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Vipers…In a Viper (F-16)?
From strategypage.com comes this story of life imitating art: Snakes on a Plane Bring F-16 Down Apparently, a poisonous insect or snake in the cockpit brought down a Dutch F-16 in Afghanistan last August. After a 11 month investigation, that ended up as the only plausible explanation for the loss. The dead pilot did not…
Tehran Announces Wargames/Missile Tests
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran plans to conduct missile war games during a three-day period beginning Sunday, state-run television reported. The war games will be carried out near Garmsar city, about 60 miles southeast of Tehran, according to the broadcast. “Zalzal and Fajr-5 missiles will be test fired in the war game,” the broadcast quoted…
Laying paving stones of ‘good intentions’ …
… on the road to hell. Comes this word (via B5): The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops’ online activities since the…
Postcards
A new feature wherein YHS dips into his photo-locker of some 40+ years. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. The Battle “E” Bluetails (VAW-121) — 6+months into deployment, 3 more to go. We *thought* we were leaving the next day for only our 2nd port visit that deployment — Perth, Australia. Iraq…
China’s ASAT – The Problem With Debris (Part II)
Well, can’t say YHS was entirely surprised. As we first discussed here, the repercussions of this type of test would be felt for sometime. Comes now today an article from Reuters wherein we find the debris field to be larger than first expected: U.S. DETAILS CHINA SATELLITE DEBRIS, Reuters, April 11, 2007. A larger than…