Category: Notizie Estero

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has declassified its Project Aquiline on Jul. 30. The secretive program from the late 1960s was to build a bird-like unmanned air vehicle that can collect photographic and electronic intelligence plus emplacing sensors in denied environments. Photo: CIA Prime contractor was McDonnell Douglas and the vehicle’s dimensions are 5ft […]

The 421st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron has become the first F-35A unit in the U.S. Air Force to go on alert status this month. The historic milestone was reached during the deployment to U.S. Central Command. Based at Al Dhafra Air Base, the squadron carried out alert status exercises to provide the necessary data points to […]

The U.S. Air Force may replace its 218 F-15Es with F-15EXs, which could expand the new program to over 400 aircraft, according to service documents justifying the sole-source contract to Boeing. Photo: Boeing In its F-15EX Justification and Approval (J&A) document, which was dated March 2018 but only published this month, the flying branch said […]

Draken International will be transferring two ex-Polish Air Force MiG-21s from its inventory to the Wings Over Miami museum. Alf van Beem [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Right now, those two dissassembled warbirds are on a container truck bring them to Miami from a storage facility in Lakeland, Florida. The museum had requested for three […]