By Tanmay Kadam December 6, 2022 Australia’s fifth-generation F-35 stealth fighter jets have again come under the scanner due to concerns related to their cost, capabilities, and viability for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). A senior Australian journalist, Brian Toohey, who has been writing extensively for Australia’s national security policy since 1973, has criticized […]
By Michael Marrow October 6, 2022 The Air Force has certified an initial design for the F-35A to carry nuclear bombs, Inside Defense has learned, putting the service months ahead of its January 2023 goal. The Air Force Nuclear Weapon Center approved the certification on Sept. 29 for the platform to carry the B61-12 thermonuclear gravity bomb, […]
September 15, 2022 SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. — A Vermont Air Guard pilot made history this week at 20,000 feet after she became the first woman in the National Guard to pilot an F-35 fighter jet. Last week, the Air National Guard welcomed 1st lieutenant Kelsey Flannery to their ranks. Flannery, a 30-year-old former boxing instructor […]
A long-awaited decision that began in 2019 has been made by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington today, August 2, 2022. It is the consequential ruling the community had hoped for validating community complaints and Navy inactions in following the law. A press release from Citizen’s of Ebey’s Reserve (COER), member […]
By: Sam Tabahriti July 31, 2022 The F-35 is the most powerful – and most expensive – fighter jet of all time. Russia and China would love to have them as would any nation that can get them or afford them. But there have been some clear bumps along the way: The US Air Force […]
By: Mike Hoey July 30, 2022 The Vermont National Guard is inspecting its F-35 fighter jets to determine if a potential safety problem is affecting them. The U.S. Air Force has temporarily grounded all of its F-35s, while the Navy and Marine Corps have also grounded some of theirs, due to a concern with their […]
By Wilson Ring May 4, 2022 SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. — The first overseas deployment of the Vermont Air National Guard’s F-35 fighter jets will have the pilots and their aircraft patrolling the skies of Europe during one of the most tense periods in recent history. More than 200 Vermont air guard personnel, their equipment and […]
By Cypress Hansen Feb 12, 2021 In 2011, Germany’s Frankfurt Airport — the country’s busiest — unveiled its fourth runway. The addition sparked major protests, with demonstrators returning to the airport every Monday for years. “It’s destroying my life,” one protester told Reuters a year later. “Every time I go into my garden, all I […]
By Andrew Cockburn April 8, 2022 It is now generally acknowledged that the F-35 fighter stands tall in the pantheon of U.S. weapons-buying disasters, a mélange of waste, deceit, and mindless incompetence. According to the latest report from the Pentagon’s Director of Test and Evaluation, itself a muted document, the plane has at least […]
By Talia Heisey Feb 16 2022 Some Burlington-area residents were roused from slumber early Wednesday morning as Utah-based F-35s took off from the Vermont Air National Guard base in South Burlington en route to Germany. The F-35s will “bolster readiness, enhance NATO’s collective defense posture and further increase air integration capabilities with Allied and Partner […]