Amak news agency reporting from Syria posted images online purporting to show an American Predator drone orbiting the skies of Kobane, a Syrian Kurdish town on the border with Turkey. Kobane, also known as Ayn Al Arab, has been under siege by Islamic State militants since Sept. 15. Kurdish fighters from the People’s Protection Units—a.k.a. […]
Satellite imagery acquired by Airbus and analyzed by Jane’s shows an IS training and logistics site struck by multiple PGMs located near Syria’s Abu Kamal. On 23SEPT14, the USAF launched F/A-18s from the aircraft carrier USS George H W Bush (CVN-77) targeting an Islamic State vehicle staging site with PGMs. (The site was previously geolocated here). […]
Trevor Paglen, talking at Germany’s Chaos Computer Club in December 2013, presented the first video known of the RQ-170 Wraith in flight. A few months before the conference, Paglen setup his camera near Creech AFB in Nevada, to catch the aircraft making its ascent after takeoff. Paglen describes the aircraft engines like that of a “Tie […]
Boeing continues to successfully fly the QF-16 in live fire exercises to prepare for final testing as F-16s of Batch 2 head toward conversion. Flying above the skies of the White Sands Missile Range, the QF-16 represent the increasing combat capabilities of fourth-generation fighters, including the MiG-29 and Sukhoi Su-30. Most recently in July, Boeing simulated a missile strike on the […]
Holloman AFB gets a new drone hangar while the training program expands, according to some of the latest publicly available satellite imagery. According to a statement from the USAF, the 849th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron constructed a new hangar to house the MQ-1 and MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft that are used for worldwide-pilot training including numerous foreign services. […]
