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Maretta ..... "Editorial: JSF Program Has Some Explaining To Do" ..... http://aviationweek.com/defense/editorial-jsf-program-has-some-explaining-do "Pratt & Whitney Offers Some F135 Explaining" ..... http://aviationweek.com/defense/pratt-whitney-offers-some-f135-explaining Inoltre ..... "F-35 Blade Microcracking Began Three Weeks Prior To Engine Fire" ..... http://aviationweek.com/defense/f-35-blade-microcracking-began-three-weeks-prior-engine-fire "F-35 Fire: In Search Of A Solution" ..... http://aviationweek.com/defense/f-35-fire-search-solution

Ricerche tuttora senza risultati .... pertanto .... diminuzione delle ricerche aeree ed ampliamento dell'area di quelle subacquee .... Fonte .... "Australian PM announces major shift in MH370 search" .... http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/australian-pm-announces-major-shift-in-mh370-search-398628/ Prime Minister Tony Abbott addresses the media with chief of the Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre, Air Chief Marshall Angus Houston. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen Intanto .... Bluefin-21 sta effettuando la 16^ missione .... http://www.jacc.gov.au/media/releases/2014/april/mr040.aspx

Fuochi artificiali .... nucleari .... Fonte .... "North Korea Might Explode Many Nukes at Once - Pyongyang could be preparing for its first salvo test" .... https://medium.com/war-is-boring/50c34d14404 Tutti insieme .... in attesa dei botti ....

Link aggiornato per il post precedente .... "Introducing the Ballistic Missile Defense Ship" .... http://aviationweek.com/blog/introducing-ballistic-missile-defense-ship Intanto .... Fonte .... "U.S. Deploys First SM-3 Block IB Missile" .... http://news.usni.org/2014/04/23/u-s-deploys-first

Lievitazione .... lo F-35 non è solo .... Fonte .... "Zumwalt Class Costs Have Risen $2 Billion in Last Five Years" .... http://news.usni.org/2014/04/24/7475

L'avvistamento di Wichita .... .... sul sito dell'USNI .... un'analisi di Dave Majumdar (già collaboratore di 'Flight International') .... "Analysis: Mystery Plane Seen Over Kansas Likely U.S. Military Aircraft" .... http://news.usni.org/2014/04/23/analysis-mystery-plane-seen-kansas-likely-u-s-military-aircraft Molte domande e .... ovviamente .... molte bocche cucite .... salvo questa ....

E .... provate a indovinare chi poteva mancare in questa polemica .... "McCain Asks Pentagon IG to Investigate Air Force EELV Decision" .... http://aviationweek.com/blog/mccain-asks-pentagon-ig-investigate-air-force-eelv-decision

Qualche novità .... Dalla Gran Bretagna .... "ATLAS Update" .... http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/atlas-update-25042014 Dalla Francia .... "Bientôt un troisième A400M Atlas pour l'armée de l'Air" .... http://www.air-cosmos.com/2014/04/25/21985-bientot-un-troisieme-a400m-atlas-pour-l-armee-de-l-air

Cacciatori di 'Orsi' .... Fonte .... "RAF Typhoons follow the Bear" .... http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2014/04/raf-typhoons-follow-bear/ La fonte originale .... "Defending the Air" .... http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/defending-the-air-25042014

Sarà .... tanto più che ora le FFAA hanno trovato un Santo protettore .... Fonte .... ' Spese militari, Napolitano: "Sì a rigore, ma senza decisioni sommarie" ' .... http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2014/04/25/news/spese_militari_napolitano_s_a_rigore_ma_senza_decisioni_sommarie-84439665/

Apocalypse now .... in Russian style ....

Modernizzazione radicale .... Fonte .... "MiG, Aviadvigatel Confirm MiG-31 Development" .... http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/ain-defense-perspective/2014-04-24/mig-aviadvigatel-confirm-mig-31-development

Il dimostratore 'a piena configurazione' dello MC-27J ha effettuato il primo volo a Torino .... Fonte .... "Fully Configured MC-27J Multi-Mission Tactical Transport Aircraft Completes First Flight" .... http://www.aviationworldnews.com/news/fully-configured-mc-27j-multi-mission-tactical-transport-aircraft-completes-first-flight-38211

Infatti .... AW&ST .... nottetempo .... ha ristrutturato il suo sito .... Ora devo vedere di orientarmi in quello nuovo .... P.S. .... non solo .... come se non bastasse .... sono saltati anche tutti i vecchi links con AW&ST ....

