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Video: AH-64 Apache helicopter crashes in Afghanistan

Update Mar. 21 18.20 GMT An AH-64 Apache helicopter crashes into the ground after performing a fiesler-like maneuver at low altitude over the troops in the mountains of Afghanistan. Maybe…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 21, 2012
Italian Air Force

"Yes we can": KC-767 refueling another KC-767

Some of the readers of this blog have noticed that the text "Yes we can", the catchphrase used by Barack Obama in his concession speech on Jan. 8, 2008, is…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 21, 2012
Military Aviation

Photo: MC-12W spyplane specialized in "find, fix, and finish" bad guys at its Red Flag debut

Red Flag 12-3, that took place at Nellis AFB, Nevada, from Feb. 27 to Mar. 16 saw the first ever use of the MC-12W ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance) plane in…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 20, 2012
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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
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