Here’s something we haven’t seen before. China’s first aircraft carrier, the ex-Soviet Varyag, steaming under its own power in the open seas. This satellite photo was taken by the group Digital Globe during the ship’s nearly two week-long cruise that ended last weekend. This is a pretty significant development. until now, we’ve only seen her […]
From the monthly archives:
December 2011
This is very interesting, just after losing an RQ-170 Sentinel drone to Iran the AIr Force is sending a single, stealthy-ish Predator-C Avenger drone to Afghansistan. The Predator C is made by General Atomics and appeared to be in the running for the Air Force’s MQ-X next-generation combat drone project. That effort was put on […]
Here’s some very good news for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Japan is signalling that it may become the next country to sign up to buy the plane. The island nation had been considering replacing its ancient fleet of F-4 Phantoms and newer F-15s with the Eurofighter Typhoon, F/A-18E/F Super Hornets and finally the F-35. […]
Happy Monday, let’s start things off with this photo of China’s aircraft carrier returning from its second cruise in PLAN ( I mean China Navy) colors. This picture surfaced at China Defense Blog on Saturday and shows ex-Varyag being towed back to harbor at Dalian. Remember, she sailed for her second sea trial on Nov. […]
The Pentagon just gave Lockheed Martin a $4 billion contract for 30 early production model F-35 Joint Strike Fighters. The batch of planes, officially known as Low Rate Initial Production lot-5 (LRIP-5), was priginally supposed to include 35 jets. However, the Pentagon cut the deal to 30 aircraft due to cost increases and delays in […]
