If you can forgive the cheesy soundtrack, watch this additional footage of the history-making first flight of the Navy’s X-47B unmanned combat air vehicle demonstrator. Enjoy.
From the monthly archives:
February 2011
Look at the this! The long troubled USS San Antonio may be at the cusp of something unprecedented in its history; working properly! According to the Virginian-Pilot newspaper the ship has turned a corner and for the first time ever, maintenance crews are finding no major flaws with the vessel: Adm. John C. Harvey Jr., who […]
By Kevin Coleman — Defense Tech Cyberwarfare Correspondent The use of social networking sites by groups opposing the rule of current government in Iran, Egypt and other countries have caught the attention of intelligence agencies around the world. The capabilities of social networking sites have three core attributes – a weapon, a threat and a […]
Check out China Defense Blog’s interesting analysis of the PLAN’s evacuation of thousands of Chinese nationals from Libya over the last week. They take a look at the argument that the deployment of a 054A class Frigate to assist in the evacuation was China’s way of saying don’t mess with our citizens because we can now project power […]
A new chapter in the history of U.S. Air Force fighters began yesterday when the service’s fist production model F-35 Joint Strike Fighter took to the skies at Lockheed’s Fort Worth, TX., facility for the very first time. Yes, the program’s had its troubles and the Marines’ B-model is nowhere near ready for production but this marks […]
