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Tag Archives: aircraft
China’s Funky Military Gyrocopter
Of all the weapons China is developing, gyrocopters rank very low among those I’m worried about. In truth, I wasn’t even aware they had them until this video popped up in my feed: The gyrocopter, AKA the autogyro, was a … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Military, video
Tagged aircraft, China, Foreign Policy, Hunting Eagle Strike gyrocopter, Military, People's Liberation Army, video
13 Comments
Ukraine To Get F/A-18s?
This seems like significant news. The US, and Ukraine are discussing sending 41 Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) F/A-18A/B Hornet fighter jets to Ukraine, rather than scrapping them as planned. Since the US recently granted permission for other Western allies … Continue reading
Posted in Military, Obama Scandals
Tagged aircraft, Australia, F/A-18 Hornet, Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukraine
20 Comments
LinkSwarm for April 28, 2023
Our Glorious Elites try mightily to keep us peons from expressing #WrongThink, two high profile media firings, and more Blue City decline. Enjoy a short but sweet Friday LinkSwarm! How the Deep State helped rig the election for Biden. It … Continue reading
Posted in Border Control, Crime, Democrats, Guns, Media Watch, Military, Republicans, Social Justice Warriors
Tagged aircraft, Alissa Heinerscheid, Andrew Lowenthal, Aspen Institute, Atlantic Council’s DFRLab, Border Controls, Budweiser, California, Center for European Policy Analysis, China, Chuck Schumer, Clemson, CNN, Don Lemon, EngageMedia, Eric Adams, Fox News, Graphika, LinkSwarm, littoral combat ships, Media Watch, Military, Navy, New York City, Newsguard, pedophilia, Public Good, San Francisco, Switzerland, The View, transexual, Tucker Carlson, Twitter
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Tilt-Rotor, Take Two
The U.S. Army has announced that it’s next helicopter isn’t a helicopter. The US Army awarded Textron Inc’s Bell unit with the contract to build the next-generation helicopter, ending years of fierce competition between Lockheed Martin Corp.-Boeing Co. to replace … Continue reading
Posted in Military, video
Tagged aircraft, army, helicopters, Military, V-22 Osprey, V-280 Valor, video
20 Comments
Russia’s Failure To Achieve Air Superiority
Early on, a lot of observers predicted that Russia, with it’s vast store of Soviet-era aircraft, would quickly achieve air-superiority over Ukraine. That hasn’t been the case. This video from the British Imperial War Museum lists some reasons why. Takeaways: … Continue reading
Posted in Military, video, Waste and Fraud
Tagged aircraft, corruption, drone, fraud, Imperial War Museum, MANPADS, Military, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukraine, video
11 Comments
The Sky Warden: “An Up-Armored Crop Duster With Rocket Launchers”
At first, I was not at all enthused about the Air Force’s new Sky Warden platform, a step back to a single-seat, propeller-driven combat aircraft not used since the Douglas A-1 Skyraider was retired in 1973. Some background: U.S. Special … Continue reading
Posted in Military, video
Tagged Air Force, aircraft, Charles Carpenter, Military, Sky Warden, The Fat Electrician, video, World War II
12 Comments
Ukraine Update for April 27, 2022
It’s been almost a month since we did the last general Ukraine-Russo War update, so let’s catch up. The biggest change is that Russia has given up on trying to take Kiev and has withdrawn all their forces in the … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Military
Tagged aircraft, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Belarus, Belgorod, Bryansk, Bucha, China, Donbas, Donetsk, Foreign Policy, Gazprombank, infrastructure, Javelin, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Military, Moskva, Oligarchs, Pavel Chikov, Russia, Russia’s 331st Guards Parachute Regiment, Russo-Ukrainian War, structure hits, Su-35, tanks, Ukraine, video, Vladimir Petrovich Frolov, Vladimir Putin, Vladislav Avayev
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Why Are Russia’s Arms Sucking So Badly?
So why is Russian miltech performing so badly in Ukraine? In addition to some of the reasons we’ve already covered, this video provides additional answers (skip to 1:35 in to avoid the sponsor blather). Russia has 2.5 to 3 million … Continue reading
Posted in Communism, Military, video
Tagged aircraft, Alexei Navalny, Almaz-Antey, Communism, Foreign Policy, Kalibr, Military, NPO Novator, ROSTEC, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian War, Sergey Chemezov, Siloviki, Soviet Union, UAC, Ukraine, video, Viktor Ivanov, Yevgeny Prigoshin
18 Comments
Just How Screwed Are Russian Airlines?
The answer is: “Pretty screwed.” Some takeaways: They’ve lost virtually all their international routes. They’re basically back to Soviet-era route choices. Aeroflot now has only one international flight route…into Belarus. It’s not just flights to and from Russia that are … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Foreign Policy, video
Tagged Aeroflot, aircraft, airlines, Boeing, Economics, Foreign Policy, Global Distribution System (GDS), Russia, Russo-Ukrainian War, Sukhoi, video
4 Comments