A Better UAV Flight Plan
No one wants to deny ground or naval forces the power to see threats or targets. The real goal is to g
April 2007
Vol. 90, No. 4
Highlights from the April 2007 Issue
For the Air Force, the Bill Comes Due
Senior leaders say demands of war have finally caught up with the service.
The Risk Goes Up
Is the fighter force now too small to handle two wars at the same time?
Ramstein on the Rise
The critical importance of this German base has sparked a building and flying boom.
TACAIR Integration Hits the Wall
Big plans to combine Navy and Marine Corps air in a single operational force have come apart.
War in the Third Domain
The maneuver space is the electromagnetic spectrum, where forces range globally at the speed of light.
The In-Country War
In South Vietnam, airpower was subordinated to a ground strategy—and the ground strategy didn’t work.
The Defense Budget at a Glance (Fiscal 2008)
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Twenty Missions in Hell
The Leuna Werke, Germany’s key synthetic fuel plant, was a diabolical target for US airmen sent to bom
The Wars of Eighty-Two
In the South Atlantic and the Middle East, two short air wars taught some lasting lessons.
Constant Peg
A tale of purloined MiG fighters, secret desert airfields, and double-wide trailers ...
Washington Watch
The 20/$20 Billion Get Well Plan; Murtha’s Concerns; The Mobility Jumble ....
Aerospace World
Afghan Crash Kills Airman Air Force TSgt. Scott E. Duffman, of Albuquerque, N.M., perished Feb. 18 while on duty in Afghanistan. Duffman, assigned to the 24th Special Tactics Squadron at Pope AFB, N.C., died in the crash of a CH-47...
Verbatim
Dawn Patrol “Aircraft designers have mimicked many of nature’s flight ‘inventions,’ usually inadvertently. Now it seems likely that Microraptor invented the biplane 125 million years before the Wright 1903 Flyer.”—Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, on fossil evidence that a...
Action in Congress
Stacked Decks, Poisoned Water; Equalizing Education Benefits; Expanding CR ....
Bf 109
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The Putin Manifesto
Vladimir Putin President, Russian Federation Conference on Security Policy Munich, Germany Feb. 10, 2007 FULL TEXT VERSION The audience was warned; Vladimir Putin had said he would “avoid excessive politeness.” Still, many were startled when the Russian President loosed an...
Letters
Ghost Dance My compliments on your excellent editorial, “Ghost Dance at the Apocalypse,” February 2007 [p. 2], which objectively addressed the Kissinger/Schultz/Perry/Nunn call for US leadership in creating a “world free of nuclear weapons.” Ultimately, their proposal rests on the...
Complete Contents of April 2007 PDF
PDF Downloads are an Air & Space Forces Association member benefit.A Better UAV Flight Plan
No one wants to deny ground or naval forces the power to see threats or targets. The real goal is to get the most out of each UAV.
Washington Watch
The 20/$20 Billion Get Well Plan; Murtha's Concerns; The Mobility Jumble ...
For the Air Force, the Bill Comes Due
Senior leaders say demands of war have finally caught up with the service.
The Risk Goes Up
Is the fighter force now too small to handle two wars at the same time?
Ramstein on the Rise
The critical importance of this German base has sparked a building and flying boom.
Tacair Integration Hits the Wall
Big plans to combine Navy and Marine Corps air in a single operational force have come apart.
War in the Third Domain
The maneuver space is the electromagnetic spectrum, where forces range globally at the speed of light.
The In-Country War
In South Vietnam, airpower was subordinated to a ground strategy-and the ground strategy didn 't work.
Defense Budget Chart Pages
Here is the new defense budget at a glance.
Twenty Missions in Hell
The Leuna Werke, Germany's key synthetic fuel plant, was a diabolical target for US airmen sent to bomb it.
The Wars of Eighty-Two
In the South Atlantic and the Middle East, two short air wars taught some lasting lessons.
Constant Peg
A tale of purloined MiG fighters, secret desert airfields, and double-wide trailers ...
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