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• in Technology
  USAF Stealth UAV No Longer a UFO
  UAV identified as Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel
  by knowlengr / on Dec 9, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “USAF”

• Major Mom writes note on Freedom

  
  Heart Book Series — Authority: 114
  I served 14 years in the US Air Force and it was a great way of life. I worked with nuclear weapons, but I never had to face battle. Sometimes, when you don’t work the front lines, you don’t feel important… but everyone in the service is important from Chow Hall Cooks to Admin Troops. Freedom is NOT FREE. ...
  3 hours ago

• USAF Appears To Shelve C-130 Upgrade

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The U.S. Air Force appears to have halted the forthcoming competition to build C-130 Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) kits, a sign that this program could be terminating in the coming budget request for 2011. On Dec. 16, the Air Force program office overseeing the C-130 AMP program issued a statement noting that ...
  2 days ago

• Send the troops a video

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 150
  December 23, 2009Send the troops a video to wish them Happy Holidays via the DOD website.Here’s a few excerpts from a post “Holiday Cheer for the Heroes” on the White House Blog by Tech. Sgt. Nathan Gallahan that’s worth reading in its entirety. [Im not promoting the DOD or WH websites.] Tech Sgt Gallahan has ...
  2 days ago

• SANTA’S ON HIS WAY….

  
  kansasprairie.net — Authority: 432
  It’s beginning to snow, just a little bit, and the wind is blowing like fury.  It’s 21 degrees with a wind chill of 3 degrees and wind gusts of 38 mph.  It’s not the best of days, but at least there isn’t a lot of precipitation…yet.  Our yard is still covered with ice crusted snow.Grandson’s [...]
  2 days ago

• USAF to beef up spending on Montana missile roads (ROADS!)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - The U.S. Air Force is aiming to spend up to $7 million annually through 2015 to spruce up roads where it transports personnel and equipment to Montana missile sites. Cascade County Road Supervisor Dave Sutton said the typical missile road maintenance programs only include applying new gravel ...
  2 days ago

• THE BIRD HAS LANDED…

  
  kansasprairie.net — Authority: 432
  Youngest grandson left San Antonio after his certification test yesterday and landed  in Ellsworth about 4:00 this morning.  His dad  called this morning to tell me so “I wouldn’t worry”.  Actually, I wouldn’t have given it much thought until I knew he was on the road.  I’m especially happy he’s ...
  3 days ago

• CERTIFIED RESPIRATORY THERAPIST…

  
  kansasprairie.net — Authority: 432
  Youngest grandson is officially a certified respiratory therapist.  Congratulations, Tyler.  You’ve worked and studied hard to get to this level.
  4 days ago

• CIA, USAF duped by con artist in al Jazeera TV scam?

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 516
  Ai-yi-yi. A con artist convinced the CIA and other US agencies in 2003 that he could decode secret messages sent by al-Qaeda through al-Jazeera broadcasts , Playboy magazine reports. Duped by claims that "barcodes" on al-Jazeera television contained targeting information for al-Qaeda attacks, ...
  4 days ago

• Co-Authors Interviewed Today on What’s Your Bottom Line?

  
  Heart Book Series — Authority: 114
  Co-Authors Interviewed Today on What’s Your Bottom Lin e? Co-Authors to the Veterans Day release of the Heart of a Military Woma n book, Eldonna Lewis Fernandez and Sheryl Roush , are being interviewed today, Tuesday, December 22, 2009, on What’s Your Bottom ...
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• Army Wife Network Selects Heart of a Military Woman as Book of the Month

  
  Heart Book Series — Authority: 114
  Army Wife Network Selects Heart of a Military Woman as Book of the Month December 21, 2009 The Army Wife Network has selected the Heart of a Military Woman book as their January 2010 Book of the Month choice, announced by Book Club Chair Sarah Ikena. In a live radio show tonight on ...
  4 days ago

• Lockheed Martin Super Hercules Deliveries Continue to Strengthen USAF Fleet in Europe — Press Release

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 144
  Lockheed Martin Super Hercules Deliveries Continue to Strengthen USAF Fleet in Europe MARIETTA, Ga., Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ — Brig. Gen. Michael W. Callan, Vice Commander, 17th Air Force and U.S. Air Forces Africa, from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, today accepted the tenth of 14 Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) C-130Js to ...
  5 days ago

• F-22s complete first Middle East deployment

  
  Ralph Dagza — Authority: 135
  F-22s complete first Middle East deployment : About time……
  5 days ago

• Skipping a Grade

  
  In From the Cold — Authority: 466
  Pending confirmation by the Senate, Air Force Brigadier General Richard C. Harding is set to achieve something rare in the military--or perhaps we should say something that was once rare in our armed forces. Once approved by the Senate (a mere formality at this point), Harding will become the next Judge Advocate ...
  1 week ago

• Today in History: Linebacker II Begins

  
  Chaotic Synaptic Activity — Authority: 103
  When the enemy thinks they can stall peace talks, how do you respond?  With a diplomatic tools that “communicates” beyond the Paris meeting room. On this day in 1972, Linebacker II , the largest air campaign since WWII began, with Air force and Navy planes filling the skies over North Vietnam. For 11 days, ...
  1 week ago

• Even Predator UAVs face Information Security problems

  
  David Cenciotti's weblog - the most visited Italian Aviation Blog — Authority: 412
  A series of interesting articles, dealing with the interception of live video feeds broadcasted by the Predator UAVs (Unmanned Air Vehicles) operating in Iraq and Afghanistan by the local insurgents, was published today on worldwide newspapers. Evidence of the hack was found in the insurgent’s laptops that ...
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• A Joint Connection in the Skies Over Afghanistan

  
  Milcom Monitoring Post — Authority: 136
  An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the Black Aces of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 41 refuels from a U.S. Air Force KC-10 Extender aircraft. The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is on a deployment to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Graham ...
  1 week ago

• The Penny Drops: Iraq Chooses its Training & COIN Aircraft

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  In counter-insurgency fights, slower aircraft are often better than front-line jet fighters. In April 2007, Flight International reported that the USAF’s Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) had issued a solicitation on behalf of the Iraqi Air Force [IqAF] to buy at least 8 counter-insurgency (COIN) aircraft, with a ...
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• Predator Drones: WATCH THIS NOW Channel

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 132
  Insurgents in Iraq have hacked into live video feeds from Predator drones, the militarys eyes in the sky for surveillance and intelligence collection. A senior defense official says militants could see the video, but there is no evidence they were able to jam the electronic signals from the unmanned aerial crafts or ...
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• Multinational wing completes first mission into Iraq

  
  Milcom Monitoring Post — Authority: 136
  A C-17 Globemaster III from the multinational Heavy Airlift Wing based at Papa Air Base, Hungary, makes the new units first landing at Baghdad International Airport, Iraq. The airlift into Iraq was a first by the wing and facilitated the deployment for members of the NATO Training Mission-Iraq. The wing operates three ...
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• Close encounters of the FalconSAT kind

  
  Milcom Monitoring Post — Authority: 136
  by Jack Anthony, U.S. Air Force Academy Space Systems Research Center U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AFNS) -- Satellites from the U.S. Air Force Academy and the Department of Energy intentionally passed within five kilometers of each other in orbit Dec. 13, with one satellites sensors trained upon the other. The two ...
  1 week ago

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