Daily FlipScramble with Fighter Pilots of the Chinese Air Forceverified_publisherPopular Mechanics - Kyle MizokamiThis video promoting China's air arm has a little bit of everything. A video promoting the People's Liberation Army Air Force—informally known as the Chinese Air Force—has surfaced on YouTube. The video attempts to show the PLAAF as a service fully prepared to defend the country's air space, as well …
Daily FlipThe U.S. Dropped its First Bomb from a B-52 on ISIS. Then the Military Put it on YouTube.verified_publisherEsquire - Peter WadeOn April 18, the United States started a campaign of airstrikes around Mosul in northern Iraq led by a group of B-52H Stratofortress bombers, the first time a B-52 was used against ISIS. And then the military put videos of the strikes on YouTube. Welcome to modern warfare. This marks the first time …
Daily FlipWhy did Japan just build a stealth fighter jet?csmonitor.com - Christina BeckJapan is now in the ranks of countries with high-tech stealth jets, an exclusive group that includes the US, China, and Russia. Japan’s first stealth …
Daily FlipWhy Did Russia's Military Just Buy Five Dolphins?NBC News - By Alexey EremenkoRussia's Ministry of Defense just bought five bottlenose dolphins. MOSCOW — When governments award military contracts it's usually so they can obtain equipment such as guns, missiles and aircraft engines. But this week Russia's Ministry of Defense bought some dolphins — and it won't explain why. The …
Daily FlipDARPA Just Built a Robotic Hunter-Killer in Record Timeverified_publisherFOX Business - Rich SmithSea Hunter. See Sea Hunter hunt submarines. Hunt, Sea Hunter! Hunt! Image source: Leidos. Was it really only December that DARPA told us it was building a submarine-hunting drone-ship for the Navy? Well, get ready to be surprised. Just four months after we learned of the existence of the Anti-Submarine …
Daily FlipJapan’s first stealth fighter jet test: ‘extremely stable’verified_publisherCNNCNN — Japan joined the exclusive stealth jet club Friday with the successful test flight of its first radar-evading aircraft – a prototype called the X-2. The test pilot described the flight as “extremely stable,” according to manufacturer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The twin-engine jet – painted in …
