Posted by Java Joe on August 20, 2020 · Leave a Comment
Two US drones collided and crashed over Idlib, Syria Tuesday. It is yet unknown if they were shot at afterward and whether that is what caused the crash. Images of burning aircraft crashing to the ground were posted on social media.
Posted by Java Joe on November 13, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The US signed off on arms exports worth $192.3 billion over the past year, a 13 percent increase from the previous year.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Daniel MacInnis, defense budget, Electric Boat, F-35A, foreign arms sales, Mark J. Mouriski, MK-62 Quickstrikes, MQ-8 Fire Scout, MQ-9 Reapers, Next Generation Jammer, nuclear north korea, sequestration
Posted by Java Joe on September 6, 2018 · Leave a Comment
An F-35C flying from USS Abraham Lincoln was damaged during an aerial refueling exercise. Debris from an aerial refueling basket was ingested into the F-35C’s engine intake, resulting in damage costing about $2 million.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Bob Woodward, F-16, F-35C, Fear: Trump in the White House, James M. Inhofe, military spouses, MQ-9 Reapers, Niger, South China Sea, Tata Advance Systems Limited
Posted by Java Joe on July 9, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act allocates funding for nearly three times as many unmanned vehicles as in previous years.
Posted by Java Joe on June 6, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The MQ-4C Triton Broad Area Maritime System high-altitude long-endurance UAV has been officially put into service with Unmanned Patrol Squadron 19 at Naval Base Ventura County in Point Mugu, Calif. VP-19 now has two Triton UAVs.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags ADM Karl Schultz, Artemis UAS, background checks, drones, hypersonic cruise missile, Jason Dunham, MALE drone, Manhar Dhanak, MQ-4C Triton, MQ-9 Reapers, Naval Strike Missile, spy drones, The Sullivans, US Cyber Command, VUP-19
Posted by Java Joe on June 5, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The F-22 Raptor has deployed to the Pacific as part of a theater security mission, swapping in for the Air Force’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags BAE Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton, Expedition 60/61, F-22 Raptor, F-35, FFG(X), Fincantieri, frigate Alpino, German drones, Lockheed Martin, MQ-9 Reapers, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Senate defense policy bill, Top Gun
Posted by Java Joe on January 16, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The US Navy has successfully completed its first joint air-to-ground missile flight test on the AH-1Z helicopter at NAS Patuxent River.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Aegis Ashore, AH-1Z helicopter, David Norquist, DoD audit, General Atomics, Hawaiian missile alert, MQ-9 Reapers, opioids, P-8 Poseidon, Russian drones, SpaceX, spy satellite, US Central Command, VA transparency, Zuma
Posted by Java Joe on October 23, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Remotely piloted Air Force drones were put to work to help combat the recent California wildfires. MQ-9 Reapers from the Air National Guard’s 163rd Attack Wing were put into service in Northern California.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, California Air National Guard, COMNAVAIRLANT, cyber threats, DefSec James Mattis, drones, electromagnetic technology, electronic warfare, F-35C, F/A-18 Hornets, MQ-9 Reapers, P-8A Poseidon, RADM Roy J. Kelley, RADM Trey Wheeler, USS Carl Vinson
Posted by Publisher on January 6, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Europe leads the US in developing weaponry to fit stealth fighters. Current weapons are too large.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Chamblis, Dennis Lewis, Israel, Israel and Japan, Japan, Kyle Rambo, MQ-1 Predators, MQ-9 Reapers, net neutrality, NSA, ONR, Rear Adm. Mathias Winter, Sharon Helman, Supreme Court