Everything From Strike Eagles to Drones at U.S.’ African Hub
View Larger Map Wow, Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, the Pentagon’s bastion in the Horn of Africa, has grown like crazy. While we’ve all heard it was expanding, I hadn’t seen anything to give a sense of how massive its growth has been, until now. I hadn’t look at Google Maps satellite pics of the base in
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Single Part Breaking Lost a $72 Million Drone
On August 11, 2011 Air Force ground controllers lost contact with one of the military’s most advanced — and expensive — drones, an EQ-4B Global Hawk as the jet flew high over Eastern Afghanistan. Nine hours into an otherwise smooth communications relay mission using the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN), the plane was cruising at
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Eglin F-35A Makes First Flight Since Arriving, Leaks Fuel
Doh! A fuel leak!? From sister site DoDBuzz: The Air Force’s F-35s at Eglin AFB were cleared to fly just as
Using Mules in Burma | Fold3 Spotlights
–Jack Burgin, Royal Air Force . During World War II, British soldiers were sent to the southeast Asian country of Burma (modern-day Myanmar) to fight the Japanese. Burma's terrain was dominated by jungles and mountains, …
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Eglin F-35As Cleared for Flight
The Air Force’s F-35A Joint Strike Fighter training jets that have been sitting on the tarmac at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., — home of the F-35 schoolhouse — have finally been cleared to fly. Now, this doesn’t mean that student pilots will be strapping on the A-model jets later in the week. The Eglin
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USAF Looking to Silicon Valley to Get its Innovation Mojo Back
So the Air Force has finally decided to reach out to Silicon Valley in hopes of figuring out how a massive bureaucracy can attempt to keep up with the blistering pace of innovation in the cyber realm. Senior Air Force scientists are “taking a visit out to Silicon Valley, meeting with the leadership in Silicon
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Northrop repairs British aircraft » Latin Business Today
22 (UPI) — The first E-3D Sentry aircraft repaired in the United States is back in operation with the British air force , Northrop Grumman announced. The E-3D Sentry is an Airborne Warning and Control System with an airframe …
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US Navy base on Sicily re-opens after flood-related closure …
Officials at the U.S. Navy base on Sicily re-opened the base Wednesday about 4:15 p.m. after it had been closed about eight hours because of flooded roads leading to both Naval Air Station Sigonella I and II, a Navy …
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DoD’s 2013 Budget Preview (Updated with Docs)
Happy budget day! Yup, the Pentagon’s 2013 budget request officially drops today and according to Reuters, it’s going to ask for $187.8 billion to buy planes and ships while chopping cash for ground vehicles. As we’ve said before, in the 2013 budget, strategic weapons are winning the funding game in the second decade of the 21st
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