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USS Benfold Leaves Japan After Returning from Power Failure Repairs
by mgbrattland＠gerlecreek.com 18 Aug '26

18 Aug '26

https://news.usni.org/2026/08/17/uss-benfold-leaves-japan-after-returning-fr om-power-failure-repairs

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Steam Catss
by mgbrattland＠gerlecreek.com 14 Aug '26

14 Aug '26

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Food for thought
by Marc Liebman 13 Aug '26

13 Aug '26

https://understandingwar.org/analysis/cognitive-warfare/ Marc Liebman https://www.marcliebman.com https://www.facebook.com/marcliebmanauthor/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_sDoFQM5wupNaCeGIvKL1g Author of: Cherubs 2 Raider of the Scottish Coast Big Mother 40 Carronade Render Harmless Death of a Lady Forgotten Last Battles Inner Look For a Few Francs Moscow Airlift Predators The Simushir Island Incident Fight We Shall Flight of the Pawnee Prices of Opportunity Failure to Fire Insidious Dragon The Red Star of Death Member of: The Author’s Guild Military Writers Society of America Association of Texas Authors North American Snowsport Journalists Association --

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Latest from ISW on Iran
by Marc Liebman 11 Aug '26

11 Aug '26

https://understandingwar.org/research/middle-east/iran-update-special-repor… This article exposes the fallacies of the strategy attack, try to negotiate, fail, attack, rinse and repeat. The pauses gave the IRGS, Artesh and Basij time to breathe, reconstitute and reorganize. Marc Liebman https://www.marcliebman.com https://www.facebook.com/marcliebmanauthor/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_sDoFQM5wupNaCeGIvKL1g Author of: Cherubs 2 Raider of the Scottish Coast Big Mother 40 Carronade Render Harmless Death of a Lady Forgotten Last Battles Inner Look For a Few Francs Moscow Airlift Predators The Simushir Island Incident Fight We Shall Flight of the Pawnee Prices of Opportunity Failure to Fire Insidious Dragon The Red Star of Death Member of: The Author’s Guild Military Writers Society of America Association of Texas Authors North American Snowsport Journalists Association --

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FW: Gen Mattis on Iran
by mgbrattland＠gerlecreek.com 09 Aug '26

09 Aug '26

From: andy.cain(a)comcast.net <andy.cain(a)comcast.net> Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2026 2:26 PM To: andy.cain(a)comcast.net Subject: Gen Mattis on Iran Worth a listen. <https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1C56WaKRQi/> https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1C56WaKRQi/

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Drones
by mgbrattland＠gerlecreek.com 09 Aug '26

09 Aug '26

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/06/navy-removes-the -head-of-its-drone-program-just-8-months-into-her-tenure/

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Submarine Drone Nets
by mgbrattland＠gerlecreek.com 08 Aug '26

08 Aug '26

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FW: New Sikorsky Helicopter design features
by mgbrattland＠gerlecreek.com 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

From: Harold Brattland <habrattland(a)arvig.net> Sent: Friday, August 7, 2026 9:48 AM To: Brattland, Mike * <mgbrattland(a)gerlecreek.com> Subject: New Sikorsky Helicopter design features Mike, You had passed around an item on Advanced Blade contract for the VH-92. Design was to enhance higher altitude ops and probably faster cruise as well. If you note on this advanced model for NATO, these are advanced design blades. No longer same shape for whole length and only tips larger and angles. Variations in width and shape, The artist's model doesn't show much technically, but indicates that advanced modeling is to be included in new aircraft! Looks like the design is continuing the "Flattened" profile fuselage, so likely would also work for ship-borne forces......maybe... h -- * Sikorsky NGRC Rotorcraft Tony Osborne <https://aviationweek.com/author/tony-osborne> July 17, 2026 <https://aviationweek.com/sites/default/files/styles/crop_freeform/public/20…> This conventional single main rotor design was one of two concepts proposed by Sikorsky for NGRC. Credit: Sikorsky

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FW: Aviation Week :: Archer Flies Piloted Midnight Between Salinas And Monterey
by mgbrattland＠gerlecreek.com 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

