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Aircraft Carriers

Here’s Boeing Submission To The U.S. Navy MQ-25 Stingray Unmanned Carrier Aviation Air System Competition

Boeing's MQ-25 unmanned aircraft system has been unveiled. After teasing its shape with a mysterious tweet that included a photograph of an aircraft under protective cover on Dec. 14, as…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 19, 2017
Helicopters

Bell V-280 Valor Next-Generation Tilt-Rotor Aircraft Prototype Has Just Made Its First Flight

The Bell V-280 Valor prototype has successfully achieved first flight at the Bell Helicopter assembly facility in Amarillo, TX. On Dec. 18, the first prototype of the V-280 Valor, registration…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 18, 2017
Aircraft Carriers

U.S. Department Of Defense Video Shows Unknown Object Intercepted By U.S. Navy Super Hornet And We Have No Idea What It Was.

This video shows the weird object as seen from a U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet's ATFLIR (Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared) pod. What is it? Any idea? On Dec. 16,…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 17, 2017
Military Aviation

This Image Shows The Complexity Of The XB-70 Valkyrie mid-1960s Research Aircraft Cockpit Compared To That Of An Upgraded B-1 Bomber

The composite photo gives a pretty good idea of how the cockpit of supersonic heavy bombers has evolved in about 50 years. With a planned cruise speed of Mach 3…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 15, 2017
Military Aviation

The Reason U.S. F-22 Stealth Jets and Russian Su-35S Flankers Are Shadow Boxing Over Syria May Have Nothing to Do with Syria

Are U.S. And Russia in Last-Minute Intelligence Grab Over Syria? International news media has been crackling with reports of intercept incidents between U.S. and Russian combat aircraft along the Middle…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
December 15, 2017
Afghanistan

Close Air Support Debate: We Go Inside an AC-130 to See if the Gunship is Still Relevant

The AC-130 Spectre Gunship Still Plays a Critical Role in America’s Close Air Support Capability. It is large, slow and vulnerable to air defense systems including increasingly effective man-portable SAMs.…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
December 13, 2017
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