Latest from Syria: mortars, anti-aircraft vehicles and (maybe) chemical weapons
After publishing the Special feature: all the weapons used by the Syrian regime on Homs, Bjørn Holst Jespersen, a contributor of The Aviationist, has continued to analyse the footage of the…
What is a Cyber Weapon?
We've been taking about Militarisation of cyberspace for some time now. This interesting article by Hackmageddon.com provides a model to classify cyber weapons in accordance with four parameters: Precision, Intrusion,…
40-year old Falklands, Iraq, Libya veteran Sea Dart missile makes its last firing
Introduced some 40 years ago, Sea Dart missile, a ship lunched anti-aircraft and anti-missiles with a range of around 80 miles, was fired for the last time on Apr. 13.…
Iran claims it has decoded the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 Drone Intel but provides unsubstantiated evidence to prove it.
Iran has decoded the U.S. stealthy drone intel? What? oh, umm...yeah...sure According to a FARS News Agency article published on Apr. 22, Iran has just finished deconding the intelligence gathering…
The ninth minute barrier: Pentagon releases Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 failed test report.
With a statement released on Apr. 20, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said that Mar. 20 failed test was (unsurprisingly) caused by the extremely high speeds. Launched from Vandenberg Air Force…
U.S. Air Force goes East: more than two dozen U.S. F-16s in Bulgaria for a month-long exercise with local Migs
Eight years since President George W. Bush congratulated the prime ministers of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia for becoming NATO members, Bulgaria and United States continue to build…
