The Next Steps for Missile Defense. Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/upload/bg2028.pdf April 25, 2007 The Next Steps for Missile Defense On July 4-5, 2006, North Korea test launched a salvo of ballistic missiles. Iran took the same action on November 2, 2006,...

The F-15 Eagle was designed in the 1960s. The Advanced Tactical Fighter, YF-23 and YF-22, were developed in the 1980s. The F-22 Raptor is simply the production version of the YF-22. Worse, some of the specifications and capabilities that the ATF was supposed to have, as of the 1980s, was dropped...

New VIDEO: Raytheon's Upgrades for Tomahawk See: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3a7a826f1f-624a-4c77-aaf8-8a838fb56d31

http://www.shephard.co.uk/Rotorhub/NewsAnalysis.aspx?Action=745115149&ID=1bb47a2b-e820-454a-9103-60a42dc65400 It’s often said Osprey flies like a plane and lands and takes off like a helicopter – but that is both a cliché and an understatement that hides the synergy that comes from...

Amazing Hypocrites http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=31803

Reporters take V-22 test flights Pentagon lets troubled aircraft testify on its own behalf 07:35 AM CDT on Thursday, July 14, 2005 By RICHARD WHITTLE / The Dallas Morning News MARINE CORPS AIR STATION NEW RIVER, N.C. - I thought I might be retired before this happened.

Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In Big February 2010 Newsletter Hello World War 2 & jet aircraft fans --- You're invited to drop by Zeno's Drive-In www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com for this month's flight of five exciting aviation documentary films playing over the Internet. This month we have a Premier and...

Does anyone know of where a good map of Santiago harbor (Cuba) could be located? So far all of the 1898 era maps seem fairly inaccurate and contradictory. A modern map would work just as well for me, but I can't find even any good commercial maps. I assume somewhere there might be some USAF...

I am looking for a piece of advice that was given to me when I was a new guy in the fleet. Basically it said shut up new guy and listen, I don't care what grades you had in flight school, you are nothing now. You'll know when you are important when people come to you and start asking you...

Greasy Rider© @invalid.com wrote in message ... That picture again? And this isn't even the best photo of the incident.

Georgian Journalist wounded while on the air, Russian fire...

The Second Revised Edition of "Military Aircraft Designations and Systems" from AeroFile Publications still has copies available, however, we are getting close to the end of our printing run. I am sure that if we expected the kind of response we have had, we would have budgeted for...

Because the unique sound made by the engines resembles a Hoover vacuum cleaner to some. My wife and I were walking the beach near the Hotel Del in 1998 when a Viking flew overhead on approach to NAS North Island, San Diego. You can hear the strange sound in this video....

Bush setting America up for war with Iran http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/16/wiran116.xml By Philip Sherwell in New York and Tim Shipman in Washington Last Updated: 3:20am BST 16/09/2007

The Naval Aviator's Code I am a Navy Pilot I will not drink But if I do I will not get drunk But if I do I will not get drunk in public But if I do I will not stagger

Does anyone know where I might find the side numbers/BuNo of the Aircraft lost on the USS Forestall on 29 July 1967. TIA. Walt -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

_China's Strategic Seapower: The politics of force modernisation in the nuclear age_ and _Imagined Enemies: China prepares for uncertain war_. Both by John Wilson Lewis and Xue Litai, Stanford University Press. Lewis and Xue have made a profession of studying Chinese military-political systems...

Military Personnel and Veteran Registry, Since 1988 Established on July 4th, 1988, the Military Personnel and Veteran Registry is the world's oldest and largest online listing of active and former military personnel. For more information, please see the following URLs: To Register an active or...

I want to buy a VHS copy of the Blue Angel Movie "Threshold". If anyone can steer me to a copy, it'd be much appreciated. Anyone with a copy they can part with, please respond by email Thanks JD

Everyone's seen the infamous photo of the F-14 at the carrier. Here's a link to an interview with the pilot. The pic's there if you haven't seen it. http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/interviews/snodgrass/