolic logics. In this...
I have nothing to say about Pearl Harbor today. However, while researching a short article about the British attack against the Italian fleet anchorage at Taranto I found this article,.
The Brazilians may finally be getting some decent aircraft for the Sao Paulo:The Government of Brazil has requested proposals from several foreign suppliers, including the United States, to provide the.
Via Galrahn, it looks as if the Royal Navy is ditching plans to buy the F-35B (VSTOL variant), and instead buying the F-35C (carrier variant) and adding catapults to its new carriers. As I've suggested before, this makes a lot of sense; the F-35B is...
To follow up on Dave's post about the Royal Navy, it appears that the first steel has been cut for Queen Elizabeth, the first of the RN's new big deck.
Feng at ID highlights two new bits of data on China's aircraft carrier program. The first is that the Chinese have carried out significant work on the ex-Varyag, the Kuznetsov.
I'm sure that the Chinese just arrived independently at the idea of having a folding-wing version of the Su-27:Russia is eyeing China following media reports that an unlicensed variant of the Sukhoi Su-33 carrier-borne multirole fighter has been developed. Sukhoi officials are "closely monitoring that...
Japan's new aircraft carrier helicopter carrying destroyer was commissioned yesterday. Hyuga can carry up to eleven helicopters, and may in the future be able to carry the F-35B VSTOL fighter..
The United Kingdom is considering pulling out of the F-35 project:BRITAIN is considering pulling out of a £9 billion project with America to produce the new Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).