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Catching up from last week - Thursday another test of the AEGIS BMD system was successfully completed with the conclusion of FTM-11 off Hawaii. A test of the AEGIS BMD 3.6, it was a simultaneous shot against a representative SRBM target with a SM-3 Blk 1a with a simultaneous shot against a cruise missile [...]

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., April 30, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) — The first Northrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, being built for the U.S. Navy by prime contractor Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), made its first public appearance at rollout ceremonies here today. The E-2D was designed in New York and built in St. Augustine.

The aircraft unveiled today [...]

One of the threads arising out of the F-22 “Raptor-ski” post was the practice of using foreign designs to advance indigenous efforts. All nations, at one time or another, have used this process. The US manned space program though Apollo, for example, is but an outgrowth of Werner von Braun’s concepts and designs [...]

Revealed at the Russian engine manufacturer’s site (NPO Saturn  ) is this image of Sukhoi’s 5th generation fighter, the T-50. More here 1.
Kinda has a familiar look  , eh? (h/t DEW Line  )
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Standing up and stretching after what had seemed an eternity on this C-141 flight, the LTJG was finding aches and sore points that he had previous not known. As he stepped off the plane onto the bright tarmac, the colors of Norfolk in mid-spring bloom came crashing [...]

A couple of notes for the next few days — YHS will be taking a temporary (overnight) residence at Bethesda for surgery…and since it would be unseemly to try and post on recuperative medicine there will be a slight mod to the normal flight sched for Thursday and Friday while going EMCON ALPHA through [...]

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And 015? Well, a small crew was already making steady progress at assessing her state that evening. When he left Saturday, he was surprised to see the MODEX already painted on her nose, squadron seal and Battle ‘E’, Safety ‘S’ and AEW Excellence awards applied and the beginnings of the sunburst [...]

Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin 1passed away today as the result of an undisclosed cause. He was 76.
Remember this?

…but there was also this:

A portrait cast in tragic contradictions, Boris Yeltsin was the first popularly elected president in Russia’s history, garnering 57% of the vote in 1992. That followed a signatory confrontation in October 1991 [...]

Lord, guard and guide the men who flyThrough the great spaces in the sky,Be with them always in the air,In dark’ning storms or sunlight fair.O, Hear us when we lift our prayer,For those in peril in the air.
(Update 22 Apr):More details   at Tailhook Daily Briefing, also you need to head over to Lex’s place [...]

Quite a backlog of geopolitical news to sort through while YHS was gone this week including a ton on Russia, missile defense, INF and more. Here is a quick one re. India and support for arms sanctions vs. Iran and North Korea…(from New Dehli Zee News Television, 19 Apr)

India has prohibited trade in all [...]