Author: Michael

The Iran Conflict Could Mean China’s H-20 Stealth Bomber Heads to the Skies Faster 
The ongoing campaign against Iran has once again demonstrated how modern wars increasingly begin in the air, and often with stealth aircraft leading the way.

In recent strikes, U.S. forces used long-range bombers and advanced fighter aircraft to attack Iranian military infrastructure, including ballistic missile sites and other hardened targets. More than 2,000 targets were struck in the first 100 hours of the campaign, according to U.S. Central Command.

H-20 Bomber Mock Up.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a near-miss incident in Southern California between a National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and a commercial airline flight this week.
On the evening of Tuesday, March 24, a United Airlines 737 flight was approaching John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California. As it was descending around roughly 2,000 feet, the California Army National Guard UH-60M Black Hawk passed in front of its path, according to flight data from Flightradar24. The two aircraft came within 525 feet vertical and 1,422 feet lateral from each other.

Game. Set.

The A-10 Warthog Looked Like It Was Headed for Retirement. Then The Iran War Started
The A-10 Warthog has been revered for generations by grateful ground forces who credit the famous “flying tank” for saving them from enemy fire.

And, to be honest, we can’t get enough of the A-10. As you can see, we visited the A-10 Warthog on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force just last year.

Although the future of the combat-tested aircraft has been debated for years, there is little question about its combat performance.

Too Big, Too Easy to Kill: Why the U.S. Navy Abandoned Sky Aircaft Carriers
America’s military development over the last century has been both a tale of amazing advances and a story of “what ifs.” One of those “what if” stories comes in the form of a 785-foot-long, helium-filled dirigible airship. Billed by many as a “flying aircraft carrier,” the United States Navy was attempting to fuse airpower with its power projection platforms.

Inside the “Airborne Carrier” Concept 
Ultimately, the Navy would build aircraft carriers to achieve this goal.

🚨GOAL OF THE TOURNAMENT?

A B-52 Bomber Accident Turned Into a Nuclear Crisis 
The theme of lost, missing, or stolen weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)—chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons—has unsurprisingly been the subject of many fictional thrillers. And when it includes a B-52 bomber, you know it can’t be good, as we will get to in a second.

During the Cold War, you had bestselling novels from authors like the late great Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy (both gone but not forgotten), e.g., “Vixen 03” by the former and “The Sum of All Fears” by the latter.

The two are U.S. Citizens – but may be dual citizens. The brother has fled to China. The mother is now detained and being processed for deportation, being found to be an Illegal Alien.

An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was placed near the Visitor Center of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida.
A very bizarre set of circumstances. Were the brother and sister operating on behalf of China? Were they Iranian sleeper agents? Were they triggered wokesters?
MacDill hosts two major commands, U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command.

A recent claim circulated in Chinese state-linked media that a Chengdu J-20 “Mighty Dragon” stealth fighter transited key airspace undetected sparked new debates about China’s growing fifth-generation combat aircraft capabilities and what it could mean for regional defense planners.

The report, which referenced operations over the Tsushima Strait and near Taiwan, attracted Western commentary that focused primarily on the aircraft’s impressive speed – but that may not be the most important part of this story.

A Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force J-10C lightweight fighter has engaged an aircraft from an unnamed foreign country, after being locked onto by the aircraft’s radar. Shi Luquan, a pilot from an aviation brigade under the PLA Air Force Central Theatre Command, is reported to have quickly responded to radar illumination, recalling: “This is a kind of provocation. If he were friendly, he wouldn’t turn on the radar.