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Captured Stealth Drone

Stealthy drone crash in Iran update: "The recovery team couldn’t find it to blow it up" source says

Even if official sources have already confirmed that a (stealthy) US robot was lost, it is still unclear whether the RQ-170's mission took it over Iran where it was downed/crash…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 7, 2011
Military Aviation

‘I’d rather go to war in a Typhoon than in an F-18 (Super) Hornet’ Aussie exchange pilot says

"I'd rather go to war in a Typhoon than in a F-18 Hornet". This alleged Australian exchange pilot's statement is one of the most interesting outcomes (and marketing slogans) of…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 5, 2011
Captured Stealth Drone

Iran seizes a U.S. Stealth Drone by taking over controls. Maybe… And what about that Predator virus?

According to the Iranian Fars news agency, on Dec. 4, Iran's army downed a U.S. remotely controlled spyplane, along the country’s eastern border. Although no image of the wreckage was…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 4, 2011
Aviation

Have you ever seen a Tornado-like spinning vortex on a Typhoon? Just phase transition thermodynamics

I'm pretty sure many of this weblog's readers have already seen this phenomenon generated at the air intake of an F-16. There is also a quite famous image of a…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 3, 2011

Computer viruses, mysterious bomb blasts, assassinations and PSYOPS: Israel's stealth war on Iran already begun?

When writing about Iran's nuclear weapons program, many analysts and journalists seem to forget that, although not of the type one might expect, the attack against Tehran nuke sites has…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 2, 2011
Military Aviation

US Air Combat Command cancels all single-ship demo teams except one: "the F-22 is good for air shows. All other combat planes are good for war"

As a consequence of the global financial crisis, the US Air Command Command has decided to scale back from the six demonstration teams (A-10 East & West, F-16 East &…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 1, 2011
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