Aviation
First, there was the so-called Chinese spy balloon, which China insisted was just a civilian weather balloon that had blown off course. President Joe Biden, who initially refused to do anything, had to give orders to shoot it down on Feb 4 after being mocked and ridiculed by fellow Democrats and Republican as a weak […]
... written on Feb 15 2023Days after shooting down of a high altitude Chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina, the U.S. military had scrambled an F-22 fighter jet to shoot down a second “high altitude object” in American airspace – this time off the coast of Alaska on Friday (Feb 10). It is called an object because […]
... written on Feb 11 2023Artemis I mission to orbit the moon has failed again. For the second time this week, NASA was forced to cancel the launch on Saturday (Sept 3) after another fuel leak. The rocket was supposed to go off on Monday, but was postponed to Saturay due to liquid hydrogen leaks. NASA engineers had tried to […]
... written on Sep 04 2022Biden currently has enough on his plate. From high gas price to inflation and from record low approval rating to losing the Ukraine war, the president has no appetite for more problems. The last thing the Commander-in-Chief wants is another big war. Heck, the U.S. is reluctant to fight even a war with Russia, let […]
... written on Jul 25 2022China’s third aircraft carrier was supposed to be launched on April 23 to mark this year’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Day. However, it was delayed by over two months due to the Covid-19 outbreak in Shanghai. Larger than the previous two carriers, the third aircraft carrier – Type 003 – subsequently projected to be […]
... written on Jun 07 2022After complaints from the Canadian Air Force, now Australia has similarly complained how a pilot of Chinese fighter jet carrying out a dangerous manoeuvre near one of its spy aircraft over the South China Sea. Only this time, the Chinese pilot did not show his middle finger. But it was dangerous enough for Australia to […]
... written on Jun 05 2022Not many realize that Royal Canadian Air Force regularly patrols near North Korea as part of UN Security Council sanctions against Pyongyang. Like pilots from the U.S., U.K., Japan, Germany, France, Australia and New Zealand, the Canadian air force is involved in missions to detect violations of sanctions such as transfer of banned goods to […]
... written on Jun 02 2022President Biden has decided to send yet another round of military weapon package worth a staggering US$800 million to Ukraine. Since Russia’s invasion two months ago, the United States has splashed US$3.4 billion in weapons. In fact, the latest military aid is the eighth installment, and we haven’t talked about similar assistance from the European […]
... written on Apr 24 2022About a week since the U.S. Navy embarrassingly lost an F-35C Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter in the South China Sea, all the efforts to recover the jet is still ongoing. The most advanced jet, which crashed into the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson on January 24 and then fell into the water, […]
... written on Feb 02 2022XAG (formerly known as XAircraft), a Guangzhou-based manufacturer of agricultural drones, is sending robots and drones to rice, wheat and cotton fields to do something unimaginable by aging farmers – automating seeding, pesticide spraying and weather monitoring. Last month, it launched V40 and P40 Agricultural Drone that can conduct mapping, spraying, and broadcast on the […]
... written on Dec 15 2021
