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…
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…
What do a multi-million fifth generation fighter jet and an SF-260 light training aircraft have in common?
Here's the F-22, a fifth generation fighter jet: And here's the SF-260EA of the Italian Air Force, a light aircraft used for initial pilot training: What do they have in…
Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 105 – 137)
Previous debriefings: Archive Latest update: on Aug. 3, at 10.40LT, a missile exploded 2 km from the Italian frigate Bersagliere, that was patrolling the sea some 15 miles off Libya.…
