Last week’s barrage of small but significant F-35 stories continues as the sixth F-35A Joint Strike Fighter arrived at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida on Oct. 26. The jet is joining what will be the F-35 schoolhouse for thousands of JSF pilots and maintainers from the U.S. and international F-35 operators. Still, there’s no […]
From the monthly archives:
October 2011
Here’s the latest bid for what might be the world’s next stealth fighter design. Steve Trimble went to Seoul a couple of weeks ago and was all over the South’s KF-X stealth fighter contest. Well, here’s what’s likely Boeing’s bid on the effort to develop a South Korean stealth jet. The image comes from a Boeing […]
Well, this sure is interesting. Hipster-ey magazine/website, Vice, is doing some firsthand reporting on ‘the new Libya’ that seems to confirm Western concerns about hard core Islamists and members of al Qaeda hijacking the movement to build a new Libya. Vice reporter Sherif Elhelwa, penned this article showing what may be the al Qaeda flag flying […]
So, the U.S. has opened up a new drone base in Africa to aid in the hunt for terror suspects in places like Somalia. Apparently, the Air Force has built a miltimillion dollar facility to host MQ-9 Reaper drones at a tiny airstrip in Arba Minch, Ethiopia. The Washington Post is reporting that the facility […]
In case you haven’t see it, numerous news reports emerged this week claiming China may have messed with two U.S. government satellites by hacking their control station in Norway. Apparently, hackers gained access to the Landsat-7 (shown above) and Terra AM-1 satellites — both used to monitor climate change and map the Earth’s terrain — […]
