Hawkeye Week!
 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)
 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)
Couple of major milestones for the Advanced Hawkeye program announced today: Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP): An Acquisition Decision Memorandum, signed June 11 by the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, gave the Northrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye program approval to enter low-rate initial production. Having demonstrated that it has met all acquisition…
Via Pinch, comes a bevy of new E-2D shots from NAVAIR: Delta1 And 2 Presentation View more presentations from Steeljaw Scribe.
Revealed at the Russian engine manufacturer’s site (NPO Saturn) is this image of Sukhoi’s 5th generation fighter, the T-50. More here. Kinda has a familiar look, eh? (h/t DEW Line)
The following is an extract of a larger work I am preparing on fifty years of ASCM combat use and hopefully will be available in the coming year. – SJS Forces – Israel. The INS EILAT (K40) was originally commissioned in 1944 as the HMS ZEALOUS, a Z-class destroyer that saw extensive action as convoy…
On its face, it was innocuous enough a simple administrative traffic providing notification of an inspection by a senior officer of some outposts: ON APRIL 18 CINC COMBINED FLEET WILL VISIT RXZ,R–, AND RXP IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SCHEDULE: 1. DEPART RR AT 0600 IN A MEDIUM ATTACK PLANE ESCORTED BY 6 FIGHTERS. ARRIVE RXZ…
Seems all isn’t skittles ‘n’ beer over in Sukhoi land these days… Funding for the new engine for Russia’s next-generation fighter, the Sukhoi T-50, is in big financial trouble, and will force the aircraft’s firsts flight in 2009 to be undertaken with AI-31 engines now used on the Su-27. NPO Saturn, which led the engine…