Goldfein: Air Force still looking for ‘smoking gun’ causing hypoxia problems

Since Hypocania is the new black in military aviation, you can read more on it here on Wiki

Even when marked, hypocapnia is normally well tolerated.[1] However, hypocapnia causes cerebral vasoconstriction, leading to cerebral hypoxia and this can cause transient dizziness, visual disturbances, and anxiety. A low partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the blood also causes alkalosis (because CO2 is acidic in solution), leading to lowered plasma calcium ions and increased nerve and muscle excitability. This explains the other common symptoms of hyperventilation —pins and needles, muscle cramps and tetany in the extremities, especially hands and feet.[citation needed]
Because the brain stem regulates breathing by monitoring the level of blood CO2 instead of O2, hypocapnia can suppress breathing to the point of blackout from cerebral hypoxia.[citation needed]
Hypocapnia also results in bronchoconstriction in order to decrease ventilation. This mechanism is meant to counteract hyperventilation, and decrease the amount of oxygen coming into the lungs. The body’s “goal” is to have a relatively even ratio of the partial pressure of oxygen to the partial pressure of carbon dioxide. Chemoreceptors in the body sense a change in partial pressures and pH (hydrogen ion concentration) in the blood. Chemoreceptors are responsible for signaling vasoconstriction, vasodilation, bronchoconstriction, and bronchodilation.[citation needed]

Sources:
C4ISRNet.com
Wiki

Russia Widens EW War, ‘Disabling’ EC-130s In Syria

The Compass Call is supposed to be one of America’s foremost electronic warfare weapons, but the EC-130s flying near Syria are being attacked and disabled “in the most aggressive EW environment on the planet,” the head of Special Operations Command said here today.
“Right now in Syria we are operating in the most aggressive EW environment on the planet from our adversaries. They are testing us everyday, knocking our communications down, disabling our EC-130s, etcetera,” Gen. Raymond Thomas told an audience of some 2,000 intelligence professionals.
[…]
[Russians] may have taken the much easier route of interfering with the Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) or their communications gear, making it more difficult to fly the aircraft since crews would have had to rely on maps, line of sight and other techniques.
“The problem the EC-130s have is that, while they are jamming, the crews aren’t doing much else,” making them more vulnerable to attacks, she says. “They could have gone after the PNT or the comms.” The Russians “know all of our vulnerabilities.”

In the same line, you can read also Why Syria may be the most aggressive electronic warfare environment on Earth

Sources:
BreakingDefense.com
C4ISRNet.com

I invite you to search all the meaning of the verb to lie.

Then take the time to remember all that decade of harsh diatribe around “Stealth is overrated”, “5th generation is a myth” etc… Not that I think you are complete stranger to that 😉

So, it’s not my opinion. It’s a matter of facts:

a castel of words and short sighted opinions

Box 35S to be searched next week

One source close to the investigation says only one of the five auto pilot settings — constant magnetic heading (CMH) — would lead to a crash site at 35S, where the ocean current at the time ran in the opposite direction, towards Africa.

Box 35S is close (West) to where French satellite imagery came from (the ones that were not reviewed for years –read here)

French satellite images first seen in March 2014, a week or so after the plane disappeared, showed white objects in this same area, at 35S.
At the time the objects were dismissed as unimportant.
[…]
The drift analysis included retrospective calculations to gauge where the objects might have been in the hours after MH370 disappeared. And sure enough, it was around 35S, the new zone where Ocean Infinity is preparing to search.

EDIT:
Latest update from Ocean Infinity report:
Search to be interrupted at the end of April for crew change (and weather).
Report 042418

EDIT (as of 050118):

Oliver Plunkett, Ocean Infinity’s CEO: As the team head in to port after another six weeks’ hard work, I am pleased to say our technology has performed exceptionally well throughout the search and that we have collected significant amounts of high quality data in which we have full confidence. The results from the highly challenging Broken Ridge feature are particularly impressive.
Whilst it’s disappointing there has been no sign of MH370 in the Australian Transport Safety Bureau search area and further north, there is still some search time remaining. Everyone at Ocean Infinity remains absolutely determined for the remainder of the search.”

Report 043018

Source:
abc news.net.au