Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 138 – 161)
Tom Cooper has contributed to this report. Previous debriefings: Archive Unlike all the reports I've written since April, this one comes in days of renewed interest about the current situation…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
"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…
