So, Islamabad is making good on its demand that United States forces leave Shamsi air base, one of several facilities used by CIA drones inside Pakistan. American cargo planes have apparently arrived to pick up U.S. personnel at the base less than a week after the Pakistani government ordered them out in response to the killing of […]
From the monthly archives:
December 2011
So there’s still no word on whether Iran really downed and captured one of America’s premiere UAVs, the stealthy RQ-170 Sentinel. UPDATE: Fox News is citing an unnamed Pentagon source as confirming that Iran does indeed have an RQ-170. Iran appears to be in possession of one of America’s most sophisticated weapons, a super-secret spy […]
Check out this great picture taken from an airliner that shows the Varyag at sea this week. The best part of this picture is the detail of its freshly painted deck that appears ready for flight ops. Oh, and look at that fueling truck on the forward aircraft elevator, too. Via China Defense Blog.
So, the interwebs are abuzz this morning with news that the man in charge of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program wants to slow down production — and therefore deliveries of the jet. The slowdown is needed to install fixes to numerous structural cracks and “hot spots” that have been found in the plane over […]
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter-maker Lockheed Martin isn’t the only defense contractor going on a PR offensive to hedge against budget cuts to a controversial aircraft. Boeing (and the Marines) just put out a press release touting record amounts of international interest the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor garnered at the Dubai air show. Boeing has discussed […]
