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Aircraft Carriers

Guess what’s worse than a flameout on take off? A flameout on catapult launch from an aircraft carrier

A quite embarrassing episode marked the end of MAKS 2011 air show on Aug. 21, at Ramenskoye air base, near Moscow. The Sukhoi PAK-FA/T-50, Russia's 5th generation fighter plane, was…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 22, 2011
Military Aviation

Stealth Helicopter's "MH-X" designation comes from a temporary filename – on this computer

Although it's hard to believe, I'm almost sure that the Stealth Black Hawk that crashed during the Osama Bin Laden raid has never been officially or unofficially named "MH-X". Still,…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 18, 2011
F-35

A new breed of fighter pilots for easy-to-fly high tech fighter jets

Earlier this summer, the U.S. Air Force took delivery of the first production of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II to the 33rd Fighter Wing at Eglin AFB, Fla. The F-35…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 17, 2011
Libyan Uprising

RAF Tornados firing 900K Euro missiles in 8-hour round-trip mission from the UK: is the war in Libya a marketing campaign?

Looks like the UK's Royal Air Force is particularly proud of announcing a Long-Range Libya mission involving six Tornados carrying state-of-the-art (and costly) Storm Shadow missiles. According to the article…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 15, 2011
China

"Pakistan let China examine Stealth Black Hawk helicopter": so what?

On Aug. 14, the Financial Times and the NYT, followed by other media all around the world, published the news that in the days after Operation Neptune's Spear Pakistan's intelligence…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 15, 2011
Aviation

CH-47 shot down by an RPG rocket: second episode in less than two weeks

On Aug. 6, an Army National Guard CH-47 with 38 on board, including 19 Navy Seals was downed by a rocket-propelled grenade in eastern Afghanistan. It was the worst incident…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 9, 2011
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