GoPro cockpit video of a Chinese front-line fighter jet

【#軍事專題】飛行,是不少人自幼的夢想,後來卻因為體位等因素而無法實現。不過沒關係,現在就讓udn tv,透過GoPro微型攝影機,帶您上天翱翔,看空軍F-16飛行訓練時的編隊變換。※更多政軍新聞,參見天橋底下說政治

Posted by udn tv on Saturday, July 18, 2015

Raytheon and partners have developed lower-cost carbon fiber airframe for MALD

Raytheon , in partnership with Fokker and Dallara, has managed to reduced the airframe production costs of the Miniature Air Launched Decoy (MALD) by 25 percent.

F-16 carrying MALD
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British counter-MANPADS team training foreign governments

The British government has formed a counter-MANPADS team comprising of experts from the Royal Air Force, Scotland Yard and British Airways to teach foreign governments on how to prevent terrorists from shooting down airliners with shoulder-launched missiles.

How to disable MANPADS
By DTRA photo [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance grounded while waiting for flight clearance from Italy

NATO’s attempt to develop a high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle based on the Global Hawk has hit a road block as the Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) system is grounded in Sigonella while waiting for Italian aviation authorities to grant permission for test flights.

EuroHawk Landing ETSI 2011
By Philipp Hayer (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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