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12 Feb 2016, 1:26 pm by Alex R. McQuade
The United States and Russia have announced agreement on a ceasefire in Syria set take effect next week. [read post]
25 Nov 2018, 8:22 pm
"Miscarriages of justiceA year ago, South Korean student Kim Yun-soung was facing the death penalty on a charge of drug trafficking after being found with 219 grams of marijuana in a house south of Kuala Lumpur.But the aircraft engineering student was freed after the main witness - the arresting officer - admitted lying about who was in the house at the time of the raid.The police officer insisted in court there had been no one else at the scene of the arrest, but CCTV footage obtained… [read post]
11 May 2017, 10:46 am by Rachel Bercovitz
The Diplomat reports that the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, scheduled to replace the USS Carl Vinson near the Korean Peninsula, left its home port at Yokosuka naval base in Japan on May 8 to begin sea trials­—the final phase of its maintenance period. [read post]
3 Feb 2016, 4:30 am
  On Feb 3, 1959, a small aircraft carrying rock and roll legends Buddy Holly (“Everyday,” ”It’s So Easy,” “Peggy Sue,” and a whole lot of other, crucial early rock and roll tunes), Ritchie Valens (“La Bamba,” “Come On, Let’s Go”), and J.P. [read post]
7 Mar 2023, 9:00 pm by Eleonora Rosati
Rain, ice, sleet and dirt will always obstruct vision through windshields on cars, trains, boats and aircraft. [read post]
9 Aug 2016, 1:06 pm by Rishabh Bhandari
The Center for Strategic and International Studies analyzed recent satellite photographs to conclude that Beijing appears to be building reinforced aircraft hangars large enough to accommodate any plane in the Chinese Air Force. [read post]
27 Oct 2016, 12:22 pm by Zachary Burdette
Russian officials claimed today that neither Russian nor Syrian aircraft have attacked Aleppo for nine days, Reuters notes. [read post]
18 Oct 2015, 7:37 am by Carol R. Saivetz
There have already been a few close calls between U.S. and Russian aircraft over Syria. [read post]
19 Nov 2018, 7:32 am by Paul Cassell
It is also far in excess of the sentence imposed for such serious crimes as aircraft hijacking, second degree murder, espionage, kidnapping, aggravated assault, and rape. [read post]
18 May 2020, 5:57 am by Judd Devermont, Leanne Erdberg Steadman
In response to Cyclone Idai in 2019, U.S. military aircraft helped deliver food and other humanitarian assistance to communities in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe just days after the storm submerged hundreds of thousands of miles of land. [read post]
30 Nov 2018, 12:01 pm by Robert D. Williams
As Greg Allen and Taniel Chan have noted, when the U.S. government set out to regulate the aerospace industry after World War II, the government was by far the largest customer for aircraft and funded most aerospace research and development. [read post]
10 Feb 2017, 10:20 am by Jordan Brunner
Navy P-3 plane and a Chinese military aircraft came dangerously close to each other over the South China Sea yesterday. [read post]
26 Oct 2016, 12:09 pm by Zachary Burdette, Quinta Jurecic
Russian and Syrian aircraft have maintained pressure on rebels across Syria, the Post reports. [read post]
19 Jun 2019, 4:32 am by Ashley Deeks
The fact that the United States did not forcibly respond in 2012 does not resolve the legal question of whether it lawfully could have acted then, but it does suggest that the United States may be more cautious in treating the shootdown of a military drone as triggering a right of self-defense than it would if Iran shot down a piloted aircraft. [read post]
20 Oct 2019, 7:00 am by Carter Malkasian
He or she may search for different ways to address it, such as with a lighter footprint or by conducting operations from “offshore,” out of Pakistan or Qatar, or off an aircraft carrier, but the basic interest remains the same. [read post]
10 Aug 2016, 11:36 am by Rishabh Bhandari, Caitlin Gilligan
Admiral Scott Swift, the commander of the U.S. naval forces in the Pacific, said Beijing had taken several destabilizing steps in the South China Sea—including conducting air patrols, announcing joint drills there with Russia, and installing hangars for military aircrafts on its artificial islands—since a tribunal ruling against China’s maritime claims in July and in favor of the Philippines. [read post]
14 Oct 2016, 1:06 pm by Zachary Burdette, Quinta Jurecic
Yet arming the rebels with portable air defense systems would pose risks to Western commercial aircraft if the weapons fell into the hands of extremists. [read post]
17 Nov 2015, 1:51 pm by Elina Saxena
While Russia and France are not pursuing coordinated operations, the Kremlin acknowledged that "Putin spoke to Hollande by telephone and had ordered the Russian navy to establish contact with a French naval force heading to the eastern Mediterranean, led by an aircraft carrier, and to treat them as allies. [read post]
28 Sep 2016, 11:49 am by Zachary Burdette, Quinta Jurecic
The investigators found that a Russian-made Buk surface-to-air system, which was “brought in from the Russian Federation territory and then returned to the Russian Federation afterwards,” destroyed the aircraft. [read post]