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U.S. Air Force officials are grounding about one-third of active-duty combat aircraft as a result of the automatic federal budget cuts known as sequestration implemented in March. The spending cuts will reduce the Air Combat Command’s (ACC) operations and maintenance accounts by about 45,000 flying hours, according to the Air Force News Service. The aircraft [...] Check this out checker outers… In an article from the Dayton Daily News, we find out that an Air National Guard Chaplain has been awarded the Bronze Star…for a powerpoint presentation. After the accidental burning last year of Qurans by U.S. troops in Afghanistan sparked deadly rioting, an Air National Guard chaplain from Springfield stepped [...] Russian Air to Air Missiles We Got From “somewhere” How do we really know what the bad guys have and what it is that can actually do? The best way to find out is actually have one. Read this interesting story from Defense News to find out more. Here’s a piece: In the high-end [...] As I predicted HERE the morons in charge over in zoomie land went overboard in their zeal to rid the service of offensive material. As noted HERE and ESPECIALLY HERE the witch hunt left no stone unturned. The Air Force destroyed a Maxim mens magazine and a poster of a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader in an [...] Shoo Shoo Baby. A B-17G on display in the USAF Museum, in Dayton, Ohio This article from the Air Force Times spells out the details of what amounts to a witch hunt of sorts… Air Force-wide inspections begin today By Becky Iannotta – Staff writer Posted : Wednesday Dec 5, 2012 9:39:25 EST Commanders [...] Got this in my in-box this morning… Drone crashes increase at civilian airports Craig Whitlock Washington Post Published: December 2, 2012 3:00 a.m. The U.S. Air Force drone, on a classified spy mission over the Indian Ocean, was destined for disaster from the start. An inexperienced military contractor, operating by remote control in shorts and [...] If you’ve ever wondered what it is like to be on the ground near an air strike featuring A-10s wonder no more, just watch the video. Of course the USAF is getting rid of them. Share on Facebook There’s a code word we used when I was flying for a downed aircraft, “Fallen Angel”. There was nothing on this earth that focused your attention more than hearing that call over the radio, and was nothing to us that was a higher priority. Today I spotted THIS ARTICLE which tells of two USAF [...] A former USAF General explains the problem with the current fleet of fighters. Currently there is no solution except retire them with no replacement. In compairison my old unit just had the first AH-64D to surpass ten thousand hours. Jets aren’t the only thing that are wearing out. Share on Facebook Aim High! From The NY Times Air Force Drone Operators Report High Levels of Stress By ELISABETH BUMILLER Published: December 18, 2011 WASHINGTON — Nearly half the operators of drone aircraft have high levels of job-related stress, mostly linked to long and erratic work hours because of a tremendous increase in the use of [...] If there is one thing you can count on “Joe” to do, it is something that he is not supposed to. Like connecting unauthorized hard-drives to the network. If there’s a way to f@#k something up “Joe” will find it, guaranteed. As I postulated previously HERE, someone was doing something they weren’t supposed to. From [...] From The Danger Room It’s an good article and I would encourage those interested to read the entire thing HERE The Air Force’s mysterious X-37B “space plane” is only on its second, eight-month-plus orbital mission, ostensibly conducting science experiments. But manufacturer Boeing has already drawn up plans for a major upgrade to the nimble, [...] H/T Neptunus Lex From The Danger Room A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones. The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech [...] From my e-mail inbox…and Defense Industry Daily come s this story. MOPping Up: The USA’s 30,000-Pound Bomb Defense Industry Daily Aug 04, 2011 15:08 EDT During the Second World War, attacking heavily-protected targets like U-boat pens and protected “V-weapon” facilities was a key challenge. Enter a brilliant British engineer named Barnes Wallis, fresh off [...] This is actually from an IMAX movie that was entitled “Fighter Pilot”. The film details what goes on during a Red Flag wargame at Nellis AFB, NV, minus trips to the Spearment Rhino. It is available on Blu Ray and DVD, and if I knew how to do that whole Amazon embed thingy I [...] I saw this story the other day but didn’t post about it because, I really didn’t think too much about it. It reappeared today, most notably in the UK paper Daily Mail among other places. Like all EO (= Opportunity) publicity stunts, this one was engineered to occur, these women most likely weren’t on [...] Well, things are moving along with the F-35 program. The first production model which is destined for Eglin AFB, FL flew for the first time Friday from the Lockheed Martin plant in Fort Worth, TX (it is co-located with Carswell Field, Fort Worth Naval Air Station…it’s still Carswell AFB to me, but I’m steadily getting [...] A single B-2 bomber releases 80 JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition (GPS Guided)) bombs on a target airfield in a single pass during a test. Share on Facebook Share on Facebook |
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