especially when stealth is outta there and comes… cheaper. If you want to go down low you still can do that with an F35, a B2 or n F22. It’s not a doctrinal choice to go nape of the earth, it’s tactical. The lack of capabilities to fly safely at altitude out of the bullet zone, on the other hand is a direct consequence of a failed… industrial doctrine.

Impressive for sure… But those are flying targets 😉

AQM37

that’s an interesting lead. But we would need more info on each case. So far I haven’t noticed any female name in those released.

Satellite images of ocean debris suggest 3 places to search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

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Taken two weeks after MH370 disappeared on 8 March 2014, the photos were analysed by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB). Its researchers used drift modelling of the debris to suggest a new potential location for the crash site — a 5,000 sq km (1930 sq miles) area just north of the former search zone.
Two Australian government agencies, Geoscience Australia and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), analysed the images, which were taken by a French military satellite but not released to the public.
The report said the detected objects appeared to form clusters, rather than being randomly scattered across the area.
The findings seemed to bolster the ATSB’s conclusion last November that the plane most likely crashed north of waters it spent more than two-and-a-half years searching. The CSIRO report provided precise coordinates —35.6°S, 92.8°E.

The fact that photos taken just north of the search zone were not reviewed at the time is rather weird. What utility has a Fr military sat if data recovered after such a tragic event are left unchecked for 3 years?

We had the debris littering the beaches illegally burnt on the place and pushed back at sea in French island La Reunion under the request of local authorities, the erupting volcano there triggering an evacuation of journalists away from the search zone without any real eruption and now this…

Also
US search company Ocean Infinity offers to look for MH370

Ocena Infinity

Source:
The Guardian
USA Today.com
The Australian.com

US Refuses Instructors to Train Turkey’s F-16 Pilots

During the thwarted coup, 25 coup pilots flew with F-16 jets and 11 of them bombed strategic sites. It was subsequently revealed that a significant number of followers of the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fehullah Gulen were in the Air Forces Command which led to the dismissal of 1,752 personnel.
Between 300 and 350 of those dismissed were warplane pilots and as a result the ratio of aircraft to pilots has nearly halved to less than one pilot per aircraft from the earlier 1.5.
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The United States has refused to send Instructors to train new pilots for Turkey’s F-16 […]. In addition, Washington has prevailed upon Pakistan not to send its F-16 instructors to Turkey. Islamabad had earlier agreed to train the Turkish pilots

Source:
DefenseWorld.net

have they worked around external causes. I mean, hypoxia in the AF, extreme fatigue and cognitive latence in the Navy… It’s not like X-band or HPMW have never been linked to this. [paranoia=OFF]

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If I am targeted among the posters, please keep paranoia at bay. That certainly not describes my thoughts. Thank you.

India to announce road map for single-engine fighter program

Both Lockheed Martin and Saab will be given three months to respond to the RFI, which will then be evaluated by an IAF expert committee and the final selection will be made early next year, the IAF official added.
Likewise, an expression of interest, or EOI, will be issued to domestic companies in the next three to four months, who will, in turn, tie-up with overseas original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, to build around 120 single engine fighters, initially costing around $18 billion under the strategic partnership model, an MoD official noted.

Source:
DefenseNews.com