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A bed, a bunker, and a dishka, what more can a man want? Congressman Jim Marshall visits Special Forces in Afghanistan

The Dshka is the Russian equivalent of the .50 caliber machine gun and is a quite effective weapon. The title quote comes from a superb article in this month’s Special Operations Technology by Congressman Jim Marshall , Democrat from Georgia’s 8 th District. Congressman Marshall, son and grandson of...

Posted to EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 02-20-2008
New tactical ultralight autogyro

C-LVL is working on a small rugged tactical autogyro. We based our design on a civilian model and modified it extensively to build a working ultralight (lifting body, crash proof cabin,efficient powerful turbocharged Rotax engine, hard-points, ...). The TOAD (Tactical Organic Airborne Demonstrator) has...

Posted to general airpower and COIN comments (Forum) by KFRtoad on 02-06-2008
Air Force General says fighting in Congress and Pentagon harder than the battlefield

h/t to this Defense Tech post by writer David Axe who has a blog called “War is boring” and this post here takes the US Air Force to task for it’s inability to understand counter-insurgency and how and when airpower should be applied. He highlights the Air Combat Commander, General Ronald Keys from a...

Posted to EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 09-04-2007
new article in SOTECH magazine on COIN aircraft

An article in the well written Special Operations Technology magazine titled IRAQI COIN: The U.S. Air Force is taking the lead in the search for a suitable platform to perform counter insurgency and ISR missions for the Iraqi Air Force. There are only a few platforms that are suitable for the role and...

Posted to general airpower and COIN comments (Forum) by Otto on 08-27-2007
Report says Blackwater will acquire Super Tucano aircraft

as previously posted by eagle eyed EXCALIBUR contributor WHB on 26 July, according to Danger Room blog here , Blackwater is acquiring Super Tucano's for a new training Program. The source of the information is a Jane's Defence Weekly story (which requires subscription) and goes on to say that...

Posted to general airpower and COIN comments (Forum) by Otto on 08-27-2007
Boots--boots--boots--boots--movin' up an' down again (from the Rudyard Kipling poem famous to me from resistance training!)

While researching a future post, I came across this utterly fascinating and eerily prescient report from July 1998 and published by the Army War College entitled “CHALLENGING THE UNITED STATES SYMMETRICALLY AND SYMMETRICALLY: CAN AMERICA BE DEFEATED?” The whole thing is worth a read and for those studying...

Posted to EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 08-26-2007
Army LTC John Nagl interviewed on The Daily Show

US Army LTC John Nagl interviewed on the Daily Show by Jon Stewart. Nagl is author of “Learning to eat soup with a knife” (which I sheepishly admit I have not read) is a very well regarded look at our military and counterinsurgency. What I really loved about this was both men played it straight down...

Posted to EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 08-24-2007
Combat Reformers take me to task!

Mike Sparks, an Army Reserve Officer, has contacted me about some of the statements I make on the AT-6C project briefing. Mike is the lead individual behind the site called “Combat Reform” and their main site is here: http://www.combatreform.com/aesindex.htm They are passionate proponents for various...

Posted to general airpower and COIN comments (Forum) by Otto on 08-16-2007
Progress? at a glacial pace....

Here is an article in the AF Times featuring the first Iraqi (Edit) Afghan Air Corps trainee to be sent to the US for pilot training, a subject we have extensively covered. According to the article: The program, sponsored by the Secretary of the Air Force International Affairs office at the Pentagon...

Posted to general airpower and COIN comments (Forum) by Otto on 08-15-2007
AF Irregular Warfare Doctrine published

Once again h/t to Small Wars Journal, here is their link to Air Force Doctrine Document 2-3 dated 1 August 2007 . I have not read it yet but wanted to post it.

Posted to general airpower and COIN comments (Forum) by Otto on 08-11-2007

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