Ryan Aeronautical photo archive traces development of combat drones from the factory floor to deployment in southeast Asia
Founded by T. Claude Ryan in 1934, part of Teledyne from 1969 and purchased by Northrop Grumman in 1999, Ryan Aeronautical company has designed, developed and built some of the…
New Iranian drone capable of carrying out military and border patrol missions announced. Soon in the Syrian airspace?
On Mar. 17, a FARS News Agency article announced the production of the Shaparak (Butterfly), a new drone that can perform a wide variety of missions, including surveillance and border…
KC-767 boom operator’s stereoscopic vision goggles: introducing the Remote Vision System
As already explained in the previous post about the KC-767, unlike all the previous boom-equipped tankers, the NextGen Tanker uses an adveniristic remote boom operator's station located behind the cockpit.…
A brand new, combat-proven, next generation tanker: on board Italy’s Boeing KC-767A
Although based on a quite mature civil airliner, the brand new KC-767 is a revolutionary type of aerial refueler. Indeed, in the KC-46 variant, it will be used by the…
RAF's weapon of choice in Libya to be upgraded as export opportunities emerge
MBDA has announced it is to work on a successor to Brimstone the fire and forget anti-armour missile that had a starring role in the Air War over Libya. During…
How IRIAF F-14 Tomcats could be (effectively) used in combat against Israeli or U.S. planes or drones
A previous article about the theoretical Israeli strike on Iran with the rendering of an F-15I dropping bombs on Tehran got a lot of attention and sparked debate. Someone criticized…
