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A Second Look – Aviation Week Debate on the F-35
Blown Slick Series #12 Last summer Aviation Week conducted a podcast debate between the first commanding officer of a USMC F-35B squadron, retired LtCol. David Berke, and former “fighter mafia” participant during the Light Weight Fighter competition (YF-16/17) Pierre Sprey. … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Blown Slick Series
Tagged A2AD, Airpower, Attack, Close Air Support, Fighter, SEAD
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Memorial Day 2015: Mondo and Arlo
Sometimes on days like today, I find myself lost in the abstract –service to country, freedom, sacrifice, the flags, the tombstones of Arlington. The feelings are not wrong, indeed they are most important and necessary, but at the base are … Continue reading
Posted in Memorials, People, Special Days, War and Remembrance
Tagged Aircraft Carriers, Attack, Vietnam Air War
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BLOWN SLICK – Light Attack Fast Pursuit; Airpower Analysis by Boris
Blown Slick Series#4 “… it has been decades since the last significant contribution to airpower theory. Given the shifting character of war and rapid technological change, a solid modern airpower theory will be required for the West to achieve strategic … Continue reading
Posted in Blown Slick Series
Tagged A2AD, Aircraft Carriers, Airpower, AirSeaBattle, Attack, Close Air Support, F-35, Fifth Generation Fighter, Fighter, Strike Warfare, Vietnam Air War, War-at-Sea
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The “Fighter Pilot”
Blown Slick Series #2 The first post for the Blown Slick series made the point that the series is about attack – missions and pilots, so you might ask why “fighter pilots?” Words in this case can deceive. Please read … Continue reading
Posted in Blown Slick Series, War and Remembrance
Tagged Airpower, Attack, Fifth Generation Fighter, Fighter, Strike Warfare, Vietnam Air War
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The Mission of “Attack” – The Blown Slick Series Introduction
Blown Slick Series #1 (See also : Preface to Blown Slick -the series: The evolution of fighter, attack, and strike warfare) He would go on to be Vice Chief of Naval Operations and head the FAA, but in mid-December 1971 … Continue reading
Posted in Blown Slick Series, War and Remembrance
Tagged A2AD, Airpower, AirSeaBattle, Attack, Close Air Support, F-35, Fifth Generation Fighter, Fighter, SEAD, Strike Warfare, Vietnam Air War, War-at-Sea
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The Last Corsair: Fly Low, Hit Hard
The Helenic Air Force will retire the last A-7 Corsair II on October 17, 2014 after 39 years in Hellenic skies and 49 years of global service. The videos below highlight some great low level flying … Continue reading
Posted in Testimony of Pilot - RS previously published, War and Remembrance
Tagged Airpower, Attack, Close Air Support, Strike Warfare, Vietnam Air War
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153241
I can never pass up the artist booths at airshows. Last weekend at the Camarillo Air Show (lead guy was Bill Thomas, President of the Corsair II Association) I visited Christopher Cross’s both of airbrush aviation art. Picture above caught … Continue reading
Posted in War and Remembrance
Tagged Airpower, Attack, Close Air Support, Strike Warfare, Vietnam Air War, War-at-Sea
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Morning After Reflection: 5 June 1942 “we sank a carrier”
They had no right to win. Yet they did, and in doing so they changed the course of a war. More than that, they added a new name— Midway— to that small list that inspires men by shining example. Like … Continue reading
Posted in War and Remembrance, Year of the Carrier
Tagged Aircraft Carriers, Airpower, Attack, Battle of Midway, Strike Warfare, War-at-Sea
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Year of War- Reflection
(Please note that this is being posted on 25 March 2015, after reflection on previous offerings) Remembered Sky began so as to tell the ’72-’73 story of USS Midway, Carrier Airwing Five and to further focus primarily on the Attack … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Testimony of Pilot - RS previously published, War and Remembrance
Tagged Aircraft Carriers, Airpower, Attack, Close Air Support, Fighter, Linebacker I & II, Not On My Watch, POWs, Remembered Sky, Rolling Thunder, Strike Warfare, USS Midway, Vietnam Air War
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Operation Homecoming Part 9: The POW 40th Reunion
If as Ev Alvarez offers in the interview from Part 8, the POWs have held their last reunion, I want to preserve for further reference the panel discussion. POW Panel at the Nixon Library