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Military Aviation

B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers Conducted Hot-Pit Refueling at Wake Island

Hot-pit refueling is required to operate out of locations with limited support and infrastructures. On Sept. 14, two U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit bombers forward deployed to Joint Base Pearl…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 24, 2018
Airshows

NATO Days 2018 in Ostrava – How Centenaries Should be Done

All the most interesting "hardware" we have seen at Ostrava Air Show 2018. On Sep. 14 - Sep. 16 we attended the NATO Days event organized in the vicinity of…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
September 24, 2018
Information Security

White House Authorizes “Offensive Operations” As Part of New Cyber Security Strategy

The WH and the Pentagon have a plan to step up offensive cyber operations to deter foreign adversaries. The Trump administration has authorized the use of "offensive cyber operations" as…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 21, 2018
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U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Jets Involved In First Operational Deployment Near the Horn of Africa Flying With External Gun Pod

Photos show Marines F-35B aircraft carrying the external gun pod during exercise off the coast of Djibouti. For the last two weeks, U.S. Marine Corps F-35Bs assigned to the Marine…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 21, 2018
Military Aviation

In-Flight Emergency, New Kawasaki Motorcycle And More: All The “Top Gun: Maverick” News We Can Tell You, And Some We Can’t…

Among all the other things, Tom Cruise Has Emergency “Flap Caution” Landing During “Top Gun” Sequel Filming. Hollywood action film star Tom Cruise had to cut short the filming of…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
September 20, 2018
Military Aviation

New “Bulge” On Top Of U.S. Marine Corps and AFSOC’s V-22 Osprey Tilt-Rotor Aircraft Is A Radome That Houses A SATCOM Antenna

The new "bulge" is a radome for the Ku Ka antenna used to interconnect the CV-22s and MV-22s to a complex system providing secure voice and chat, classified network access…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 20, 2018
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