Posts Tagged ‘Air Force’
Germany’s Chief of Army Staff and Deputy Defense Minister Resign after Coverup of Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan are Revealed
DW-World.de | Deutsche Welle | 26 November 2009 Germany's army chief of staff resigns over NATO airstrike in Kunduz The head of Germany's armed forces has tendered his resignation. The move comes after media reported that the government may have withheld information about a deadly attack that killed numerous civilians in [...]
Following False Alarm, the Special U.S. Military Unit to Take Out Pakistan’s Nuclear Assets had Reached Dubai from Andrews AFB in Maryland, Earlier this Summer, Before Being Called Off
The New Yorker | By Seymour M. Hersh | 9 November 2009 ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY Defending the Arsenal In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe? In the tumultuous days leading up to the Pakistan Army’s ground offensive in the tribal area of South Waziristan, which began on October 17th, the Pakistani Taliban [...]
India to Manufacture Indigenous “Drones”
By Ravi Sharma | Bangalore | 5 November 2009 Significant step toward indigenous UAV In a significant step that will give the Indian armed forces an indigenously designed and developed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a technological demonstrator (TD) of the Rustom will take to the Hosur skies this month. (more...)
When Drones Kill Civilians, Is it Terrorism?
Huffington Post | Sanjeev Bery | 5 November 2009 "Pretend Secrecy" Shields the White House from a Drone Missile Debate It is time to set aside the notion that U.S. drone missile attacks in Pakistan are some kind of secret. The pretense of secrecy has saved Obama Administration officials from having to publicly defend the military tactic. [...]
An Inside Look at Task Force ODIN Operations in Afghanistan
Aviation Week | By Paul McLeary | 2 November 2009 ODIN Alerts Assault Teams To Hidden Dangers Bagram AFB, Afghanistan -- The camera didn’t catch the helicopters landing, or see the soldiers piling out and securing the landing zone. The unblinking eye attached to a U.S. Army Warrior Alpha unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) circling thousands of [...]
Real-Time Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) Data Sharing Technology for the “Af/Pak” Theatre
Aviation Week | By Guy Norris/China Lake | 22 July 2009 Empire Challenge Pushes Precision ISR New methods of gathering and sharing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) data and getting information directly to the soldier in the field are entering a final demonstration phase in California before entering service with coalition [...]
India-U.S. Defence Agreement
Aviation Week | By Neelam Mathews/New Delhi | 20 July 2009 India And U.S. Agree On Defense Pact India and the U.S. have agreed on a defense pact that is expected to boost U.S arms sales to India. In a significant step ahead in bilateral relationship, India and the U.S have agreed to enter into an understanding on the long awaited end-use [...]
Governance Support: A Helicopter for Karzai
Danger Room Reports: Flat Panel TVs, Weak Defenses on Karzai’s U.S.-Bought Copter By Sharon Weinberger | July 6, 2009 | 12:04 am Wood paneling, leather executive chairs, wall-to-wall carpeting, and two flat-panel TV monitors attached to a DVD player. These are just a few of the amenities included in three VIP helicopters bought by the [...]
U.S to Ship Russian-Made Helicopters to Pakistan
Bloomberg | By Tony Capaccio June 3 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. military plans to lease four of its Russian-made transport helicopters to the Pakistan army to bolster its fight against the Taliban in the nation’s ungoverned northwest territories, according to U.S. and Pakistani officials. The helicopters were among the top items that Pakistan [...]
China Develops Simple Black Box to Neutralise HARM Defence against SAMs
Danger Room reports: China Looks to Undermine U.S. Power, With ‘Assassin’s Mace’ By David Hambling | July 2, 2009 | 4:32 pm Could China wipe out an American military advantage with a simple black box? Joshua Cooper Ramo’s thought-provoking book The Age of the Unthinkable challenges all kinds of conventional thinking about [...]
