An Israeli Heron-TP unmanned aircraft sits on the tarmac during the April 2018 Berlin Air Show. (Photo by Sebastian Sprenger) Manufacturer Bayraktar has sold the TB2 to Qatar and Ukraine, while Serbia is eyeing a purchase, raising the TB2′s profile as a competitor to the Chine...
“This equipment has been involved in operations that potentially include jamming drone control channels and satellite signals.” Related Russia Has Lost Over 100 Aircraft In Ukraine So Far Russia has lost at least 100 fixed-wing aircraft in the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and possibly many mor...
Army Air Force (as it was then known) and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, the forerunner of NASA) placed an order with Bell Aircraft to produce three rocket planes. Eventually, testing of these aircraft was turned over to the U.S. Air Force, which had become a ...
Eventually, testing of these aircraft was turned over to the U.S. Air Force, which had become a separate branch of the military as part of the National Security Act of 1947. On Oct. 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager , an Air Force test pilot, broke the sound barrier in an X-1 rocket plane ...
On 6 October 1973, Israeli aircraft were bombing the invading Egyptian forces along the Suez Canal – hundreds of miles from Israel’s airbases – within an hour from the surprise attack. During the 10/7 invasion, not a single aircraft was to be seen for hours, though the attack took ...
Mr. Reasoner may be right, but a helicopter's peculiar design and configuration haven't diminished its impact. It's become one of the most versatile and widely used aircraft in the world today. Science fiction has served as a looking glass into the future for many advances we eventually cam...
China has completed its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, or BDS, becoming the fourth country in the world with a global navigation network, the other three being GPS of the U.S., GLONASS of Russia and Galileo of Europe. As the name suggests, the global navigation satell...
Some companies are using a localization strategy, adjusting financing so cash inflows and outflows are exposed to similar geopolitical conditions: for example, financing the purchase of aircraft leased to airlines in a country with debt from banks in that same country....
Why China has the world’s most numerous strategic bomber If you think nuclear-powered submarines or aircraft carriers are rare military assets, then consider heavy bombers: today, only three countries—Russia, the United States and China—operate any at all. ...
6 and 8, 1928, took it upon himself to make 10 trips in his Vought O2U Corsair aircraft into Quilali, Nicaragua, in order to evacuate 18 U.S. Marines who had been injured in the conflict there. These takeoffs were accomplished amidst burning villages and extensive enemy fire, according ...