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 […]