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Covert US drone operations tracked in real time, via Twitter. Exposing tactics too.

The social networking medium of Twitter is becoming a bit of a nightmare for covert CIA drone operations in the Yemen.  In fact, in near real time, each time a…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
May 20, 2012

Video: B-2 stealth bomber ground operations at Nellis's Red Flag

An interesting video showing B-2 Spirit bombers, belonging to the 509 BW from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, being prepared for flight, taxiing, and taking off during exercise Red Flag…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 20, 2012
Drones

Photo: Is this the first Taliban-made drone, ever?

Update May 19, 2012 21.18 GMT The following pictures, courtesy of the Helmand Governor's Media Center, show what looks like a small drone that was discovered along with poppy, small…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 19, 2012
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Largest U.S. exercise in Middle East furtively taking place in Jordan. Involving 19 countries and 12,000 military

Almost ignored by some media outlets, a major strategic theater cooperation exercise including 19 countries and more than 12,000 participants is currently taking place in Jordan. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 19, 2012
Military Aviation

Infographic: Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Flypast

On Saturday May 19, Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her first 60 years as monarch. Here are the graphics that explain how the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, a flypast of over 80…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 19, 2012

Apocalypse now-like scene: 10 AH-64 Apache and 6 UH-60 Black Hawk choppers arrive at Joint Base Lewis-McChord

Something you don't see every day: ten AH-64 Apache and six UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters belonging to the 1st Battalion, 229th Aviation Regiment, based at Fort Hood, Texas, arrive at…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 18, 2012
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