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Australia’s 2nd Fighter Fleet: Super Hornets & Growlers

Australia’s 2nd Fighter Fleet: Super Hornets & Growlers

by | Jul 10, 2017 | Australia & S. Pacific, Avionics, Boeing, Contracts - Intent, ECM, Engines - Aircraft, Fighters & Attack, Force Structure, Issues - Political, Missiles - Air-Air, Missiles - Precision Attack, Radars, Sensors & Guidance, Signals Radio & Wireless, Spotlight articles, USA

RAAF F/A-18F rollout (click to view full) Australia’s A$ 10+ billion Super Hornet program began life in a storm. Australia’s involvement in the F-35 Lightning II program have been mired in controversy, amid criticisms that the F-35A will (1) be unable to...
Australia’s 2nd Fighter Fleet: Super Hornets & Growlers

Vietnam’s Restocking: Subs, Ships, Sukhois, and Now Perhaps F-16s and P-3s?

by | May 2, 2017 | Asia - Other, Contracts - Intent, Force Structure, Issues - International, Missiles - Anti-Ship, Missiles - Precision Attack, Other Corporation, Russia, Spotlight articles, Submarines, Tanks & Mechanized, Underwater Weapons

Kilo Class cutaway(click to view full) In April 2009, reports surfaced that Vietnam had agreed in principle to a deal with Russia for 6 of its diesel-electric Kilo/ Project 636 Class fast attack submarines. By December 2009, it was an inflection-point deal for a...
Australia’s 2nd Fighter Fleet: Super Hornets & Growlers

Upgrading the Admiral: Russia’s Kuznetsov

by | Apr 25, 2017 | Fighters & Attack, Guns - 20-59 mm direct, Missiles - Anti-Ship, Missiles - Surface-Air, Other Corporation, Rumours, Russia, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, Surface Ships - Combat, Testing & Evaluation

Adm. Kuznetsov, 1996(click to view full) Russia’s “heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers” have received a lot of unfavorable attention from India’s snake-bit deal to refurbish the Admiral Gorshkov; in fairness, however, the Russians haven’t...