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US Air Combat Command cancels all single-ship demo teams except one: “the...

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...

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Computer viruses, mysterious bomb blasts, assassinations and PSYOPS: Israel’s...

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...

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Have you ever seen a Tornado-like spinning vortex on a Typhoon? Just phase...

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...

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Iran seizes a U.S. Stealth Drone by taking over controls. Maybe… And what...

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,...

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“I’d rather go to war in a Typhoon than in a F-18 (Super) Hornet” an Aussie...

“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...

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Stealthy drone crash in Iran update: “The recovery team couldn’t find it to...

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...

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Breaking: Iran news agency releases first images of captured U.S. stealthy drone

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...

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Exclusive: first high-resolution close-up pictures of the stealth drone in...

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...

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Captured U.S. stealth drone: let’s analyze the latest pictures. Real robot...

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...

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“This is the school in Iran where the captured U.S. stealthy drone is hidden”...

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...

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Updated: Iranian newspaper ads makes fun of Lockheed Martin after U.S....

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...

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Typhoon’s super sci-fi helmet: a (supposedly) unnecessary extra feature on...

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...

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How many U.S. stealthy drones were actually lost in Iran? New theories about...

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...

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U.S. MQ-9 crashes at Mahe, Seychelles. Not a good period for America’s robot war

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...

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Satellite captures first Chinese aircraft carrier in the Yellow Sea

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...

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“Three U.S. and four Israeli drones captured in Iran to be put on display...

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...

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Captured U.S. stealthy drone was hijacked exploiting GPS vulnerability. But...

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...

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Infographic: how the U.S. top secret stealth drone was captured by Iran

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...

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Unknown hatch on captured U.S. stealth drone raises questions

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...

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Captured U.S. stealthy drone in Iran: the simplest solution solves the mystery

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...

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