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US Air Combat Command cancels all single-ship demo teams except one: “the F-22 is good for air shows. All other combat planes are good for war”

December 1, 2011, 12:18 pm
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As a consequence of the global financial crisis, the US Air Command Command has decided to scale back from the six demonstration teams (A-10 East & West, F-16 East & West, F-15E and F-22) to one single-ship demo team. For 2012, the Air Force’s primary force provider will sponsor only the F-22 demo team that [...]
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Computer viruses, mysterious bomb blasts, assassinations and PSYOPS: Israel’s stealth war on Iran already begun?

December 2, 2011, 9:00 am
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When writing about Iran’s nuclear weapons program, many analysts and journalists seem to forget that, although not of the type one might expect, the attack against Tehran nuke sites has already kicked off. Many still believe that a conventional military action against Iran is a future possibility forgetting that a long lasting hi-tech war in [...]
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Have you ever seen a Tornado-like spinning vortex on a Typhoon? Just phase transition thermodynamics

December 3, 2011, 1:05 pm
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I’m pretty sure many of this weblog’s readers have already seen this phenomenon generated at the air intake of an F-16. There is also a quite famous image of a C-17 engine, generating this tornado-like spinning vortex. However, the following picture is the first I’ve seen so far showing the vortex generated by an Italian [...]
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Iran seizes a U.S. Stealth Drone by taking over controls. Maybe… And what about that Predator virus?

December 4, 2011, 10:13 am
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According to the Iranian Fars news agency, on Dec. 4, Iran’s army downed a U.S. remotely controlled spyplane, along the country’s eastern border. Although no image of the wreckage was released so far, the American drone was described as an intruding RQ-170 Sentinel, first spotted in Afghanistan in 2007 and since then dubbed the “Beast [...]
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“I’d rather go to war in a Typhoon than in a F-18 (Super) Hornet” an Aussie exchange pilot says

December 5, 2011, 1:28 pm
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“I’d rather go to war in a Typhoon than in a F-18 Hornet”. This alleged Australian exchange pilot’s statement is one of the most interesting outcomes (and marketing slogans) of BERSAMA LIMA 11 an exercise marking the 40th Anniversary of the Five Powers Defence Agreement (FPDA) the only multilateral defence agreement in South East Asia [...]
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Stealthy drone crash in Iran update: “The recovery team couldn’t find it to blow it up” source says

December 7, 2011, 7:00 am
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Even if official sources have already confirmed that a (stealthy) US robot was lost, it is still unclear whether the RQ-170′s mission took it over Iran where it was downed/crash landed, or it violated  the Iranian airspace “accidentally”, because of technical failures. While the possibility that it was hacked and guided to Iran by Iranian [...]
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Breaking: Iran news agency releases first images of captured U.S. stealthy drone

December 8, 2011, 8:57 am
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Here they are. The first images released by an Iran news agency of what should be the U.S. RQ-170 drone crash landed in Iran on Sunday. Noteworthy, the drone wears a sort of desert color scheme much different from the dark grey one applied to the example photographed years ago at Kandahar airbase. According to [...]
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Exclusive: first high-resolution close-up pictures of the stealth drone in Iran. With signs of belly landing.

December 8, 2011, 2:19 pm
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After reading my previous article about the RQ-170 seized by Iran (Breaking: Iran news agency releases first images of captured U.S. stealthy drone), “Jeff” a visitor of my site suggested where to download the first hi-resolution pictures of the almost intact “Beast of Kandahar”. Images seems to confirm that the drone is real, of a desert-like [...]
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Captured U.S. stealth drone: let’s analyze the latest pictures. Real robot with few foam parts? Last hope: a trojan horse

December 9, 2011, 6:00 am
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As some U-2 spyplanes are landing in RAF Fairford on their way to some Middle East forward operating base (to undertake some reconnaissance missions over Iran, replacing the RQ-170 drone?), let’s have a closer look at the high-resolution pictures I published yesterday. First of all, let me tell you that I believe the one showed [...]
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“This is the school in Iran where the captured U.S. stealthy drone is hidden” source says. Maybe.

