Sister site Kit Up! appears to have spotted what might be these super high-tech AN/PVS-21 Low Profile Night Vision Goggles in a photo showing New Zealand Special Air Service commandos leaving the scene of yesterday’s hotel attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. While Kit Up! originalyl postulates that the NVGs look to be the panoramic QUADEYE night […]
From the monthly archives:
June 2011
Speaking of drones, this is pretty interesting. Apparently, Pakistan has told the U.S. to abandon a secret desert base inside Pakistan that CIA drones fly out of. This is no doubt more fallout of the May 1 raid that killed Osama bin Laden and we’ve been waiting for something like this to happen for a while. From […]
In case you didn’t see it, the U.S. has unleashed the drones on yet another country, Somalia. Two leaders of the al Shabab terrorist group were wounded in a drone strike there last week, according to the Washington Post. They plane, or planes, involved apparently belonged to U.S. Special Operations Command. As the Post notes, this […]
So it looks like NATO has begun arming the Libyan rebels, or at least the French have. Makes me wonder if this tricked out FN2000 (shown above) was really seized from a Gadhafi loyalist, or was it provided by the French? From AFP: The French military confirmed June 29 that it had air-dropped “light weapons” earlier this […]
Here’s one more video tour of an aircraft on display at last week’s Paris Air Show. It’s the RAF’s newest jet trainer, the BAE Hawk T2. In addition to the new Rolls-Royce Adour 951 engine and other upgrades listed in the video, the jet has recofigurable digital cockpit displays, meaning they can be programmed to […]
