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October 14, 2019 Up Close And Personal With The F-35s Securing The NATO Skies Over Iceland F-35
October 10, 2019 Watch This Gusty Gunship Turn a Military Parade into a Real-Life Benny Hill Skit Helicopters
January 19, 2020 The Israeli Air Force Has Inaugurated Its Second F-35I Adir Squadron F-35
January 16, 2020 A (Very Windy!) Interview with Blue Angels Boss About Super Hornet Transition Military Aviation
January 15, 2020 Egyptian Air Force Stages “Elephant Walk” With 16 MiG-29M/M2 Fulcrum Jets Military Aviation
January 14, 2020 Leonardo Awarded Contract For U.S. Navy’s New TH-73A Training Helicopter Helicopters
January 14, 2020 Israeli Air Force’s F-16s Damaged By Flooding at Hatzor Airbase Aviation Safety / Air Crashes

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

December 4, 2011 David Cenciotti 9

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 released so far, the American […]

Infected US drones: rather embarrassing but (probably) no big deal

October 8, 2011 David Cenciotti 0

Even though the news that a computer virus has infected US Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ keystroke during their missions over Afghanistan, Libya and other warzones (Yemen?), spread like fire thanks to the exclusive article […]