Well, it finally happened. Something some pilots operating in Iraq and Afghanistan have told me they worry about more than enemy surface-to-air fire; a midair collision with a UAV. A small RQ-7 Shadow UAV apparently collided with what looks like it might be an Air Force Special Operations Command MC-130 in the skies over Afghanistan. […]
From the monthly archives:
August 2011
Check out these crazy shots of one of China’s other aircraft carriers, the former Soviet ship Kiev. China actually stuck to its word with this ship and hasn’t reintroduced it to military service; instead it’s a luxury hotel. Enjoy. More at China Defense Blog.
So the Navy is going to replace its small fleet of EP-3 Aries signals intelligence aircraft with a “family” of $8 billion worth of drones by 2020. This is important because it marks the first time that one of the bigger intel birds is being replaced by UAVs — a concept that’s been talked about for […]
So yesterday Gadhafi’s forces fired a scud missile that missed its likely target, the city of Brega, by about 50 miles. How’d this happen? Not the miss, the Soviet-designed Scud’s have been around since the 50s and aren’t exactly prescision-guided weapons. No, how does Gadhafi still have stockpiles of them? I know they’re mounted on […]
Please watch this very moving video showing the beginning of the Air Force’s C-17 aeromedical evacuation process that involves ferrying wounded troops from Afghanistan to medical centers in Landstuhl, Germany, and the United States. It gives us a small glimpse of the sacrifices made on the battlefield and the efforts made to ensure our troops […]