Elon Musk, fondatore di SpaceX, tiene un'improvvisata conferenza stampa per annunciare di avere sporto denuncia nei confronti dell'Air Force .... nel tentativo di rompere il monopolio sino ad ora detenuto da ULA sui contratti relativi ai vettori militari .... Fonte .... "Musk Files Suit To Overturn EELV Award" .... http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_04_25_2014_p0-680747.xml Inoltre .... "SpaceX Suing to Stop EELV Block Buy" .... http://innerspace.net/eelv/spacex-suing-to-stop-eelv-block-buy/ "SpaceX files suit over EELV block buy contract" .... http://www.spacepolitics.com/2014/04/25/spacex-files-suit-over-eelv-block-buy-contract/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spacex-files-suit-over-eelv-block-buy-contract

SpaceX .... si punta al completo recupero del primo stadio del vettore in vista di successivo riutilizzo .... Fonte .... "SpaceX Plans For Multiple Reusable Booster Tests" .... http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_04_28_2014_p25-680195.xml "SpaceX Successfully Soft-Landed Booster Rocket in the Atlantic" .... http://mashable.com/2014/04/25/elon-musk-spacex-booster-stage-atlantic/ Nelle immagini sono visibili, alla base del primo stadio, le 'gambe' estraibili destinate a consentire l'atterraggio verticale sul terreno ....

La Marina USA ordina altri due dimostratori CH-53K .... "Navy orders two more CH-53K demonstration test aircraft" .... http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/navy-orders-two-more-ch-53k-demonstration-test-aircraft-398603/

Segnerà la fine per il C-130? ....

Consegnato il primo BUFF 'intelligente' .... Fonte .... il "Daily Report" dell'AFA ....

Messier 5 .... un ammasso globulare di più di 100.000 stelle ....

Approximately 150 U.S. Army soldiers from the 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Airborne, out of Vicenza, Italy, depart from Aviano Air Base, Italy, April 23, 2014, for Poland, on two U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. R.J. Biermann) Inoltre .... Fonte .... il "Daily Report" dell'AFA ....

F-35B .... cosa ne pensano i piloti .... quelli nuovi .... non i collaudatori .... Fonte .... "Pilot reaction to flying the F-35B" .... http://www.aviationweek.com/Blogs.aspx?plckBlogId=Blog:27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckPostId=Blog:27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post:4b23cf24-bf61-4e4d-b810-241c65847974

In Polonia anche quattro caccia Rafale francesi .... "Quatre Rafale français en Pologne la semaine prochaine" .... http://www.air-cosmos.com/2014/04/24/21961-quatre-rafale-francais-en-pologne-la-semaine-prochaine "France Sends Rafale Combat Jets to Poland" .... http://www.aviationweek.com/Blogs.aspx?plckBlogId=Blog:27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3a6ce7e217-41c1-48a1-93b3-53d4abac6f8a

Le ipotesi di Air & Cosmos sull'ultimo avvistamento .... "L'énigmatique aile volante du Kansas" .... http://www.air-cosmos.com/2014/04/23/21926-l-enigmatique-aile-volante-du-kansas

Se lo fa anche il Perù .... il satellite spia .... e sarà lanciato da un vettore Vega .... Fonte .... "Airbus DS construira le satellite d'observation péruvien" .... http://www.air-cosmos.com/2014/04/24/21971-airbus-ds-construira-le-satellite-d-observation-peruvien Inoltre .... "France, Peru Sign Bilateral Agreement for Airbus Spy Satellite" .... http://www.aviationweek.com/Blogs.aspx?plckBlogId=Blog:04ce340e-4b63-4d23-9695-d49ab661f385&plckPostId=Blog%3a04ce340e-4b63-4d23-9695-d49ab661f385Post%3a302db015-5f8c-45c2-8609-a678a47a79d2 "Gobierno firma contrato con Francia para adquirir primer satélite peruano" .... http://www.andina.com.pe/agencia/noticia-gobierno-firma-contrato-francia-para-adquirir-primer-sat-503339.aspx#.U1oJaz-KCM8