Tornado reheat (and fuel dumping)
If you look for pictures of Italian Tornados taken few seconds after take off you'll find a few showing what appears to be a fuel leakage (similar to the one…
RSA Security breach explained: why US defense programs could be compromised
As almost everybody know by now, on Mar. 17, 2011, RSA (the Security Division of EMC Corporation and one of the most important IT Security vendors of the world) publicly…
China has already reverse-engineered the Stealth Black Hawk
Those who were worried that China could get its hands on some pieces of the ill-fated chopper that crashed in the Osama Bin Laden compound to reverse-engineer the Stealth helicopter…
Blue Angels' almost crash: the risk of Controlled Flight Into Terrain during formation aerobatics
On May 22, 2011, the US Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron was performing at Lynchburg Regional Air Show, Va, when the diamond formation went too low at the end of the…
What About A “Stealth Little Bird”?
We discuss the possible existence of a quieter "Stealth Little Bird", based on a true story about the silent OH-6 used during the Vietnam War. I've already written a lot…
Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 55 – 67)
Previous debriefings: Archive After more than two months of air campaign, Unified Protector seems to be making a slow progress across Libya, even if the air campaign is far from…