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DARPA tech lets one pilot control multiple aircraft using only their brain

March 31, 2019

Ever since the first military drone took to the sky, pilots have wondered if their days in the fight were numbered. Drones, first relied on for reconnaissance, were soon armed View More ›

Alex Hollings No Comments Military Aviation, News
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Russia’s nuclear-powered cruise missile has the same crucial weakness as its stealth fighter

March 29, 2019

For a time, it seemed Russia was steaming toward fielding real fifth-generation stealth fighters, a development with serious security implications, based on the nation’s aggressive posture toward NATO and America’s View More ›

Alex Hollings 2 Comments News, Technology
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China claims to have developed ‘anti-stealth’ radar that doesn’t seem physically possible

March 28, 2019

Although Russia’s defense program marketing efforts may be among the most robust in the world, China is no slouch when it comes to making lofty claims about military capabilities through View More ›

Alex Hollings No Comments Military Aviation, News
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Watch: The first flight of what could be the US military’s future long-range assault aircraft

March 27, 2019

The Sikorsky-Boeing joint helicopter initiative known as the SB-1 Defiant made its first flight last week, gingerly leaving the ground and hovering around the airfield at a Sikorsky facility in View More ›

Alex Hollings 1 Comment Military Aviation, News
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Why do the Pentagon’s reasons for buying new F-15s keep shifting?

March 27, 2019

Even among fans of Boeing’s F-15EX initiative, you won’t find anyone who will contend that the F-15 is a superior aircraft to Lockheed Martin’s Joint Strike Fighter. On paper, a View More ›

Alex Hollings No Comments Military Aviation, News
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Acting defense secretary under investigation for alleged Boeing bias

March 26, 2019

Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing executive with no other government experience, is now the nation’s longest-serving acting secretary of defense in history, having taken on the role after James Mattis View More ›

Alex Hollings No Comments Military Aviation, News
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China says US media is lying about why Pacific nations want the F-35

March 25, 2019

China’s aggressive claims of sovereignty over the vast majority of the South China Sea have put the nation at odds with many of its Pacific neighbors, many of whom have View More ›

Alex Hollings No Comments Military Aviation, News
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Rest Easy: Ranger assigned to secretive reconnaissance unit dies in free-fall accident

March 23, 2019

A Ranger serving with the secretive Ranger Reconnaissance Company (RRC) died in a free-fall parachute accident on March 15th. Sgt. 1st Class Ethan Carpenter was assigned to the 75th Ranger View More ›

FighterSweep Staff No Comments Military Aviation, News
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Russia’s 20-ton ‘Hunter’ is supposed to be their first stealth UCAV

March 23, 2019

Last July, a single grainy image of Russia’s long-anticipated Okhotnik (Hunter) unmanned combat aerial vehicle hit the web, prompting a flurry of headlines speculating about the 20-ton drone’s potential as View More ›

Alex Hollings No Comments Military Aviation, News
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Watchdog report: Navy risking troops’ lives by pushing the F-35C into combat

March 23, 2019

Last month, the United States Navy declared that the carrier-based variant of Lockheed Martin’s Joint Strike Fighter, known as the F-35C, was ready to commence combat operations. Now, a new View More ›

Alex Hollings 1 Comment Military Aviation, News
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