Grand Forks, North Dakota, to become a Predator hotbed for drone-fired lasers
The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has finally given the go ahead for the use of remotely-piloted Predator drones in the airspace above 10,000 acres in North Dakota. According to an…
Video: U.S. Navy initial flight (and heavy landing) of the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator.
On Jul. 29 (or Jul.30 - the news release and the footage have a different timestamp), the U.S. Navy made history after it conducted the Naval Air Station Patuxent River's…
Syrian Arab Air Force trainer jets turned into attack planes to strike rebel positions
On Jul. 24, the L-39 Albatros, mistakenly identified by several media outlets as "Migs", made their first appearance in the Syrian skies. Since then, many videos uploaded to Youtube have…
Video: Red Flag night launch and recovery time lapse (spanning about 5 hours or so in just 3 minutes).
Brought to my attention by Jeff Merkowitz, the following video combines about 5 hours of night launches and recoveries from Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, north of Las Vegas, in…
China's new carrier-borne Airborne Early Warning aircraft can't operate from an aircraft carrier
A couple of interesting images were published on some interesting Chinese defense forum of what appears to be a testbed for a carrier-borne Airborne Early Warning aircraft. Is this a…
British pilots flew armed U.S drones during the Libyan conflict
Several online news outlets, including the British Newspaper The Guardian, have been running news articles stating that British exchange pilots in the U.S flew armed American Predator drones during the…
