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HUGE PLUG: “RISE OF THE DRONES” TO AIR WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23rd ON NOVA!
I spent dozens of hours consulting with the producers of this documentary, literally taking them through almost every aspect of drone warfare and unmanned combat aircraft, including their evolution, ways of operation, specific differences in capabilities amongst the types in … Read the rest of this entry
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AS HIGHLIGHTED ON THIS SITE AS A THREAT FOR YEARS: CHINA’S CONVERTED SURPLUS FIGHTER DRONE FORCE EYEBALLED FROM SPACE
In many of my posts on China, their emerging hardware and their military strategy in the region as a whole, I have discussed some “unconventional” tactics that the Chinese military has developed … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in China Rising, News, Opinon, Photo
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DoE Nuclear Fallout Sniffing Bell 412 Goes To Work In Washington DC
This baby came to Portland for a couple weeks about five years ago during a massive FEMA exercise that featured a scenario of a dirty bomb going on in the Willamette Valley. It’s pretty awesome to watch these slick looking … Read the rest of this entry
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER FOR LEASE: SO DEPRESSING…
Yeah it is going to be a bustling hive of private spaceflight activity, I won’t hold my breath…
Filed in News, Opinon, Space, Space Shuttle Retirement, video
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ROGOWAY’S REVIEWS: Forces Spéciales (Special Forces)
Who knew that of all countries France had their own flag waving recruitment commercial on steroids meets action adventure flick just like how the US has Act Of Valor? In fact it looks like the French even beat the US … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in Opinon, Rogoway's Reviews
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CHINA BUYS TU-22 BACKFIRES?: NOT JUST THE PLANES, THE ENTIRE PRODUCTION LINE…
Our good friend David Cenciotti over at the Aviationist.com reports that China has purchased at the least a significant batch of Cold War era Tu-22 backfires from Russia, although it appears that this could actually be a deal for the … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in China Rising, News, Opinon, The F-35 Saga
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IDENTIFY THIS SUB!: SMALL MYSTERY SUBMARINE SPOTTED AT NAVAL BASE KITSAP IN BREMERTON, WA
UPDATE! CLICK AFTER READING THE POST BELOW: http://aviationintel.com/2013/01/04/mystery-solved-the-unidentified-pint-sized-submarine-is/ A good aviation photographer and military aficionado friend of mine sent this over to me wondering what the heck this relatively small, but still … Read the rest of this entry
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GOODBYE BEAR…
I was a kid during Desert Storm. I would run home from school to watch his briefings, he was sort-of the quintessential “comic book” military commander, imposing, snappy yet likeable. General “Stormin Norman” Schwarzkopf, whose real nickname was “Bear,” was … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in News, Opinon
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YOUR BROKEN PENTAGON: USAF WILL RE-SOLICIT PROPOSALS FOR THE LAS CONTRACT
Read this first: http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_12_21_2012_p0-531685.xml&p=1 This is so ridiculous. Forest for the trees people, if we do not train and equip Afghans to provide for their own precision close air support and surveillance we will be spending billions in that country … Read the rest of this entry
NEED AN INTERIM UAV SOLUTION FOR AMERICAN AIRCRAFT CARRIERS? TAKE A GOOD HARD LOOK AT THE MOTHBALLED S-3 VIKING…
There has been some buzz in the defense community that the US Navy should field an “interim” unmanned aircraft to deploy off of its flattops between the time that the X-47B … Read the rest of this entry
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NEW FOOTAGE AND INFO EMERGES REGARDING STEALTH BLACK HAWK HELICOPTERS USED IN ZERO DARK THIRTY
The video posted above is a scene from the soon to be released Bin Laden manhunt super-hit film “Zero Dark Thirty” showing the launch of the pair of low observable modified Black Hawk helicopters at the beginning of their trip … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in News, Opinon, Stealth Blackhawk & Bin Laden Raid, video
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HOW TO END SCHOOL SHOOTINGS IMMEDIATELY, NOT OVER DECADES
This site is about security, technology, and solutions to our problems related to these issues. Last week was a horrible one for the US, I need to address this as right now nobody is actually talking about ways to stop … Read the rest of this entry
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