Rapid Fire 2010-04-21: Rotor Wash Crash
- US Secretary of Defense Gates speaks to the US Naval Academy about vision, integrity, and career.
- Pentagon funds “tactical assistance” for Yemeni special forces brigade to target Al Qaeda.
- Iran: Enemy aircraft keep out, or we’ll fire our S-300, uh, oil drums at you…
- South Korea grounds is Lynx anti-submarine helicopters, following accidents. Bad timing, that.
- Rotor wash brown-out conditions caused CV-22 crash in Afghanistan, despite gear that’s supposed to prevent this. Calling Project Sandblaster…
- Azerbaijan to postpone military exercises with the US military due to US stance on country’s dispute with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Radio Free Euorpe | Associated Press
- The eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull (say that 3 times fast) volcano has diverted US military flights carrying soldiers and supplies between European and Afghanistan as well as training flights in Europe.
- Volcanic dust sucks, if you’re an aircraft engine. Boeing has a full mini-site on the topic, and take a look at what it did to a Finnish F/A-18 Hornet.
- Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expect Lockheed Martin’s 1st quarter 2010 earnings per share to be down despite higher revenue, compared to the 1st quarter 2009. LM announces results Wednesday at 9 am ET.
- Well, at least we know it’s intimidating… Spike MR/LR anti-tank missile demo goes 1 for 2 in Peru with dignitaries present, landing 50m from the audience. Not a good start, considering the missile buy was a split Israeli/ Russian sale.
- Cloud computing raising data security concerns for US military, federal agencies, a Lockheed Martin survey [pdf] finds.
