Monday, December 28, 2009

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- December 28, 2009

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F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Critics Fail History -- F-16.net

December 28, 2009 (by Eric L. Palmer) - Criticising the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program isn’t especially useful if the people doing it are just flat wrong in their assumptions. Take for instance an article penned by Winslow T. Wheeler and Pierre M. Sprey in the The Huffington Post called, “A Tale of Two Pigs”.

In it, the authors start out by leading anyone ignorant of air combat history to believe that certain aircraft were failures and that this somehow compares to an aircraft that doesn’t have a combat record to speak of; the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

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MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE NEWS BRIEFS

Who’s Gonna Get the Army’s New Combat Pant? -- Defense Tech

The USA’s New Littoral Combat Ships (updated) - -Defense Industry Daily

Is Germany Losing Its Air-Defence Capability? -- Defence Professionals

Russian Test of Upgraded Voevoda Missile Deemed Success - -Defense News

Russian military to receive Il-476 heavy transport planes in 2012 -- RIA Novosti

Malaysian air force personnel steal and sell jet engine -- Aviation Week

Top Ten PICTURE Stories of 2009 -- Flight Global

Troops Want a Return to COIN in Afghanistan -- New Wars

Former British PM Blair to Testify Before Iraq Inquiry -- Global Security Newswire

Adultery And Screwing Subordinates -- Strategy Page

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