From: Harold Brattland <habrattland(a)arvig.net> Sent: Friday, August 7, 2026 9:52 AM To: Brattland, Mike * <mgbrattland(a)gerlecreek.com> Subject: Aviation Week :: Archer Flies Piloted Midnight Between Salinas And Monterey Check out this site https://aviationweek.com/business-aviation/maintenance-training/archer-flie… -- Archer Flies Piloted Midnight Between Salinas And Monterey Ben Goldstein <https://aviationweek.com/author/Ben-Goldstein> August 03, 2026 <https://aviationweek.com/sites/default/files/styles/crop_freeform/public/20…> A view from Midnight’s cockpit during Archer’s roundtrip journey between Salinas and Monterey. Credit: Archer Aviation Archer Aviation has completed a piloted roundtrip flight <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPLN8XrPq9E> between Salinas Municipal Airport and Monterey Regional Airport in California, using conventional runway takeoffs and landings as it prepares for potential operations under the White House’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program. The aircraft, Midnight N703AX, completed each leg of the July 30 trip in about 9 min., compared with a drive Archer said can take more than 35 min. The flights were conducted in coordination with the FAA. “This roundtrip journey is exactly the kind of route we plan to fly with Midnight under the eIPP and in LA during the Olympic Games,” Archer founder and CEO Adam Goldstein said in a statement. “This mission provides a template for us to replicate with our partners across Texas, Florida and New York as we get ready for eIPP operations later this year.” The demonstration marked the first airport-to-airport mission for Midnight, but it did not include vertical takeoff or landing. Archer has not yet completed a piloted transition flight with Midnight from thrustborne hover into wingborne cruise. That remains an important distinction as several of its main competitors including Joby Aviation, Beta Technologies and Vertical Aerospace have already completed piloted transition flights. Archer has previously said it plans to conduct Midnight’s piloted transition during the second half of 2026. The flight comes as Archer broadens its focus beyond the civil air taxi market through the newly unveiled Halo and Thunder hybrid-electric tiltrotor aircraft. <https://aviationweek.com/sites/default/files/styles/author_thumbnail/public…> Ben Goldstein <https://aviationweek.com/author/Ben-Goldstein> Email: ben.goldstein(a)aviationweek.com <mailto:ben.goldstein@aviationweek.com> Based in Rhode Island, Ben covers advanced air mobility and is a contributor to Aviation Week’s Business Aviation & AAM Report.

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FW: Aviation Week :: NATO Rotorcraft Program Enters Competitive Concept Design Phase
by mgbrattland＠gerlecreek.com 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

