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EA-35? Not so fast.

By Andrew Tilghman on October 23, 2009 Aviation, Carriers, Navy, Science and technology

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 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter for electronic warfare. But I was over at the annual Electronic Warfare conference this past week and bounced that idea off an EW expert from the Joint Electronic Warfare Center and he called the idea “ridiculous.” The jamming signals emitted by the EW pods are “loud” and make the aircraft easily identifiable on any radar, he said. Why would we spend billions…

It's take 3 for space shot

By Gidget Fuentes on July 10, 2009 NASA, Navy, Officers, Science and technology, SEALs

It’s probably a good thing that NASA’s pool of astronauts include quite a few military officers. Who better to understand the “hurry up and wait” lifestyle that is the military? We told you last month about preparations for the planned June 13 launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, whose seven-member crew of space sailors, including only the second Navy SEAL to ever venture into space, will do a 16-day mission that will haul parts of Japan’s Kibo laboratory to the International Space Station. But hydrogen leaks in a gas vent line leading to the exterior fuel tank forced NASA…

F-35: Bells and whistles for all

By Andrew Tilghman on June 15, 2009 Aviation, Foreign navies, Navy, Science and technology, Washington

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 sell all of those bells and whistles to all of the eight foreign militaries that are also buying the F-35. So I posed the question to Cheryl Limrick, the spokeswoman over at the JSF office. Will all of the F-35 international customers really have the same, peer capabilities? Or will the U.S. keep any of the technology for itself? She said: “All JSF participants (US and…

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