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Drones used as Proxies to get around ISP blocking and law enforcement: Predator’s to add server payload?

March 19, 2012, 3:12 pm
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Nearly in contemporary with the breaking news that a judge in New Zealand’s High Court has declared that the order used to seize Kim Dotcom’s assets is “null and void”, writing another page inside the endless MegaUpload saga, The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s largest BitTorrent sites, made another clamorous announcement. Tired of countering [...]
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Photo: MC-12W spyplane specialized in “find, fix, and finish” bad guys at its Red Flag debut

March 20, 2012, 7:00 am
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Red Flag 12-3, that took place at Nellis AFB, Nevada, from Feb. 27 to Mar. 16 saw the first ever use of the MC-12W ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance) plane in the exercise. Belonging to the 489th Reconnaissance Squadron of Beale AFB, California, (activated on Aug. 26, 2011) the MC-12s took part to the Red Flag [...]
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“Yes we can”: KC-767 refueling another KC-767

March 21, 2012, 7:00 am
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Some of the readers of this blog have noticed that the text “Yes we can”, the catchphrase used by Barack Obama in his concession speech on Jan. 8, 2008, is written on the nose of the last KC-767A tanker (the MM62228/14-03) delivered to the Italian Air Force. Indeed, more than any other one, the slogan [...]
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Video: AH-64 Apache helicopter crashes in Afghanistan

March 21, 2012, 9:07 am
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Update Mar. 21 18.20 GMT An AH-64 Apache helicopter crashes into the ground after performing a fiesler-like maneuver at low altitude over the troops in the mountains of Afghanistan. Maybe it’s not a “crazy” maneuver as someone judged it, but still dangerous. According to the information released along with the video, both the pilot and [...]
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Chemtrails, missiles, meteorites or falling stars? None of them. Simply some F-15s trailing a tanker during a Coronet East mission

March 21, 2012, 11:00 am
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Next time you see a scene like that depicted in the following images please don’t be scared. It’s neither chemtrails, nor missiles, nor meteorites or something like that. Most probably, it’s just a flight of combat planes trailing a tanker during a Coronet mission. Usually, Coronet East or West missions are ferry flights across the [...]
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More than 70 combat planes involved twice a day in world’s most realistic training exercise: welcome to the Red Flag 12-3

March 22, 2012, 9:00 am
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Taking place from Feb. 26 to Mar. 16, 2012, Red Flag 12-3 at Nellis AFB, Nevada, was attended by combat planes belonging to 12 different U.S. Squadrons and from the 75 Sqn of Royal Australian Air Force and 2 Sqn of the UK’s Royal Air Force. The Red Flag (RF) is a realistic training exercise, [...]
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First video of a Syrian helicopter gunship attacking rebels near Azaz, northwest of Aleppo

March 22, 2012, 3:43 pm
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The following video, brought to my attention by Bjørn Holst Jespersen shows a Syrian Mi-8/17 Hip attacking civilians/rebels near Azaz, some 30 km nortwest of Aleppo, Syria. After many videos uploaded to Youtube showing drones spying on the oppositors at Homs, and the footage of a Mig-23MS (probably a decoy) hit on the ground at [...]
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Israeli F-15I to be equipped with removable probe for buddy air-to-air refueling in case of attack on Iran?

March 23, 2012, 10:00 am
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Even though nobody knows if an attack on Iranian nuclear program will ever be launched by the Israeli Air Force almost all analysts concur that, whathever its size, the strike force will be made of a certain amount of F-15Is, the Israeli version of the U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle. Like all the other assets involved [...]
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Syrian regime escalates air war: new video of Mil Mi-8 firing rockets

March 23, 2012, 2:50 pm
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Yesterday, the first video of an Mi-8/Mi-17 using the side mounted machine gun to attack rebels near Azaz, was uploaded on Youtube. Today, another video has emerged. It shows (in the first 20 seconds) an Mi-8 Hip firing rockets towards the rebels on the ground, during a daytime attack on Aleppo on Mar. 23, 2012. [...]
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Beware of EXIF when you upload images to Flickr: USAF photo caption says image was taken in 2012. Flickr says May 2009. USAF lied.

