The Missile Defense Agency and Lockheed Martin conducted a successful flight test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Weapon System today at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, HI. This flight test was THAAD’s seventh intercept to date and proved the system’s ability to intercept a unitary target in the low endo-atmosphere.
YouTube: A-12 First Flight
Lockheed Martin has uploaded video of the A-12’s first flight to its YouTube channel.
Tanzania FT-5 jet trainer crashed lands on highway, tourists hurt
A Tanzania FT-5 instructor and his student tried to make an emergency landing on a highway on Monday but both died while doing so. A picture of the crashed jet is in the article. Continue reading “Tanzania FT-5 jet trainer crashed lands on highway, tourists hurt”
King Abdullah expected to ask Obama for 72 F-15s
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah is expected to ask U.S. President Obama for 72 Boeing F-15s when he travel to Washington this week.
Levin: “there’s never been a competition on that (F-35) engine”
During a Defense Writers Group breakfast meeting yesterday, Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, refuted Robert Gates’ claim that there was an engine competition for the F-35. Continue reading “Levin: “there’s never been a competition on that (F-35) engine””