RT @BoeingAirplanes: Today we celebrate the end of production on the 747, the world's first jumbo jet -- a plane that enabled more people t… 5 hours ago
RT @flightradar24: On this week’s AvTalk we unroll Airbus’ new holey foil for the A350, which it hopes will be the holy grail for its peeli… 19 hours ago
The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a heavy logistics military transport aircraft designed to provide world-wide massive strategic airlift. The CONUS based fleet can provide delivery of palletized, oversized and outsized cargo, as well as passengers or combat-ready troops, anywhere in the world on short notice. The aircraft can takeoff and land in relatively short di […]
The first Eurofighter Typhoon with on board the radar PIRATE- IRST designed and produced by Galileo Avionica, a Finmeccanica Company, was delivered to the Italian Aeronautica Militare. The aircraft is part of the Tanche 1 batch 5 of the international programme Eurofighter and is operational at the Grosseto base, in Tuscany. The PIRATE performs the […] The po […]
Europe’s largest and most secretive UCAV program In February 2006, unofficial photo’s emerged of the EADS Barracuda – sometimes referred to as Barrakuda – unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator. The picture above shows German and Spanish flags on the tail, indicating a joint venture between the two countries’ militaries on the project. According to […]
The Washington Post reports on a $100 million budget request for development of the FACLON hypersonic cruise vehicle (HCV) as part of the $459 billion defense appropriations bill. Goal of the “prompt global strike” program, as the FALCON program is also known, is to provide the ability to deliver a conventional, precision-guided warhead anywhere in […] The p […]
The operational utility of bombers in the new, riskier battlefield of faster, smarter, and longer-ranged defences is one of the top reasons the Air Force is looking at the F-22 and a larger-winged, longer-ranged variant, the FB-22, as midterm strike possibilities, according to Secretary of the Air Force James G. Roche. “The F-22 … has […] The post FB-22 Figh […]