Russia prepares to conduct at least five test launches of new Sarmat missile in the next year.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/10/30/russia-prepares-satan-2-ballistic-missile-tests-a67967

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/air-force-getting-new-new-air-air-missile-91956
AIM-260 is said to be an extended range missile with multi-mode seeker. Such missiles are large and would not increase the number of shots carried by a tactical jet. Likely required by Navy, which is terrified of getting their big gray floaty things sunk.
Will there be another missile which meets the SACM requirements?
$34 billion contract for 478 F-35s has been awarded.
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The Navy’s last active-duty patrol squadron to operate the Lockheed P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft has returned from deployment and soon will begin transition to the Boeing P-8A Poseidon.
Patrol Squadron 40 (VP-40) completed its return to Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island, Washington, on Oct. 10 from its deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet and U.S. 5th Fleet areas of operations.
VP-40 is the last of the existing 12 VP fleet squadrons to operate the P-3C. It will join those squadrons in flying the P-8A as it begins its transition with the fleet replacement squadron, VP-30 at NAS Jacksonville, Florida.
Boeing is in a tough spot.
Boeing designs their cockpit controls for aircrew with an extremely high level of training and understanding of aeronautics and aircraft systems. Boeing’s overly complex cockpits display lots of raw data and it is up to the aircrew to use their powers of comprehension/reasoning to pinpoint problems and implement the appropriate corrective action. This works well for the aircrew category composed of former USAF, USN, RAF, AdlA, RNAF, Luftwaffe, Aeronautica Militare, Ejército del Aire, FABCA, RCAF, Israeli AF and a few others. There have been B373 MAX air data issues where aforementioned tier 1 aircrew rapidly reasoned through the AD issue, disengaged runaway stabilizer trim and landed the jet safely.
But aircrew who have not been through the rigorous pilot training of those air forces may not have the depth of understanding to quickly ID and take appropriate action. There was a recent article (I forgot who wrote it) about this second category of aircrew becoming qualified to fly airliners through rote memorization and not understanding the principles of systems and aeronautics which allows quick ID and corrective action to be taken. For 737 MAX, Boeing did this second category of aircrew great disservice by failing to provide sufficient hardware/software redundancy and unambiguous cautions/warnings. When the entire instrument panel is blinking red and yellow, warnings are sounding and the control column is pushing forward, the second category of aircrew is overwhelmed and rote memorization of checklist steps fails in the critical seconds before a crash.
Boeing, in the near-term, will need to re-engineer 737 MAX to provide high redundant air data, unambiguous warnings/caution, and a simple set of emergency procedures which the second category of aircrew can easily implement. Boeing’ leadership has already said that their technical solution won’t be ready for flight test until early 2020. I think that may be optimistic. And who reimburses the airlines for all the lost revenue from those grounded jets?
The best long-term solution for Boeing would be to completely redesign the control scheme for future jets to operate as if they were for an autonomous UAV with the reliability required by FAR Part 121. That type of control scheme is one of the areas where military aviation is ahead of civilian aviation.

F-35 sea trials aboard the QE
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7568983/F-35-Lightning-jets-HMS-Queen-Elizabeth-operational-trials.html

F-35 sea trials on the QE.
I haven’t seen a forum this clunky since 1998 when all the commands had to be entered in BBCode. Has Key Aero regressed to that?
Really slow too.
You are correct. The forum software needs lots of work before it is usable.
The new format requires the user to be conversant in BBCode. A non user friendly throwback to 1998.
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That is the Lockheed/Boeing/General Dynamics publicity cartoon for their concept during the ATF competition in 1987 or ’88. The canard configuration was intentionally chosen as deception for YF-22’s true configuration.
1500 km is a figure which is not realistic for a stealthy, airborne system. That long range requires significant radiated power to maintain data link integrity (remember the R^2 rule). The transmitted radiated power means the airplane is no longer stealthy.
Lol. Germany is buying a helicopter-shaped jobs program, since NH-90 has low reliability and high operating cost.