December 9, 2011, 1:07 pm
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According to “CalebS” a very well informed source of this website who has already provided valuable advice to study the high resolution pictures released yesterday by the Iranian Republic Guard, the one marked with the green arrow in the Google Maps screenshot below is (or at least could be) the location where the captured RQ-170 [...]
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Updated: Iranian newspaper ads makes fun of Lockheed Martin after U.S. stealth drone capture but video showing alleged Sentinel is a doctored LM Polecat promo

December 10, 2011, 3:31 pm
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The mysterious episode that led to the capture of the U.S. stealthy drone has been on the pages of the newspapers all around the world. On Dec. 10, the Iranian daily Hamshahri published an advertisement, put by an unidentified person, making fun of Lockheed Martin the U.S. company which has developed the “Beast of Kandahar”. [...]
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Typhoon’s super sci-fi helmet: a (supposedly) unnecessary extra feature on the F-22

December 11, 2011, 3:20 pm
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When I first saw this picture (taken by contributor Nicola Ruffino), I immediately thought that the Eurofighter Typhoon’s Helmet Mounted Symbology System (HMSS), is not only quite advanced, if compared to the the American JHMCS (Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System), but it is also so ugly and bumpy that let the backseater look like a [...]
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How many U.S. stealthy drones were actually lost in Iran? New theories about the “downed” RQ-170 surface

December 12, 2011, 10:41 am
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Iran will clone and maybe improve the U.S. RQ-170 drone captured on Dec. 4, during a surveillance mission inside the Iranian airspace. One of the few certain facts is that Iran will reverse-engineer the “Beast of Kandahar” and “launch production of their own drone.” That’s what Vice-Chairman of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy [...]
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U.S. MQ-9 crashes at Mahe, Seychelles. Not a good period for America’s robot war

December 13, 2011, 5:34 am
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News agencies are reporting that a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper crashed today at the Seychelles International Airport in Mahe. The cause of the crash is unknown and under investigation but the Reaper (also known as Predator B) was unarmed and no injuries were reported. Seychelles International Airport as seen with Google Maps The one in the [...]
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Satellite captures first Chinese aircraft carrier in the Yellow Sea

December 14, 2011, 1:07 pm
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Taken in the Yellow Sea on Dec. 8, 2011, this images from the DigitalGlobe Analysis Center depicts the Chinese aircraft carrier Varyag during it’s second sea trial in the Yellow Sea, approximately 100 kilometers south-southeast of the port of Dalian. Although testing activities with embarked planes began on Aug. 11, 2011, no plane appears on [...]
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“Three U.S. and four Israeli drones captured in Iran to be put on display soon”: Tehran Times says. “Downed” RQ-170 saga continues

December 15, 2011, 6:00 am
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Tehran Times reported that Iran is about to put on display “foreign spy drones in Iran’s possession” within an exhibition that will also showcase the “latest domestically manufacture electronic warfare equipment”, and national reporters and foreign ambassadors will be allowed to visit them. According to a source close to the Iranian newspaper, the foreign robots [...]
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Captured U.S. stealthy drone was hijacked exploiting GPS vulnerability. But hack description does not solve the mystery

December 15, 2011, 2:19 pm
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Eventually there is an explanation for the mysterious capture of the U.S. stealth drone by Iran. In an exclusive interview to the Christian Science Monitor, an  Iranian engineer (on condition of anonymity) working to reverse engineer the RQ-170 Sentinel hacked while it was flying over the northeastern Iranian city of Kashmar, some 225 kilometers (140 [...]
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Infographic: how the U.S. top secret stealth drone was captured by Iran

December 17, 2011, 12:04 pm
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Even if the story that the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 Sentinel drone captured by Iran was hijacked using a GPS spoofing attack is based on known facts and vulnerabilities highlighted in Air Force official documents, the “ambush”, as detailed by an Iranian Electronic Warfare engineer to the Christian Science Monitor, contains some controversial points. First of [...]
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Unknown hatch on captured U.S. stealth drone raises questions

December 18, 2011, 3:46 pm
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The amout of contribution I receive each time I publish a blog post on the stealth drone now part of Iran’s asset is amazing. For instance, yesterday, few minutes after publishing the Infographic that I used to explain how the drone was captured (a theory based on the known facts to date), I got an [...]
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Captured U.S. stealthy drone in Iran: the simplest solution solves the mystery

December 19, 2011, 2:11 pm
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The solution to the mystery of the capture of the U.S. (once) most secret drone could be much simpler than everyone has speculated so far. Today’s post on the topic will in fact provide some new theories emerged during the last days and a quite simple one that could explain various oddities of the story [...]
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