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What is good for defense contractors is not necessarily good for the military, nor the taxpayer, they are supposed to serve. Consider the F-35 program, which was supposed to deliver a jet that would make all other military jets obsolete. It has yet to do so, and the failures of the program sustainability speak to the idea that we need diversity in our procurement.
In the April 18, 2024 issue of The Telegraph, journalist Cameron Henderson published an article titled “History made as U.S. Military conducts first ever human vs AI dogfight”, and reported something that profoundly disturbs me. He wrote that in September 2023, a USAF F-16 fighter pilot went through a series of engagements with another F-16 controlled by Artificial Intelligence (AI). He said: “Travelling at speeds of up to 1,200 miles per hour, the two jets practised both defensive and offensive scenarios as well as within-visual-range combat, known as dogfighting. At one point they came...
Severe spring storms will bring heavy rain and thunder to the Plains and into the Mississippi Valley this weekend — including possible powerful tornadoes, large hail and flooding.
It's a sight not seen in Sacramento skies for more than twenty years. For the second week in a row, an entire air wing of large military jets landed at McClellan Park.
Maybe, with a little bit of exposure, kids will consider life as a soldier, sailor, airman, Marine or guardian. That was part of the mission last Friday at the Student Engagement and Career Day held at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., and at a career fair in New Bern, N.C.