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Elon Musk: “I have an idea for a vertical takeoff and landing supersonic jet.”. Why start with an ordinary supersonic jet when you could leap-frog […]

Roper Calls For New Air Force Planes Every Five Years; Recalls X Plane Days. A slice: “Part of Roper’s push is for what he called […]

“The Boeing T-X (which also saw Sweden’s Saab as a partner) was remarkable in not only was it a clean sheet design that triumphed against […]

NDAA: HASC Doubles Joint AI Funding, Streamlines Software Buys. (Double to only $166.8 million, and the streamlining involves a “new acquisition pathway” with twice a […]

New U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers Can’t Launch F-35s Until 2027: Report. Lockheed Martin Continues To Impress (impress investors, that is, not the weapon systems users). […]

“Steam’s only worked for about 65 years perfectly,” the president said. “They have a $900 million cost overrun on this crazy electric catapult. I said, […]

The (apparent) winner-take-all JEDI cloud contract creates tension — and micromanagement: “The House Appropriations Committee’s version of the 2020 Defense spending bill would prohibit DoD […]

“Hours after top Navy officials explained to skeptical lawmakers why they would retire the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier 25 years early, Vice President Mike […]

1 Marine dead, 6 injured after training accident at Camp Pendleton (LAV rolled over). “The system can combine the speed, rapid fire and depth of […]

Whoops: Lockheed Martin’s F-21 (Or Super F-16) Won’t Be Joining India’s Air Force. “According to journalist Angad Singh, the likely winner is French company Dassault’s […]

Defense stock rebound: “Lockheed Martin saw first-quarter earnings of $5.99 a share, an increase of 49% from a year earlier.” That led to an overnight […]

“The U.S. Army is looking for information on a 360-degree counter-drone system capable to detect unmanned aircraft systems weighing less than 20 pounds.” I assume […]

“Very small differences can have very large impacts [on radar cross section], the most visible part on the A10 was the blades inside the turbine, […]

Recommended article on the Littoral Combat Ship. Here’s a good bit: “Cracks, corrosion, and equipment breakdowns are common in new warship designs, especially designs that […]

Andy Marshall, the Pentagon’s ‘Yoda,’ dies at age 97. A controversial character for sure. Here’s a good article on Marshall from 2014. A slice: “It […]