Last week, China launched another surveillance satellite, the Yaogan Weixing-10, the third of its kind and the sixth Chinese satellite launch this year. Chinese media says the satellite is intended for scientific experiments and crop surveys. According to this story, the three Yaogan Weixing-10 synthetic aperture radar and high resolution optical equipped satellites are flying […]
From the monthly archives:
August 2010
Last week, Navy Undersecretary Bob Work laid out the sea services’ vision for the Marine Corps post-Afghanistan at CSIS, in Washington, D.C. (audio here). Work echoed the theme outgoing Commandant James Conway, and others, have been repeatedly hammering away for a good year or so: that the Marines must return to their maritime roots to […]
The well known, and controversial, Carlo Kopp from the Air Power Australia outfit has a new piece in The Diplomat looking at China’s first indigenous KJ-2000 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, which he says marks an important milestone in the PLA Air Force’s long march to a high-tech force. The deployment of the […]
Yesterday, Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah claimed Israel was behind the 2005 bombing that killed Lebanese prime minister, Rafiq Al Hariri. Part of the evidence for that claim, produced by Nasrallah for reporters, were still photos and video feed taken in 1997 from Israeli aerial drones hovering above Hariri’s home. While that might not be sufficient […]
More leaks from Britain’s ongoing defense review, part of a dramatic shrinking of the public sector by the new Conservative-led coalition government. The Daily Telegraph got hold of “detailed proposals” that include slashing the RAF’s fighter fleet to fewer than 200 planes, cutting two nuclear submarines, three amphibious ships and an armored brigade. Total military […]
