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Using the UAV’s electro-optical/infrared payload, ISTAR missions have included identifying Taliban repeater stations, following insurgents from a contact back to their hideout and flying low over enemy combatants, causing them to retreat. Hermes air vehicles have flown 3,000h in Iraq and 4,000h in Afghanistan since last year, with the army saying there have been no [...]

I heard a small jet approaching, and at first I thought it was a T38 from Whiteman. As it passed right over me, I made it out to be an Albatross, dark in color. Not sure if it would be the same one, but there’s one based here at KSEE, usually see him up every [...]

On Wednesday, the Russian foreign ministry ratcheted up the pressure on Georgia by establishing legal ties with the two republics, which have been quasi-independent entities since the early 1990s. Georgia’s leaders are predictably apoplectic over what they see as a Russian annexation of one third of their territory. Putin claims he wants to take steps [...]