Author: andrei

HH-60 Pave Hawk. The Air Force is still searching for its replacment, and delays in that program could mean that some of the current CSAR choppers will be flying long…

Larry Johnson’s “inside” source, with apologies to the late Sterling Hayden (photo courtesy Dave Typinski’s Dr. Strangelove page). When the press reported last week’s inadvertent “transfer” of six Air Force…

B-52s at Minot AFB, North Dakota. A Minot-assigned bomber inadvertently carried five nuclear warheads during a cross-country flight to Barksdale AFB, Louisiana on August 30th, raising concerns about weapons safety…

Amtrak’s California Zephyr. Fugitive Democratic fund-raiser Norman Hsu was taken from the train when it passed through Grand Junction, Colorado on Thursday. Hsu is facing jail time on a 1992…

A little over a year after its war with Hizballah, Israel has apparently struck at weapons intended for the group, and Syrian military facilities used to support the delivery process.…

CF-18 over Hawaii (Wikipedia)A hat-tip to reader John, who discovered this item in the Halifax Nova Scotia Chronicle Herald. In a conversation with the paper’s editorial board last Friday, Lieutenant…

An Israeli Air Force F-16I Sufa (Storm) Photo courtesy GlobalSecurity.org Reports continue to circulate about the possible target of last week’s Israeli military strike in eastern Syria. According to The…

From today’s U.K. Guardian comes this utterly predictable account of Al Qaida’s “resurgence.” According to the paper, the terrorist organization has revived, spread and is again capable of staging another…

An RAF Typhoon shadows a Russian Bear H bomber, during an intercept flown last month (U.K. MoD via AFP) For the third time in less than a month, Norwegian and…

 (GlobalSecurity.org)Israeli Air Force F-15Is Sunday’s U.K. Times provided tantalizing details of Israel’s recent airstrike against that Syrian nuclear facility. Based on reporting from the Middle East and Washington, the Times…