The Fifth Generation Air Force

[Fishbone Jones]

This is where we should we be moving to.

I only add that we need to do the above with more space assets.

I like the idea and direction. Too bad, we can't even pick a replacement for the CF-18. Never mind something like that.

 

[armrdsoul77]

New build F-16's instead of F-35's for the USAF? Heresy.

New-Build F-16s For The USAF Is An Idea That Won’t Go Away, For Good Reason

 

[Nvlgzr]

Wow. Boeing has landed the Navy FA-XX in addition to the F-47.

US Navy selects Boeing to build next-generation F/A-XX fighter

Boeing has officially been selected to build the Navy’s sixth-generation carrier-based strike fighter, dubbed F/A-XX.

www.defensenews.com

 

[FJAG]

Wow. Boeing has landed the Navy FA-XX in addition to the F-47.

US Navy selects Boeing to build next-generation F/A-XX fighter

Boeing has officially been selected to build the Navy’s sixth-generation carrier-based strike fighter, dubbed F/A-XX.

www.defensenews.com

Anyone want to put money on whether or not it will be called the Trump Strike Fighter?

 

[Nvlgzr]

Anyone want to put money on whether or not it will be called the Trump Strike Fighter?

Has anyone heard more about Trump redesigning the F-35 with 2 engines?

 

[ytz]

Has anyone heard more about Trump redesigning the F-35 with 2 engines?

Thankfully, he doesn't have the same ability to interfere on this, as he did on the aircraft carrier and next gen destroyer.

 

[Kirkhill]

Britain to fly hypersonic target from Hebrides range

A target vehicle able to replicate threats travelling at more than five times the speed of sound is being built under Project Bowline, with a live flight demonstration planned at the MOD Hebrides Range in 2027.

ukdefencejournal.org.uk

Target drones seem to be converted into tactical drones fairly regularly.

 

[FJAG]

Most folks don't seem to recall that back in the 1980s, when cruise missiles were a new concept, Trudeau - the first of that name - entered into an agreement with the US to allow testing them in Canada.

 

[RangerRay]

Most folks don't seem to recall that back in the 1980s, when cruise missiles were a new concept, Trudeau - the first of that name - entered into an agreement with the US to allow testing them in Canada.

Oh I remember. The peaceniks at the time also had undue influence at the time and there were big protests that make modern protests in North America look like a community walk.

 

[MacNav63]

Oh I remember. The peaceniks at the time also had undue influence at the time and there were big protests that make modern protests in North America look like a community walk.

That was peak anti-nuke campaign time across the west. Massive protests in Europe against cruise and Pershing and back here against cruise testing. A lot of very naive stuff, like the City of Ottawa vote on declaring the city a nuclear free zone in 1982, championed by then mayor Marion Dewar. I'm hearing 99 Luftballons even as I type. I seem to recall that post the collapse of the USSR there was a fair bit of evidence that Soviet funds were finding there way into some of these campaigns.

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

That was peak anti-nuke campaign time across the west. Massive protests in Europe against cruise and Pershing and back here against cruise testing. A lot of very naive stuff, like the City of Ottawa vote on declaring the city a nuclear free zone in 1982, championed by then mayor Marion Dewar. I'm hearing 99 Luftballons even as I type. I seem to recall that post the collapse of the USSR there was a fair bit of evidence that Soviet funds were finding there way into some of these campaigns.

Some? Some?

Most would be more appropriate. From the "Veterans for Peace" in Canada, the UK and the US, with their white berets at Remembrance days, to the "Better Red Than Dead" European movements, through just about every "peace-nicks" of the time, the major funding was coming from the International Peace Institute, in Helsinki, which was an elaborate front for the KGB directorate charged with the undermining of the NATO alliance.