February 2010

This nation is face-to-face with disarmament by entitlement.

After the QDR, USAF will have fewer fighters, fewer options, and therefore tougher choices.

It’s the Air Force UAV, which delivers vital information as well as an occasional shot between the eye

Mobility airmen have approached their Afghanistan missions with a messianic zeal.

Will arms control and tighter budgets finish off the nuclear armed version?

Manned and unmanned QF-4s make for spectacular targets.

Years of constant operations have taken a serious toll on USAF’s fleet.

One of every five B-17s that set out from England was lost.

The nation’s armed forces are edging toward what may prove to be a laser revolution.

The most gifted and influential aeronautical researcher of his time knew a thing, or two, or three.

Stealth skywriting; Watched by Gorgons; Stopping START? ....

As matters stand today, the US aerospace industry will, by the end of this decade, be producing one fighter—the F-35. Airlifter assembly could be down to one line—the C-130 tactical transport. Production of a long-range bomber? Maybe, but probably not....

Airman Dies in Afghanistan TSgt. Anthony C. Campbell Jr., 35, of Florence, Ky., died Dec. 15 from wounds he received from an improvised explosive device that detonated in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Campbell, an explosive ordnance disposal technician with Air Force...

Declaring Our Intentions “We are in this thing to win.”—Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, en route to Afghanistan, Washington Post, Dec. 8. This Is Not Vietnam “There are those who suggest that Afghanistan is another Vietnam. They argue that...

“Desert Storm” Lt. Gen. Charles A. Horner, USAF Address to Business Executives for National Security Cannon House Office BuildingWashington, DC May 8, 1991 FULL TEXT VERSION It was only a few months after the smashing US victory in the first...

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The Testers From Tucson I was very pleased to see the cover of the December edition [“The Testers From Tucson,” p. 42] . The picture of three Block 32 F-16s from the Air National Guard/Air Force Reserve Command Test Center...

Space Award in Los Angeles At the November Air Force Ball sponsored by the Gen. B. A. Schriever Los Angeles Chapter in Beverly Hills, Calif., Maj. Gen. Stephen T. Sargeant received the Air Force Association’s national space award. Sargeant, who...