The Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China were unforgiving “enemies” from the mid-1950s through the end of the Cold War. True, the two communist giants did — with great caution — collaborate to arm and train the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War. But politically and even ideologically they were enemies. Indeed, after […]
May 2008
(Gouge: The Dew Line) – Christian
Our boy Steve Trimble posted a piece this morning on a series of hover pit tests conducted by Lockheed Martin with it’s F-35B prototype — they’re calling it the BF-1. Hover pit tests completed two days ago moved the first short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) variant of the Lockheed Martin F-35 within days or weeks of its first […]
Interesting medical item running over at Military.com: (UPI) Doctors at Brook Army Medical Center are testing a regeneration powder that could help injured soldiers regrow fingers and other body parts lost in battle. The powder, nicknamed ‘Pixie Dust’ after the fairy dust that enabled children to fly in Disney’s Peter Pan, is made from tissue […]
This article first appeared in Aviation Week’s Ares Weblog. DTI reports this month that Northrop Grumman has won a classified Air Force contract to develop a secret bomber prototype. Naturally, nobody’s confirming this on the record, but we present strong evidence that such a project is under way. Ares has reported on this development before. […]
