Ok, go to our sister site DoDBuzz right now and look at these incredible pictures of Japan before and after the earthquake and tsunami hit. Use the slider tool to get an instant comparison of a pre-and post-disaster landscape. As Buzz editor Colin Clark puts it, these satellite images are no-doubt similar to higher quality ones that […]
From the monthly archives:
March 2011
Check out this video of China’s Pterodactyl UAV flying and firing weapons. Is it me, or does this thing look very, very similar to the MQ-9 Reaper? Aplologies for the poor quality. Here’s more on the drone. Well done to Trimble for spotting this.
So, it’s looking more and more likely that the Air Force will hold a competition to replace its fleet of about 90 UH-1N Huey choppers. For a while there the Air Force was hell-bent on buying a chopper with zero competition. But Air Force Secretary Michael Donley seems to have finally killed that idea. From […]
A manufacturing flaw led to the early termination of last May’s test flight of the Air Force’s X-51A Waverider hypersonic vehicle, according to Air Force officials. The historic flight out of the Naval Air Station Point Mugu in California was terminated by safety officials about half way through its mission when the Air Force lost […]
The technology being tested out in the Air Force’s X-51A Waverider hypersonic missile platform may soon shift from far-out tech to becoming an actual weapon, service officials revealed this week. “There are a number of initiatives and plans in the works,” to shift “the technologies that are in the X-51A to start transitioning those technologies […]
