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Drones

U.S. drones and spyplanes involved in information gathering missions over Syria. As in Libya one year ago. More or less…

More or less one year ago, we were observing an increasing activity of U.S., British, French and Italian military spy planes perfoming information gathering missions along the northern border of…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
February 21, 2012
Information Security

Exclusive Infographic: all Cyber Attacks on Military Aviation and Aerospace Industry

2011 has been an annus horribilis for information security, and aviation has not been an exception to this rule: not only in 2011 the corporate networks of several aviation and…

Paolo Passeri Paolo Passeri
February 21, 2012
Military Aviation

Here's the M-346 in Israeli Air Force colors

As reported in a previous post, Israel has selected the Alenia Aermacchi M-346 as the advaced trainer for combat pilots designated for front line fighter jets. Since the Italian plane…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
February 21, 2012
Military Aviation

Photo: in a world of overall grey planes, a (rare) Tornado IDS-HARM in camouflage color scheme

Nowadays almost all the NATO combat planes (special colors aside) wears overall grey low visibility color schemes. Therefore, old fashioned camouflage color schemes are extremely rare. One of the last…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
February 20, 2012
F-35

Photo: Lockheed Martin F-35's first mission with external weapons

On Feb. 16, 2012, an F-35A aircraft from Edwards AFB, California, flew for the first time with external weapons. Although no weapons were delivered during the sortie, the payload of…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
February 20, 2012
Military Aviation

U.S. special operations plane crashes in Djibouti killing four crew members

On Feb. 18, 2012, a U.S. spy plane crashed six miles from Djibouti International Airport during "a routine flight." As a consequence, all four U.S. military personnel on board, belonging…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
February 20, 2012
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