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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…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 19, 2012
Military Aviation

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.…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 18, 2012
Italian Air Force

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…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 18, 2012
Military Aviation

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…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
March 17, 2012
Iran

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…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 16, 2012
Drones

Boeing's Phantom Eye revolutionary drone eyes its first flight

Boeing has recently announced that it has performed some medium speed taxi runs for its latest High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) surveillance drone the Phantom Eye at Edwards AFB on…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
March 15, 2012
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