[Photo] Eight Russian combat planes skirted Estonian airspace on their way to huge Zapad 2013 exercise
According to the Eastonian newspaper Eesti Päevaleht eight Russian Air Force planes flew close (or at least closer than usual) to the Estonia's airspace on Sept. 16, 2013. The aircraft…
Iran will soon display upgraded copy of the captured U.S. stealth RQ-170 drone
In February 2013, a video, aired by an Iranian TV proved that Iran had accessed some of the data stored inside the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 drone captured in December 2011.…
Iran’s Air Defense Force Displays Indigenous Radar System Capable to Detect Stealth Aircraft
On Sunday Sept. 22, 2013, during the annual military parade in Tehran that marks the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, Iran displayed a new indigenous passive…
“Immense” Russian – Belarusian military exercise (possibly focused on neutralizing an ethnic unrest) taking place in eastern Europe
Named Zapad-2013, an exercise whose aims to strenghten the regional safety and relations between Belarus and Russia is taking place between Sept. 20 and 26 in Eastern Europe. The scale…
In 1961 a U.S. Air Force B-52 Almost Detonated An Atomic Bomb Over North Carolina
A low voltage switch saved the U.S. from a nuclear Armageddon. The UK Newspaper The Guardian has released details under the freedom of information act, which chronicle how on Jan.…
“Scorpion”: Cessna’s new, low cost tactical strike aircraft (with some F-14 Tomcat inputs)
Cessna parent company Textron has (secretly) developed a new tactical strike aircraft capable to replace current, costly combat planes in low lethality scenarios and homeland security mission: "irregular warfare," border…
