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Photo: F-35A completes first aerial refueling with inert AIM-9X, JDAM and AMRAAM weapons.

On Saturday, Apr. 21, an F-35A Lightning II CTOL (conventional takeoff and landing aircraft) operating from Edwards AFB, achieved the first in-flight refueling mission from an Air Force's KC-10 while…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 24, 2012
Military Aviation

M-346 advanced combat trainer first weapon delivery tests

Taken at Decimomannu airbase last week, by Gian Luca Onnis, the following picture is the only available to date, of an M-346 advanced combat trainer flying with a BRD (Bombs…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 24, 2012
Information Security

Middle East Cyber War: Revenge Of The Drones

In the same hours in which I was publishing my post on Cyber Weapons, news agencies all around the world have begun to release (few) details about a new alleged…

Paolo Passeri Paolo Passeri
April 23, 2012
Aviation Safety

[Updated] Video: One of the lowest fly by ever by an F-16

Update Apr. 23, 2012 21.30 GMT Allegedly recorded in Afghanistan (that, as far as I remember, it's a landlocked country with no sea...), the following video, uploaded a couple of…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 23, 2012

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…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 23, 2012
Information Security

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,…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 22, 2012
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