While there aren’t any official photos out of the 22 Nov sunset intercept, there are a couple homemade ones floating around the ‘sphere – like these courtesy AW&ST’s Ares blog (subscription maybe required). No shots w/Bears – yet:
Word is the package was a couple of Raptors, a tanker (natch) and an AWACS. Do you see what we see on the 2nd shot? And on an operational vice ferry mission no less too…things that make you go hmmmm…
 A little Hawkeye Love over at Travel for Aircraft this week — head on over for a series of posts, and many photos of the mighty War Hummer! (props – literally to JM)
PROTON-M Launch Failure Fallout On Sept 7th, a Proton-M carrying a Japanese COMSAT exploded shortly after launch from the Baikonur (aka Tyuratam) Cosmodrome, located in Kazakhstan. In doing so, over 200 tons of toxic chemicals were dumped into the atmosphere, primarily a mixture of heptyl and amyl. The toxicity is well known and, unfortunately have…
If, like your humble scribe, you spent anytime turning the pages of the Tailhook Association’s quarterly pub, The Hook, between 1991 and 2011, you undoubtedly paused for Jack Woodul’s column “The Further Adventures of Youthly Puresome” drawn from his deep reservoir of stories from his time flying the A-4 and F-8 Â – and other sundry…
Lots to cover today: Airborne Laser (ABL) Passes Milestone Russia Declares for the Moon “by 2025” More Questions About the Bulava SLBM S-400 Triumf (SA-21) Production/Deployment Problems Second SS-27/Topol-M Battalion to Deploy By Year’s End More below the fold…
Two items of note for today’s summary — France may be seriously studying missile defense and Russia’s at it again (re. European Phase Adaptive Approach – PAA). Parlez-vous la Défense de Missile Balistique ? A recent 65-page study on BMD, written by three members of Parliament at a think tank linked to the National Assembly…
JAPAN – Citing Japanese victories in the Coral Sea and other battles, Radio Tokyo the previous day announces that “America and Britain… have now been exterminated. The British and American fleets cannot appear on the oceans.” Around the world, forces were joined and movement was afoot in this truly global war. In Russia, the 2nd…
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Ashamed to say I didn’t see what you were pointing out when I first saw the pics over at Ares. As soon as you mentioned it it stood out like a sore thumb, though. Hmmm indeed.
Soo, is the raptor thirsty? Or do they want to increase the RCS? Enquiring minds want to know.