It’s official, the Air Force has selected Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucano as the Light Air Support (LAS) aircraft, better known as a counterinsurgency (COIN) plane. The air service is buying 20 Super Ts from Embraer and its U.S. partner, Sierra Nevada Corporation, for $355 million, according to an announcement that Embraer released last night. Remember, […]
From the monthly archives:
December 2011
That new crop of foreign stealth fighters that’s emerging; don’t worry, the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet can handle ‘em. That’s the interesting pitch that Boeing’s man in Tokyo for fighters gave me earlier this month while discussing Japan’s F-X fighter contest. I suspect that’s Boeing’s main pitch for many of it’s potential fighter customers Basically, the Super Hornet’s active electronically […]
And she’s back. That’s China’s aircraft carrier, the ex-Soviet Varyag, returning to port from her latest sea trial, where she carried out “scientific testing,” as China’s state-run news agency, Xinhua, put it.. Since making her initial baby-steps into the ocean last August the ex-Varyag has spent about three weeks at sea, giving the world some great views […]
In case you haven’t noticed, China just put its very own GPS network into service. Dubbed the Beidou system, it recently went active, providing positioning, navigation and timing services to Asian users. Its not nearly as advanced or robust as the United States’ GPS II system, yet. China is investing heavily in space tech and […]
We here at DT and the press in general have focused a lot on China’s J-20 stealth figther and its new aircraft carrier. They’re the sexy toys of China’s military modernization and they will be key to China projecting military might someday, so it’s natural that they receive a good deal of press. However, we shouldn’t forget […]