From: Harold Brattland <habrattland(a)arvig.net> Sent: Friday, August 7, 2026 9:20 AM To: Brattland, Mike * <mgbrattland(a)gerlecreek.com> Subject: Aviation Week :: NATO Rotorcraft Program Enters Competitive Concept Design Phase Two articles...for Bubba to get off the Iran subject... Check out this site https://aviationweek.com/defense/aircraft-propulsion/nato-rotorcraft-progra… -- NATO Rotorcraft Program Enters Competitive Concept Design Phase Tony Osborne <https://aviationweek.com/author/tony-osborne> August 03, 2026 <https://aviationweek.com/sites/default/files/styles/crop_freeform/public/20…> Credit: Leonardo LONDON—The NATO-led effort to develop a replacement for Europe’s battlefield utility and naval helicopters has entered a competitive phase. Airbus, Boeing <https://aviationweek.com/term/boeing> , Leonardo and Sikorsky and their teams of partners and suppliers are set to develop and deliver a new set of detailed concept design solutions <https://aviationweek.com/defense/aircraft-propulsion/airbus-boeing-leonardo…> for the alliance’s Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability (NGRC). That program could lead to the development of a new medium rotorcraft that would operate on Europe’s battlefields and at sea from a warship. The four airframers have already successfully pre-qualified to enter the Concept Design phase and will have until the end of August 2027 to respond to the request for proposals. These rotorcraft solutions will be developed against a refined set of undisclosed requirements. Once returned they will be evaluated by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) through a new acquisition process called “Acquisition by Qualified Options.” Under this arrangement, proposed solutions will be scored based on a pre-defined weighting. Once evaluated, the NSPA will refer to the nations for their final decision on the next steps toward further development and an industrial program that could be launched by the end of the decade. The current NGRC participants are Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK. NATO formally launched the NGRC initiative in 2022 following several years of multinational pre-concept studies led by the UK. Similar initiatives in the late 1980s were the genesis of what ultimately became the NATO Helicopter for the 90s—now the NHIndustries NH90, developed by Airbus, Leonardo and Fokker. What emerges from NGRC could go on to replace around 1,000 helicopters of different types currently in service with NATO nations. These could include Airbus Puma-family platforms, Mil Mi-8/17, Sikorsky UH-60/S-70s, Leonardo AW101s and the NH90. Three of the four interested companies had already participated in NATO’s Study 5 developing a series of rotorcraft concepts based on an earlier set of requirements. Each of the bidders in Study 5 had the option to provide two concepts. Both the Airbus and Sikorsky teams provided two—one a conventional rotorcraft, the other based on their compound rotorcraft technologies—while the Leonardo/Bell team provided a single proposal, based on their tiltrotor technology as reported by Aviation Week last November <https://aviationweek.com/defense/aircraft-propulsion/industry-concepts-refi…> . Last month, Sikorsky declared it would be entering the concept design phase <https://aviationweek.com/defense/aircraft-propulsion/sikorsky-proposes-prod…> and said that if its proposals were selected by the nations, it would locate development, production and component manufacturing for the aircraft in Europe, without specifying a location. Sikorsky had proposed a conventional single main rotor platform and another based on its X2 compound technology combining a co-axial rotor system and pusher propeller. <https://aviationweek.com/sites/default/files/styles/author_thumbnail/public…> Tony Osborne <https://aviationweek.com/author/tony-osborne> Email: tony.osborne(a)aviationweek.com <mailto:tony.osborne@aviationweek.com> Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sikorsky Proposes Production Of NGRC Rotorcraft In Europe Tony Osborne <https://aviationweek.com/author/tony-osborne> July 17, 2026 <https://aviationweek.com/sites/default/files/styles/crop_freeform/public/20…> This conventional single main rotor design was one of two concepts proposed by Sikorsky for NGRC. Credit: Sikorsky Sikorsky would commit to opening helicopter production facilities in Europe if its proposals for NATO’s Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability (NGRC) are selected by the partner nations. In a July 16 announcement ahead of the Farnborough Airshow <https://aviationweek.com/shownews/airshow-news> and the upcoming launch of the NGRC Concept Design phase by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), the airframer says it would develop, produce and conduct component manufacturing in Europe, although it does not say where these facilities would be located. Sikorsky would also “partner with leading European aerospace firms, industry and suppliers as part of a robust, locally sourced NGRC production line,” it says. The NGRC aims to replace around 1,000 medium helicopters of different types currently in service with NATO nations from the late 2030s and 2040s. Previous collaborations in the late 1980s were the genesis of what ultimately became the NATO Helicopter for the 1990s—now the NHIndustries NH90 developed by Airbus, Leonardo and Fokker. Sikorsky is one of four airframers that have been approved to enter the Concept Design phase after passing a pre-qualification assessment at the end of 2025. Other successful bidders include Airbus, Boeing <https://aviationweek.com/term/boeing> and Leonardo. This phase, to be launched imminently, will develop a new set of detailed concept design solutions for the future rotorcraft based on a series of refined and harmonized requirements currently under development. When these are delivered back to NSPA by the bidders in mid-2027, they will be evaluated and scored based on a predefined weighting. NSPA, as contracting authority, will perform the evaluation of the proposals and will come back to the nations for their decisions. NGRC nations include France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and Canada. The U.S. and Spain are currently observers. In an earlier concept stage, Sikorsky proposed two rotorcraft configurations: one conventional single main rotor and another based on the company’s X2 compound technology, which uses a coaxial main rotor and a pusher propellor for high-speed flight. X2 technology had previously been offered for the U.S. Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft, but was rejected by the service in favor of Bell’s tiltrotor design. “We are committed to strengthening our strategic partnerships, expanding industrial capacity and deepening our long-term presence in Europe,” said Dennis Goege, Lockheed Martin’s chief executive for Europe. “Local production supports a highly skilled regional workforce, reinforces Europe’s defense industrial base and enhances NATO readiness,” he added. Sikorsky already has a production capability in Europe through its ownership of PZL-Mielec in Poland, which builds the S-70 Black Hawk. Beyond Europe, Sikorsky says it is also pushing a global variant of its NGRC X2 proposal in Asia. <https://aviationweek.com/sites/default/files/styles/author_thumbnail/public…> Tony Osborne <https://aviationweek.com/author/tony-osborne> Email: tony.osborne(a)aviationweek.com <mailto:tony.osborne@aviationweek.com> Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

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