Japan’s first RQ-4B Global Hawk made its maiden flight on Apr. 15, 2021 from Palmdale, California.
Photo: Northrop Grumman
Category: UAV
Watch Marines destroy quadcopter using CLaWS
U.S. Marines in Central Command train on taking down a quadcopter using the Compact Laser Weapon System (CLaWS).
Video courtesy of the U.S. Marine Corps
USAF finally defeats China in a war game and it borrowed a concept proposed by RAND
The U.S. Air Force has finally figured out how to defeat a Chinese invasion of Taiwan in a massive war game last year. One of the strategy it used was to operate a large network of low-cost drones flying over the Taiwan Strait to sense and sometimes defeat small Chinese ships.
MQ-9 crashed because pilot pulled the wrong lever, twice
The U.S. Air Force has concluded its investigation into the crash on Jun. 25, 2020 of a MQ-9 assigned to the 108th Attack Squadron.
Photo: U.S. Air Force
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KC-135 will soon be able to defend itself using the Gladiator Pod
The U.S. Air National Guard Air Force Reserve Test Center (AATC) is planning to modify two KC-135s to equip them with a new communications, sensors and defensive pod.
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