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Drones

Drones used as Proxies to get around ISP blocking and law enforcement: Predator's to add server payload?

Nearly in contemporary with the breaking news that a judge in New Zealand’s High Court has declared that the order used to seize Kim Dotcom’s assets is “null and void”,…

Paolo Passeri Paolo Passeri
March 19, 2012

Ryan Aeronautical photo archive traces development of combat drones from the factory floor to deployment in southeast Asia

Founded by T. Claude Ryan in 1934, part of Teledyne from 1969 and purchased by Northrop Grumman in 1999, Ryan Aeronautical company has designed, developed and built some of the…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 19, 2012
Drones

New Iranian drone capable of carrying out military and border patrol missions announced. Soon in the Syrian airspace?

On Mar. 17, a FARS News Agency article announced the production of the Shaparak (Butterfly), a new drone that can perform a wide variety of missions, including surveillance and border…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 19, 2012
Military Aviation

KC-767 boom operator’s stereoscopic vision goggles: introducing the Remote Vision System

As already explained in the previous post about the KC-767, unlike all the previous boom-equipped tankers, the NextGen Tanker uses an adveniristic remote boom operator's station located behind the cockpit.…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 18, 2012
Italian Air Force

A brand new, combat-proven, next generation tanker: on board Italy’s Boeing KC-767A

Although based on a quite mature civil airliner, the brand new KC-767 is a revolutionary type of aerial refueler. Indeed, in the KC-46 variant, it will be used by the…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 18, 2012
Military Aviation

RAF's weapon of choice in Libya to be upgraded as export opportunities emerge

MBDA has announced it is to work on a successor to Brimstone the fire and forget anti-armour missile that had a starring role in the Air War over Libya. During…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
March 17, 2012
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