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August 2011

Even with rebels essentially in control of the Libyan capitol of Tripoli, Moammar Gadhafi’s forces have lobbed three scud missiles at the city of Misurata in a useless, last ditch effort to put down the rebellion. Just like the scud launched by Gadhafi’s forces earlier this month, the three missiles fired on Aug. 22 caused […]

Check out this great photo that Jack Murphy of our sister site, Kit Up!, posted of the interior of one of Gadhafi’s munitions bunkers now in rebel hands. As you can see, Murphy’s ID’d a bunch of the contents of the weapons crates shown.

Here’s your Monday morning dose of  fighter porn; it’s China’s J-20 stealth fighter pulling streamers as it appears to do a roll. Last week, we showed you a clip of it doing a half-roll. It looks like the test pilots have since become comfortable pushing the big jet all the way over as they expand […]

The Sukhoi T-50 PAK FA’s aborted takeoff yesterday was caused by a flameout in the right-hand (starboard) engine built by Russian jet engine-maker Saturn. It turns out the jet that suffered the flameout was, T-50–2 (Side 52), the second of two PAK FA test jets built so far. T-50–2 was built to test out the […]

By Kevin Coleman — Defense Tech Cyberwarfare Correspondent The United States is currently the largest producer of intellectual property (IP) in the world. In fact the United States Patent and Trademark office recently issued the 8,000,000 patent. Anyone who has been associated with the application and patenting process knows how difficult and demanding this effort […]