Energizer F-16
The F-16 orderbook will take until 2017 to work off, and Lockheed Martin anticipates there may be a market for a further 50 airplanes, said Rod McLean, company vice president and general manager for the F-16 and F-22. Speaking with...
Upgrades and Transfers
There may be some new users of the F-16 even without new production, Lockheed Martin F-16 Vice President and General Manager Rod McLean said Wednesday. Speaking with reporters at a company media event in Arlington, Va., McLean said Lockheed Martin...
There’s That Interoperability Thing
Lockheed Martin F-16 chief Rod McLean notes that the preponderance of the air forces flying missions against ISIS in Iraq and Syria are using F-16s. The US, Denmark, and many of the Gulf Cooperation Council nations—Bahrain, Oman, United Arab Emirates,...
Places, Bases, and Faces in the Asia-Pacific
Expanding theater security cooperation efforts, at the airman-to-airman level, will help foster stability and create new opportunities for the US Air Force in the Asia-Pacific, Pacific Air Forces Commander Gen. Lori Robinson said. After taking command in October 2014, Robinson...
Building a Common Picture in the Pacific
The Air Force must work with its regional allies and partners to further develop data and intelligence sharing practices across US Pacific Command in order to build trust and confidence before crisis demands it, Pacific Air Forces boss Gen. Lori...
Countering A2AD From the Ground
One of the Army’s leading futurists believes Army forces on the ground is the solution to the growing anti-access, area-denial threats to US power projection capabilities, rather than the “standoff capabilities” that would be provided by Air Force and Navy...
Army General Calls Decision to Invade Iraq an “Intellectual Failure”
Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, who as a major wrote “Dereliction of Duty,” a devastating indictment of US political and military leaders for the deceptions and misjudgments that led to the costly failure in Vietnam, was more circumspect Feb. 19...
Pope Airlift Wing Facing Closure
Air Force Reserve Command’s 440th Airlift Wing at Pope Field, N. C., is working to reassign many of its drill-status airmen ahead of the unit’s imminent inactivation in September, officials announced. “The Air Force has not submitted the congressionally mandated...
Mission Control Station Two Reporting
Air Force Space Command is consolidating control of its missile-launch early warning satellite systems to a single mission control center at Buckley AFB, Colo., officials announced. The “Block 10” control floor at Buckley conducted its first set of test communications...
Bears Bug Britain Again
British fighters scrambled to intercept Russian TU-95 strategic bombers off the coast of southern England on Wednesday, less than a month after a contentious overflight of the English Channel. UK Prime Minister David Cameron said the Kremlin appears to be...