Well, this is certainly noteworthy. These images clearly show the lights on aboard China’s first aircraft carrier, the Shi Lang (ex Soviet Varyag). Remember a few months ago when we saw pictures of exhaust coming from the ship’s stack? How about when those weapons started appearing on board? Then we saw how scaffolding and other […]
From the monthly archives:
July 2011
It used to be that military tech was far ahead of tech that was routinely available on the civilian market. In many ways, those days have passed. However, that’s not quite the case with this mapping tech. For the last five years, special operators in Iraq and Afghanistan have been equipped with what at first […]
This interesting piece over at Asian Skies, Flight Global’s blog on all things flight-related in Asia, highlights the difficulities the Indian Air Force is having in keeping its fleet of Soviet-built fighters, transports and tankers flying due to their aging parts. It lists IAF RfPs (tenders) for everything from Migg-21 tires to An-32 lugs and […]
Check out this interesting video Steve Trimble of The DEW Line shot of Sikorsky’s presentation at the Oskhosh AirVenture on the future of it’s high-speed coaxial rotor helos. Pay particular attention to the part about construction on the prototype S-97 high-speed military bird being set to begin in a “month or so.” The first flight […]
Here you have it; video of the first ever catapult launch of an F-35C carrier variant Joint Strike Fighter. The JSF’s inaugural cat shot happened yesterday at the Navy’s air engineering center at Lakehurst ‚N.J. From appearances, the shot went off without a hitch. This is one more small step toward getting the jet to […]
