Cars, chases and guns…but not what you think (see esp. beginning at 7:34)….
(h/t: SailorBob)
Heads-up fighter dudes — all those years of shooting at hapless drones may soon be over: Comes word, courtesy Defense Industry Daily that the QF-4 may be getting a new capability — to bite back: Yep — that’s a QF-4 firing the missile, an unmanned QF-4. No word on if it’s an AAM or ASM…
So … Luna Rossa smoked BMW Oracle to win the best-of-9 series, 5-1, sending the American team home and guaranteeing that for the first time in 24 years, there will be no American team in the finals… Congratulazioni Luna Rossa, la squadra migliore vinta!
The Government of India (finally) tendered it’s offer for the Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MRCA) – a deal estimated at $10B and one of the largest of it’s kind offered. Plan is to purchase a total of 128 with the first 18 bought in a "flyaway condition" to equip the first squadron. The remaining 108 will…
Some thoughts and wishes on the cusp of the New Year: Blog direction: Have taken the downtime during the holiday interregnum to map out some new directions. There are ample commentaries re. the war in Iraq and the ongoing GWOT (or GWAT if one prefers). Adding my 2-pence worth would be but another pebble in…
Yes folks – the VAW/VRC Memorial Scholarship Fund is still available for contributions through CFC — just takes a little digging. The CFC number for the Scholarship Fund is –35747 Please consider giving this year! w/r, SJS
RTB today from our Midwestern sojourn. Some news we will be posting on the morrow – in the meantime an update on the Vikramaditya (“Brave as the Sun”) via Barents Observer shows that it has been floated from dry dock (or beaching as was the case):
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