Caught one of the brand spanking new Ospreys on a test flight out of Amarillo today. I see them quite often - and yet I’m still impressed.
Photo by Steve Douglass

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(CNN) — Flanked by British and French ships, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier moved through the Strait of Hormuz without incident Sunday despite recent threats from Iran.
The U.S. Naval Forces Central Command said in a statement that the Lincoln “completed a regular and routine transit of the strait … to conduct maritime security operations.” [...]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The Air Force has sent into space a satellite that is expected to improve communications with military drones in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Officials say a Delta 4 rocket carried the WGS 4 satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:38 p.m. Thursday.
It’s the fourth in a series [...]

BBC:
Britain has admitted for the first time that it was caught spying when Russia exposed its use of a fake rock in Moscow to conceal electronic equipment.
Russia made the allegations in January 2006, but Britain has not publicly accepted the claims until now.
Jonathan Powell, then Prime Minister Tony Blair’s chief of staff, told a BBC [...]

Robert Johnson
Underscoring its desire to keep U.S. aircraft carriers from the Persian Gulf, a senior Iranian military commander today announced his possible plan to ambush the American fleet.
Chalk this one up to more bluster, or part of a mounting back and forth rhetoric headed nowhere good, either way — Tehran plans to rely on [...]

My good friends.
The new and much improved (edited) version of my book “The Interceptors Club & The Secret of the Black Manta” is now available for download on SMASHWORDS and soon I-tunes!
With that in mind - I need some more good reviews. Maybe you could help?
You may now download it in many formats [...]

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The U.S. has warned Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei through a secret channel of communication that closing the Strait of Hormuz would elicit an American military response, a report says.
United States government officials would not describe how the message was relayed, and whether Iranian leaders responded, the New York Times reports.
But Obama administration officials [...]

(CNN) — A blast in a Tehran neighborhood reportedly killed a nuclear scientist Wednesday morning, the latest in a string of attacks against such scientists in the country that Iran has blamed on Israel.A motorcyclist placed a magnetic bomb under Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan’s Peugeot 405, the country’s IRNA news agency said.
The blast wounded two others [...]

AVIATION WEEK/BILL SWEETMAN
The first clear pictures of the center-line reconnaissance bay on Lockheed Martin’s RQ-170 Sentinel show that the small unmanned aircraft was carrying sensor balls mounted in an internal compartment with specially treated transparent panels—developed for the F-22—when one of them crashed in Iran on Dec. 4.
The new pictures were taken at Kandahar [...]