MS&T Magazine

Jul 17, 2024 | halldale.com | Atul Chandra

The Indian Air Force has inaugurated a new Weapon Systems School (WSS) at Air Force Station Begumpet, Hyderabad. The new WSS was inaugurated by Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari, Chief of the Air Staff and will cater to the training needs of the air force’s newly created Weapon Systems (WS) branch which was created in October 2022.

Jul 15, 2024 | halldale.com | Marty Kauchak

Compared to XR, AI and other high-profile, emerging technologies, data is prominent but remains largely unheralded as an enabler in broad programs throughout the aviation industry. But that current situation is changing.  This is the first in a series of short articles to raise the civil aviation training enterprise’s awareness of the importance of data in the digital forms it may take – be it text, numbers, audio and even video – to provide information.

Jul 10, 2024 | halldale.com | Marty Kauchak

The Ukrainian F-16 program gained a belated but major boost this July 10. During the NATO Public Forum in Washington, DC, nations have stepped up and solidified their commitment to donate F-16s to Ukraine and keep the weapons platform’s training program on course. Late yesterday, Norway announced its decision to donate six F-16s to the beleaguered nation. “We plan to start delivering the aircraft in the course of 2024,” said Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

Jul 10, 2024 | halldale.com | Marty Kauchak

On the heels of the of the recent enactment of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024, the US House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s Aviation Subcommittee convened a hearing entitled, “Eliminating Bottlenecks: Examining Opportunities to Recruit, Retain, and Engage Aviation Talent.” What’s important, is that while the FAA bill provided legislative direction, funding and other resources to address topics on this hearing’s agenda, the congressional body used the July 10 event to...

Jul 8, 2024 | halldale.com | Dim Jones

In 2010, MS&T’s Dim Jones visited the Air Battlespace Training Centre (ABTC) at RAF Waddington, at that time the host of the Iraq/Afghanistan era Distributed Synthetic Air-Land Training (DSALT), which ran until 2019. By then, the Defence Operational Training Capability (DOTC) programme had commenced, the air element of which (DOTC(A)) became known as Gladiator. MS&T reported progress on this in 2020 – but much water has flown under many bridges since then.