On your Mom’s what?
What does complacency sound like? I think I might have a transcript of it on my desk. We had a story in this week’s paper about a a couple of guys in a Super Hornet who completely missed the target...
View ArticleX-Ray vision coming soon for JSF pilots
Pilots in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will be able to see through the walls and floor of their own plane, thanks to a new high-tech helmet that’ll make NVGs seem like your grand daddy’s bifocals....
View ArticleA tug-of-war for naval aviation
If you think this year’s budget battle is a political showdown, check out this story here about turf war raging inside Britian’s defense world. The head of the Royal Air Force wants to take over all...
View ArticleSmoking crackdown?
No smoking, anywhere, anytime. That’s the new rule imposed last week at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan. One sailor tells Scoop Deck that some khakis will be patrolling around on the edges...
View ArticleBusiness trips or junkets?
Lots of times when Navy officials travel, they don’t actually pay for the trips. Instead, it’s business, associations and foreign governments that pick up the tab. Check out this site here that shows...
View ArticleMore Super Hornets coming soon?
Take a look at this. …A reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch thinks Congress is going to step in and force the Navy to buy more Boeing-made Super Hornets. (St. Louis is the home of Boeing...
View ArticleMore Super Hornets? Part II
Yesterday we heard rumors that legislators on Capitol Hill would tell the Navy to buy more Super Hornets — despite the fact the Navy has not formally asked for any. That’s no longer a rumor: Today Rep....
View ArticleF-35: Bells and whistles for all
There is some pretty clever technology coming down the pike along with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Another reporter and I were wondering the other day about whether the U.S. is actually going to...
View ArticleF-22 may be the Navy’s best friend
Maybe Congress can only fight over one aircraft at a time. And these days, it’s not the Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet. Lawmakers have been quietly inserting millions of extra dollars into this year’s...
View ArticleWill a new national defense strategy mean fewer planes?
There’ve been a lot of rumors swirling around Washington that the 50-year-old national defense strategy (being able to fight two big wars at the same time) is about to get canned in favor of a new one....
View ArticleNew(?) report of delays for the F-35
Capitol Hill is buzzing about this report today from Congressional Quarterly: The Pentagon’s Joint Estimating Team, established to independently oversee the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program,...
View ArticleThe Navy’s F-35 rollout
Here’s a photo from Forth Worth this afternoon, where Lockheed Martin rolled out its first F-35C, the carrier variant of the Joint Strike Fighter. That’s Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead...
View ArticleFly a UAV with your iPhone
So check out this video — some of the geniuses up at MIT in Boston have developed an application for the iPhone that can fly a UAV. Just tilt the phone, and the plane moves. One of those geniuses was...
View ArticleCool F-35 video
Last week, Lockheed Martin conducted the first in-air refueling test for the F-35B (with a KC-130J tanker). Check out this video shot in the skies over Texas.
View ArticleSilence is helping push for more Super Hornets
President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates haven’t really said anything about the push to buy more F/A-18E/F Super Hornets. And that silence may be telling. Now that summer’s over,...
View ArticleWill Ospreys work as the Navy’s new COD?
In this week’s paper, we reported a story about how the Navy is thinking of making the V-22 Osprey the Navy’s next Carrier Onboard Delivery aircraft — colloquially known as the COD. I had a chance to...
View ArticleEA-35? Not so fast.
A few weeks back, we wrote a story about the future of electronic attack aircraft in the Navy and Marine Corps. That story made a reference to preliminary talk of the Marine Corps eventually using the...
View ArticleNavy’s top techie approves social media tools
Anybody see the Navy’s Chief Information Officer’s blog this week? Rob Carey, the Navy’s top techie, approves of sites like Facebook. 3. Social Media as a Tool to Build Trust. Social media is an...
View ArticleA New Navy Term
Looks like the Navy has coined a new term. I heard it for the first time a couple of months ago when I was out on the Truman and talking to Rear Adm. Patrick Driscoll, the strike group’s commander. He...
View Article‘CAPT Titus ROCKS!!!!’
Some friends of a fired CO are rallying support online. Check out this Facebook page named “Support Capt. John Titus,” in honor of the commanding officer of the Navy Supply Corps School who was...
View ArticleF-35C Drop Testing video
Check this out — one of the first F-35 carrier variants was “drop tested” recently down at a Lockheed Martin facility in Dallas. The first test flight for the F-35C is expected in May or June.
View ArticleIranians filming the Eisenhower?
So what was that Iranian aircraft doing buzzing over the carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower last week? Filming it, according to the Iran’s naval chief. TEHRAN – An Iranian navy plane that came close to a US...
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