Archive for the ‘Air Force’ Category

Onizuka Air Force Station Closes

Posted: July 29, 2010 in Air Force, Blue Cube, Hush-Hush, Onizuka
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Goodbye yellow brick road?  No, after fifty years, goodbye Blue Cube. If you learn any more, you’ll have to put your head in the safe.

UAV Manpower

Posted: May 28, 2010 in Air Force, Air Force, Global Hawk, Intelligence, Predator, Reaper, UAVs
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from the Air Force Association on-line magazine: “If it takes about 170 personnel today to operate one combat air patrol of MQ-1 or MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft, how many are needed for a single high-flying RQ-4 Global Hawk CAP? Maj. Richard Johnson, Air Force spokesman for intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance issues, tells the Daily Report that the number [...]

Is the Promised Land for Prompt Global Strike the Scramjet?

Posted: May 20, 2010 in Air Force, Air Force, Falcon, NASA, Pratt & Whitney, Prompt Global Strike, Scramjet, Space Launch, SpaceX, X-51
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Maybe. The link is pretty much a super-long Pratt & Whitney press release touting the scramjet concept. While all the science is cosmic, the military, as with the NBA draft, often rewards potential versus proven performance. So can something like the air-dropped, solid rocket motor (initially) and scramjet (subsequently) powered, expendable X-51 really go from [...]