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Military Aviation

British Prime Minister to use new RAF tankers for future overseas visits after embarrassing trade trip with Boeing plane

The Royal Family and senior UK politicians may consider using one of the RAF’s "Voyager" Airbus A330 tanker aircraft for future foreign trips after a rather embarrassing trade trip to…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
April 25, 2012
Helicopters

The most interesting, dramatic (recent) helicopter pictures from all around the world

In the image below, a pair of Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters (in an interesting configuration including snow pads) prepare to land at the Alaska Army National…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 25, 2012

Quadrotor killer drone with machine gun and self-destruct module: a deadly weapon of the future

First of all let's have a look at the following increble video. It shows a mini quadrotor drone carrying a machine gun in order to bring remote-controlled death from above.…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 24, 2012
F-35

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
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