Air Force Academy cadets are designing what could end up being the service’s next stealthy jet. Yup, you read that correctly. Cadets are working on a twin engine, stealthy target drone meant to serve as live-fire targets for F-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter pilots. While the service is already replacing its ancient QF-4 Phantoms with 1980s-vintage […]
From the monthly archives:
October 2011
Here’s some interesting information about how China is becoming increasingly assertive in the Western Pacific. Japanese fighters scrambled to intercept Chinese intelligence planes near or in Japanese airspace a record-setting 83 times between April and September of this year. This is three times the number of interceptions made by the Japanse Air Self Defense Force against Chinese […]
Happy Friday evening everyone! Lets kick off the weekend with this cool photo of an MV-22 flying over San Francisco Bay during the Fleet Week festivities that happened last week. Enjoy! Photo via the San Francisco Chronicle.
Well, the President is sending about 100 “combat equipped” U.S. troops to Uganda to help local government forces hunt down and ‘remove’ Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army. The LRA is a rebel group that has terrorized the African countryside for years, murdering, raping and kidnapping thousands of civilians. Like countless other […]
The video below showing a PLAAF JH-7 fighter bomber crashing has been making the Internet rounds today. The jet apparently went down during an airshow near the town of Xi’an, and as you can see, only one of the pilots made ejected from the plane before it hit the ground. The JH-7 is a Mach. […]
