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Hottest civilian jobs for airmen — this week’s Air Force Times

By Jeff Schogol on April 8, 2013 Air Force, UAV, Uncategorized

If you’re preparing to enter the private sector, then you want to check out this week’s cover story about which jobs defense firms are looking for and how you can get them. We provide a list of the AFSCs with transferable skills in the civilian world and what degrees and certifications you need to land a job at one of the 10 companies we spoke to. Also in this week’s edition: A New York City-based fashion designer has come out with a hoodie and other clothing that will help you avoid detection from unmanned aircraft. It’s the latest thing if…

Designer creates “anti-drone” fashion

By Oriana Pawlyk on April 4, 2013 UAV

Want to stay incognito from drones? There’s a hoodie for that. New York City-based fashion designer Adam Harvey has created a “Stealth Wear” collection, which includes hoodies, hijabs and burqas made with “metalized fibers that reflect heat, thus evading thermal imaging technology used by drones,” the Huffington Post reported. “Collectively, Stealth Wear is a vision for fashion that addresses the rise of surveillance, the power of those who surveil, and the growing need to exert control over what we are slowly losing, our privacy,” Harvey’s website says. In an interview with The Guardian, Harvey explained: “I’m not trying to make…

Remembering the U-2’s long history

By Jill Laster on February 14, 2012 Air Force, UAV

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pxCqUcYT_c[/youtube] Call me nerdy, but all this budget news about the U-2 is making me think about the plane’s storied past – specifically the 1960 incident in which an American pilot operating a CIA U-2 was shot down while conducting a recon mission over the Soviet Union. The incident strained an already tense relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, happening just two weeks before a planned East-West summit in Paris. Powers was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison during what is largely considered in the West to be a show trial. However, he ended up serving…

Taiwanese animation: U.S. drone shot down in Iran

By David Larter on December 5, 2011 Afghanistan, Airframes, Iran, Next Media Animation, UAV, Video

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7T814ysuUk[/youtube] The good people at Next Media Animation are always quick on the draw when it comes to the latest news out of DoD. Here is their take of the recent downing of an Air Force Sentinel drone over Iran. The military says it’s unclear how the drone crashed in Iran. The Iranians claimed to have shot the stealthy drone out of the sky.

Wired: Virus strikes U.S. drone fleet

By Brian Everstine on October 7, 2011 UAV

A computer virus has infected the American fleet of Predator and Reaper unmanned aircraft, Wired’s Danger Room reported today. Check back here for more updates.

Rest in peace, manned aircraft

By David Larter on August 16, 2011 Air Force, UAV, Uncategorized

It’s been a good 97-year run but it’s time to dismantle the the fighter fleet and start pumping money into Predators and Global Hawks. This according to Michael O’Hanlon, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. It’s game over. In an fascinating article previewing the inevitable downturn in the defense industry as the government cuts spending, AP’s Jonathan Fahey writes an obituary for the gangbusters military spending spree we’ve been on since 9/11. In it, O’Hanlon says the industry is just waiting for the hammer to drop on Joint Strike Fighter and all future manned aircraft. During wartime, when dollars…

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