March 24, 2012, 6:59 am
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The following picture was uploaded few days ago on the official USAF Flickr photostream. Here’s the caption (highlight mine): An Alaska Air National Guard HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter practices high-altitude landing operations March 14, 2012. The primary mission of the Pave Hawk is to conduct day or night personnel recovery operations into hostile environments to [...]
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Photo: Tailhook landing….in the desert. By a U.S. Air Force F-15

March 24, 2012, 2:10 pm
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Yesterday the following image (actually uploaded by the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing on Feb. 27) was published by the Air Force Magazine. Since on Mar. 19, 2012, a dust storm blew dust over the Persian Gulf , literally bringing the desert on the Carl Vinson, someone may have thought that all combat planes operating in [...]
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New videos show Syrian made-in-Iran drone taking off from Hamah airbase, Syria

March 25, 2012, 3:00 am
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Uploaded on Mar. 24, 2012, these videos show the made-in-Iran drone, known as “Pahpad”, taking off and operating from Hamah airbase in the city of Hama, in the west part of Syria, north of Damascus. Hamah seems to be one of the most active regime’s airbases: a Syrian Air Il-76 offloading some “goods” and several [...]
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Video: Iranian F-14 Tomcats on combat patrol. Unarmed.

March 26, 2012, 6:01 am
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Update Mar. 27 09.40 GMT This short but interesting video (which looks like the result of several footages mixed together) shows one of the most intruguing planes operating with the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force: the F-14 Tomcat. Along with scenes seemingly excerpted from Top Gun movie, the video (most probably coming from from [...]
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Photo: F-35 completes first night air-to-air refueling

March 26, 2012, 2:08 pm
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On Mar. 22, 2012, the F-35 completed the fist night air-to-air refueling during a test mission from Edwards AFB, California. Piloted by U.S. Air Force pilot Lt. Col. Peter Vitt, AF-4, an F-35A conventional takeoff and landing variant, met with an Air Force KC-135 tanker and successfully received fuel through the Stratotanker flying boom. Thanks [...]
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A330 MRTT (Multi-Role Tanker Transport) adds two new combat types: UAE Mirage 2000 and F-16 Block 60. And does it live on Flightradar24.com

March 27, 2012, 3:00 am
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Airbus Military has been very busy recently adding another two combat types able to be refueled from its A330 MRTT tanker aircraft, which has been ordered in three examples by the UAE Air Force. The company, which is part of the EADS conglomerate, has performed several test flights out of Al Dhafra airbase near Abu [...]
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Close call: this is it. What the footage of the AH-64D crash in Afghanistan says.

March 27, 2012, 2:51 pm
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The video of the AH-64D belonging to the 1-227 AvCav Regiment from FOB Sharana crashing on Feb. 6, 2012 in the Paktika province in Afghanistan went viral and almost anyone interested in military aviation has already seen it. But I’m not sure everybody has had the opportunity to notice how close to crashing onto a [...]
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[Updated] New image of F-35B with an AIM-120C5 missile in the weapon bay

March 28, 2012, 7:50 am
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Update Mar. 29, 2012 20.30 GMT Mar. 22, 2012 not only marked the first night air-to-air refueling: although not widely advertised, on the same day, the F-35B BF-4, during its 100th flight, piloted by RAF Sqdn. Ldr. Jim Schofield, flew with the open weapon bay door for an environmental testing with an (inert) AIM-120C5. After showing [...]
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Photo: A Civil Protection AW139 lands on a pier (in no-parking area)

March 28, 2012, 2:00 pm
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The following pictures were taken by Giovanni Maduli in Civitavecchia harbour, where an Agusta Westland AW139 belonging to the Protezione Civile (Italian Civil Protection) landed on Feb. 24, 2012. Although is a matter of perspective, it’s somehow funny that the Government helicopter seems to have been parked in a no-parking zone in the picture below. [...]
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NASA’s Ikhana MQ-9 drone flies with ADS-B equipment for the first time

March 29, 2012, 4:00 am
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On Mar. 15, for the first time ever at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center a Ikhana MQ-9 unmanned aircraft (modified Reaper) flew with an Automated Surveillance-Broadcast, or ADS-B transponder. It was the first time that an unmanned aircraft the size of the Ikhana with its 66 foot wingspan and 10,000 pounds take off weight has [...]
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Boeing P-8A next generation anti-submarine warfare and maritime patrol aircraft introduced. While test flights (that you can track on the Internet) continue

March 29, 2012, 7:30 am
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On Mar. 28, US Navy VP-30 at NAS Jacksonville took formally delivery of the first Boeing P-8A Poseidon. The next generation maritime multi-mission aircraft, whichwill eventually replace the P-3 Orion, will be used for aircrew training purposes, operating side-by-side with its predecessor. The Poseidon serialled 168428/428, delivered to the Navy on Mar. 4, is the [...]
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