So, the F-35 Join Strike Fighter got a major shot in the arm last night when Japan chose the JSF to its next fighter jet. Tokyo decided to buy four F-35A conventional model JSFs next year to kick start its effort to replace two squadrons of ancient F-4 Phantoms. Last night’s news validates reports that […]
From the monthly archives:
December 2011
Happy Monday, everyone. Below you’ll find an interesting video to give you material to show your crazy uncle during the holidays. Despite the title, this video doesn’t show a UAV going cross country on a flatbed truck. It shows what looks like one of Northrop Grumman’s X-47B drones being shipped to Naval Air Station Patuxent […]
So, the Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment is bringing what was supposed to be the military’s version of a smartphone to Afghanistan. Yup, the software-based JTRS AN/PRC-154 Rifleman Radio and the Android-based GD300 smartphone-style device are about to make their combat debut, according to our own Matt Cox. Here’s a teaser from his story that we’ll running […]
So the other day, reports surfaced claiming that Japan was going to choose Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter this week to replace its oldest F-4 Phantoms and F-15 Eagles. Needless to say, one of the U.S.’ biggest allies in the Pacific was signing on to be the latest JSF operator, would be a major coup for the […]
In case you haven’t read it yet, it looks like the Air Force is blaming last December F-22 Raptor crash in Alaska on pilot error — with an oxygen generating system-related twist. The service’s final accident report states that Capt. Jeffery Haney accidentally pointed his Raptor toward the ground while reaching for a switch to activate his […]
