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$3 Million Patriot Missile Kills $200 Drone!

March 15, 2017 Patriot_missiles_being_launched_to_intercept_an_Iraqi_Scud_missile

US General David Perkins told an audience at a military conference that an “ally” of the US used a Patriot missile to shoot down a small off the shelf $200 View More ›

FighterSweep Staff No Comments Army Aviation, Drones, Military Aviation, News
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Drones Flying Over US Air Force and Navy Nuclear Facilities

March 9, 2017 bird-attacking-drone-2

While the military is not releasing much in the way of details the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, General John E. Hyten told Congress that ‘unauthorized intrusions’ were carried out View More ›

FighterSweep Staff No Comments Air Force, Civilian Aviation, Drones, Military Aviation, Navy, News
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US Air Force will Retire MQ-1 Predator Drone in 2018

February 28, 2017 MQ-1B_Predator_1

The US Air Force has announced plans to retire the MQ-1 Predator Drone and transition solely to the MQ-9 Reaper drone by 2018. Flying in combat for over 20 years View More ›

FighterSweep Staff 2 Comments Air Force, Drones, Military Aviation, News, Photos, Video
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B-2 Bombers Blast ISIS Training Camps in Libya

A pair of B-2 Stealth Bombers unleashed over 100 bombs on two ISIS training camps in Libya. In what is probably the last combat strike on ISIS by the Obama View More ›

FighterSweep Staff No Comments Air Force, Military Aviation, News
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Italy Agrees To U.S. Drone Strikes Over Libya

February 26, 2016 Italy Agrees To U.S. Drone Strikes Over Libya

Editor’s Note: In modern warfare, agreements such as this make life much simpler and allow for a fair amount of flexibility in the breadth and scope of operations conducted. By View More ›

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On Drone Strikes

With all the debate about drone strikes and their effectiveness, little has been said about the challenges presented by alternative methods of finishing the targets that are currently the domain of drones.

Brian Bauer 1 Comment Drones
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Breaking the Black Sea Blockade: How Far Will the West Go?

July 26, 2022 Snake Island, Ukraine. И.Е.Мазурок, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The Biden administration and EU nations have been painstakingly “careful” to confine the war to Ukraine’s frontiers and the nearby Black Sea, according to reports. They are avoiding anything that might View More ›

SOFREP No Comments Admin, Air Force, Army, Featured, Firearms, Foreign Policy, Law Enforcement, Military, News, News + Intel, Politics, Security, US Politics, World
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US F-22 Raptors Arrive In UAE After Wave Of Houthi Attacks

February 28, 2022

Amid all the recent Houthi militia attacks on key oil installations and bases located within Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the United States had announced that it would View More ›

SOFREP No Comments Air Force, Aviation, Foreign Policy, Global Politics, Middle East, Military, News, World
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Syrian State Media: US-Led Troops Took Hostages During ‘Large Airborne Operation’

January 6, 2022

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) special forces troops conducted a large operation targeting ISIS operatives, but the Syrian state media news outlet SANA claimed that American and Kurdish troops fired indiscriminately View More ›

SOFREP No Comments Air Force, Army, Coalition SOF, Marine Corps, Middle East, Military, Navy, News + Intel, Security, SOF, US Politics, War Stories
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Watch: Taking a look at Belarus ‘UCAV’ — Which is just a grenade launcher with quad-rotors strapped to it

January 23, 2019

Here in the United States, the phrase “military drone” conjures images of advanced air frames like Predators, MQ-9 Reapers, and Global Hawks — but in battlefields all around the world, View More ›

Alex Hollings No Comments Drones, Video
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