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…
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…
