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Secretive X-37B is launched for a third classified mission around the planet

Dec. 11 saw the third launch of Boeing’s X-37B, the unmanned, reusable, mini-shuttle orbiter. The space plane was launched atop an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, just after…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
December 11, 2012
Aircraft Carriers

Video of Unmanned Combat Air System X-47B Taxi at Sea shows the future of naval aviation

The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air Systems (UCAS) demonstrator is currently conducting trials on the on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) at sea.…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 11, 2012
Military Aviation

Cool GoPro video brings you onboard “Kubinka Diamond” display team’s Su-27, Mig-29 fighter jets

The following video was filmed with a GoPro HD Hero2 camera installed on the tail of a Mig-29 and inside the cockpit of a Su-27 of the so-called "Kubinka Diamond",…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 11, 2012
Military Aviation

Photo: U-2 spyplane gets Christmas decoration at Beale Air Force Base, California

Even the austere, spooky, U-2 spyplanes at Beale Air Force Base, California, got decorations for Christmas. The following image, shows a 9th Reconnaissance Wing's two-seater U-2 "Dragon Lady" with a…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 10, 2012
Military Aviation

Boeing P-8A Poseidon Approaches U.S. Navy Fleet Operations

The Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft is nearing fleet service with the U.S. Navy (USN). USN VP-16 is approaching completion of a training syllabus at…

Michael Glynn Michael Glynn
December 10, 2012
Captured Stealth Drone

If Iran has decoded all data in the captured U.S. stealth RQ-170 drone it’s no big deal

In the last of a series of similar claims, a senior Iranian commander announced that Tehran has just extracted all the data stored in the RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone which…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 10, 2012
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