Posted by Java Joe on July 10, 2025 · Leave a Comment
An Air Force KC-46 Pegasus tanker lost its boom on July 8 while refueling an F-22 Raptor fighter jet off the coast of Virginia.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Alligator Alcatraz, Apache helicopters, DefSec Pete Hegseth, F-35, F/A-XX, foreign military sales, KC-46 Pegasus, South Korea, SWEEP, Ukraine, USS John F. Kennedy, Veterans Affairs
Posted by Java Joe on May 19, 2025 · Leave a Comment
President Donald Trump wants the US military to have a new twin-engine F-35. He wants to call it the F-55. It will have two engines and a super upgrade on the F-35. Some analysts say it will be a highly challenging engineering endeavor.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags AI, AMVETS, artificial intelligence, Boeing, Boeing’s E-7 Wedgetail, F-55, F/A-XX, Helsing, James Kilby, military parade, National Guard, Naval Aviation News, Northrop Grumman, Qatar, Security Force Assistance Brigades, Super F-22, underwater drones, veteran disability claims
Posted by Java Joe on July 28, 2016 · Leave a Comment
The Pentagon is looking for a few good bad guys for practice dogfights.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags A2/AD, combat training, Defense Mobile, F-35, F/A-XX, hacking, interest rates, Pentagon, Russia, Special Ops, UK
Posted by Java Joe on September 2, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The Navy’s X-47B UCAS completed its final test aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt and returned to its home base at NAS Pax River after eight days at sea.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Atlantic Test Range, Boeing, domestic violence, F-22, F-35C Joint Strike Fighter, F/A-18 Super Hornet, F/A-XX, F135, Lockheed Martin, military pay, NAVAIR, Pratt & Whitney, UCAS, Victor Gavin, X-47B
Posted by Java Joe on August 4, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Sen. Mikulski placed language in the defense bill that could prevent the wind farm from proceeding until a turbine side effects study is completed.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing, chief petty officer selection, F-35B, F/A-18E, F/A-XX, NAVAIR, NAWCAD, NLDP, P-8A Poseidon, REPI award, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, UCLASS, wind farm
Posted by Editor on July 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The $5.3 billion service contract has scores of eligible firms nationwide.
Posted by Editor on July 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Navy cites a “significant lack of leadership and integrity” for its decision.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Capt. Lisa Raimondo, Congress, DARPA, drones, F/A-XX, Internetional Test and Evaluation Association, Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Pax River, Pentagon, sequestration, UAV, UCAS-D, V-22 Osprey, X-47B
Posted by Editor on May 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Lawmakers tackle defense spending this week.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags biofuel, budget, China, Congress, F-35, F/A-XX, Harvest Hawk, J-20, Joint Strike Fighter, JSF, Leon Panetta, Lockheed Martin, Next Generation Jammer, Pentagon, sequestration
Posted by Editor on May 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Attack drone to undergo 2,000-volt shock test at Pax River.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Combat Dragon, cybersecurity, drones, F/A-XX, Lockheed, NAVAIR, Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Pax River, Sikorsky, UAV, UCAS-D, X-47B
Posted by Editor on May 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Australia will push back a decision to buy Joint Strike Fighters for two years.
