Rapid Fire 2010-06-09: Diesel-Electric Helos

Rapid Fire 2010-06-09: Diesel-Electric Helos

* A400M transport aircraft: What a long strange trip it’s been! * Don’t get no respect: Pentagon opposes US Senate bill giving USMC equal billing to US Navy in department’s title. * US State Department accepts first modernized S-61T helicopters. *...
Rapid Fire 2010-06-09: Diesel-Electric Helos

Taking Back The Infantry Half-km: Britain’s L129A1

SA80A2s, Iraq(click to view full) If fighting in Iraq was mostly about Close Quarters Battle, experience on the ground in Afghanistan is driving home the opposite imperative: marksmanship and lethality at range. US studies like the influential “Taking Back the...