If Libyan rebels continue to hold on the center of the besieged city of Misurata, one of the major questions surrounding the battle will be, can NATO jets more easily pummel Gadhafi’s forces now that they have withdrawn to the city’s outskirts where they may be preparing to bombard the city with heavy weapons. last […]
From the monthly archives:
April 2011
Here’s some interesting food for thought based on Chinese-focused blogosphere chatter about the existence of the J-18 vertical/short take-off and landing fighter that’s rumored to have entered flight testing: First came rumors that China is working on an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter style V/STOL jet. Next, China-oriented blogs stated that a V/STOL airplane flew. However, […]
So, the Air Force has listened to (or cowed to, depending on your perspective) the defense industry and has decided to hold a “full and open competition” to replace its aging fleet of about 90 UH-1N Hueys and its 112 HH-60 Pave Hawk combat search and rescue birds, sister site DoDBuzz is reporting. What’s significant about this […]
By Kevin Coleman — Defense Tech Cyberwarfare Correspondent Are we in a cyber arms race? That question has been around and talked about for some time now, but over the past months the subject of a cyber arms has been raised over and over again in meetings that included military and civilian subject matter experts. […]
Here you have it, close up pictures of what’s apparently China’s J-15 carrier-borne fighter sporting PLAN colors emerged over the weekend, emerged in China’s state-owned Global Post newspaper over the weekend. It’s essentially a Chinese version of Russia’s Su-33 naval fighter that is designed to fly off the same type of carrier China will soon […]
