New details are emerging with the Air Force’s plan to replace its fleet of heavily used HH-60G Pave Hawk Combat Search and Rescue helicopters; namely, the service now hopes to award a contract in late fiscal year 2013 with the aircraft being ready to fly missions by FY-17 or early FY-18, according to service briefing […]
From the monthly archives:
May 2011
Steve Trimble over at his blog The DEW Line is killing it with the cool videos. First up, check out this close up video of China’s J-20 stealth figther appearing out of the haze as it roars in for a landing at its plant in Chengdu china. Yes, the plane’s been in public for months […]
Well, it’s back. Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan tweeted yesterday that the tail and other wreckage of the secret helicopter that crashed during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden has returned to the United States after almost a month in Pakistani hands. That’s plenty of time for the ISI and Pakistani military to give […]
So there’s been much fretting lately (well for years, actually) about the prospect of increased cost growth and schedule delays for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program despite the definite up-tick in its flight testing. The plane’s initial operating capability dates which basically dictate when the jet will be able to perform basic combat missions have been […]
Well, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency has come out and said that it strongly thinks that Syrian target blown up by Israeli fighter jets in 2007 was a secret nuclear plant. While the IAEA hasn’t yet presented hard proof that the site was a nuke facility, it did find prelimary evidence of […]
