Elements Of Power

Commentary and discussion on world events from the perspective that all goings-on can be related to one of the six elements of National Power: Military, Economic, Cultural, Demographic, Organizational, & Geographical. All Elements are interrelated and rarely can one be discussed without also discussing its impact on the others

Thursday, September 29, 2011

F-35 to Begin Sea Trials Next Week

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Defense News Reports : "They start on 3rd October, and should last only two weeks," said Lt. Gen. Terry Robling, the Marine's...

Centennial of Naval Aviation #2

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Historic U.S. Navy PN-9 Seaplane, Circa 1925 Bumped: Find a new comment from a Grandson of the designer. Here are some crops of another n...
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Monday, September 26, 2011

DDG-1000: US Surface Stealth News

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I was wondering why there hadn't been any actual DDG-1000 "Zumwalt" photos on the web even though there were discussions about...

UAV as Satellite Backup

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 Without passing any judgement on the technical approach, the idea of having an unmanned high flyer communications network in case our spa...
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Friday, September 23, 2011

Inside the Pentagon: JSF Faces Potential $3 Billion Bill To Reconfigure Early Production Aircraft

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...and it is NOT as big a deal as you might think, and is certainly less than the JSF-Haters fantasize .  50th F-35 Center Fuselage Deli...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Deliver Us from Beancounters: Learning Curve Edition

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Learning Curves and Production Breaks Dancin' with 'Engineering_Economist' a.k.a. to me as ' EngeCon' again at Defense ...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Congressional Bloviation On The 'Concurrency Bogeyman'

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There's no 'There' there... I was initially going to post on this when it was first announced, then I decided to just let this ...
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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Centennial of Naval Aviation #4

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1920s Naval Parachute Demonstration Here's some views (click on all to enlarge) of an interesting photo of a parachute jump circa 1...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

DefenseTech Challenge Thread

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Updated and Bumped! (warning: what follows will be dry as dust unless you enjoy logic and tautology.) I had a somewhat whimsical response...
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I am a '3rd Generation Aerospace' Professional and a retired Air Force Senior NCO. I maintained and tested airborne precision guided weapons the first half of my Air Force career [including AIMVAL/ACEVAL, TASVAL79, AIM-9L FOT&E--IYAAYAS!] and flight tested RPVs, Drones and Cruise Missiles [XBQM-106A, Pave Tiger/Panther, CALCM, ACM and 'others'] the second half. Since my AF retirement I have worked on many aircraft, UAV and weapons programs. I have worked systems, flight, and laboratory test programs about half the time, and have worked R&M Engineering, Depot Operations, and Operations Analysis (Combat and Logistics) the other half, I am now the Lead Engineer xx x xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxx xxxx (doing 'stuff') on yet another major weapon systems program and still involved in a wide range of Aerospace Engineering and Military Operations Research activities for multiple programs.
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