F-15 Uses New Infrared Search And Track Pod To Shoot Down Target With AIM-9X Sidewinder
Legion Pod will enable F-15s and F-16s to detect and engage even stealthy aircraft without having to turn on their radars.
Legion Pod will enable F-15s and F-16s to detect and engage even stealthy aircraft without having to turn on their radars.
Hundreds of pages of documents provide consistent detailed descriptions of the drones and conclude the military wasn't behind the operation.
The helmet is part of a major auction of famous movie props with the auction house estimating that it will fetch around $50,000.
The goal is for the space-based platform to support various test, training, and other missions, possibly with humans aboard in the future.
With the Air Force contracting Boeing for as many as 200 F-15EXs, additional exports of advanced Eagles could soon follow suit.
The video shows J-10 pilots going at it in air-to-air combat up-close and personal while speaking English and using western brevity codes.
USS Bonhomme Richard's catastrophic fire should prompt big changes to in port practices. The Navy should start by looking at its nuclear vessels.
The service is developing inexpensive stand-off munitions that can be networked together and with other weapons.
Australia has also signaled that it wants to look for a new platform to replace or at least augment its 737-based E-7 radar jets.
The service says the ship is stable and structurally sound, but that it's too early to assess its salvageability.
VF-31 'Tomcatters" F-14D is seen raging through the skies during the final weeks of the type's service in 2006.
It's the second loss of an F-16 for the base in less than a year and comes after a string of major Air Force mishaps over the last 60 days.
The Navy says it is throwing everything it has at fighting the blaze on the stricken amphibious assault ship as it enters into its 28th hour.
Air Force just awarded Boeing a contract worth nearly $23 billion related to these aircraft, which includes the purchase of the first lot.
The type's first retirement comes 40 years nearly to the day after its first flight and as Congress works to delay such retirements.
The blaze appears to have migrated to the ship's superstructure that is packed full of sensors, communications gear, weapons, and much more.
If this comes to fruition, it would be a huge boost for the service's icebreaking capacity as competition in the Arctic region grows.
Smoke is billowing from the ship as firefighters from around San Diego have moved in to try to stop the blaze.
The video highlights just how much fly-by-wire automation is needed to make the Raptor's super maneuverability a reality.
The YA-7F program aimed to field a new battlefield interdiction jet for pennies on the dollar by using spare engines and airframes. And it worked.