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2021/05/14 10:45 Taiwanese F-16 taking off. Taiwanese F-16 taking off. (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Air Force Command declined to comment on reports Thursday (May 13) that two Taiwan F-16s are making their way back to Taiwan after being upgraded to the Block 70 variant. An Instagram aviation aficionado, Aeros808, posted a photo Thursday (May 13) showing two F-16s taking off at Daniel. K. Inoue International Airport in Honolulu, Hawaii. One of the aircraft displayed the serial number 6621, which is a Taiwanese military...

Ransomware shutdown of East Coast pipeline echos ‘failure of imagination’ before 9/11 attacks, warns cyberspace commission Jamie McIntyre © Provided by Washington Examiner DOD header 2020 ‘DISAPPOINTED, THOUGH UNSURPRISED’: Members of a congressionally chartered commission, charged with developing a bipartisan strategy to defend the nation against “cyberattacks of significant consequences,” say the ransomware attack that forced the shutdown of a vital U.S. pipeline over the weekend should serve as a wake-up call to both private companies and the nation as a whol...

Colombia Accuses Russia of Invading Its Airspace 21 Apr 2021 The government of Colombia issued a formal note of protest to Russia’s ambassador to Colombia, Nikolai Tavdumadze, on Monday after a Russian aircraft allegedly violated Colombia’s airspace. “On behalf of the government [of Colombia], the Foreign Ministry sent an official note to the Russian Ambassador to Bogota, in which it expressed strong protest over the situation with a Russian plane that violated Colombia’s airspace on April 19,” Colombian Foreign Minister Claudia Blum said in a statement on April 19. “Ambassador T...

Havelsan to Hand Over F-16 Simulators to Turkish Military in 2021 Our Bureau 573 Havelsan's F-16 Maintenance Training Simulator (via Turkish state media) Turkey’s Havelsan will deliver F-16 Virtual Maintenance Training Simulators to the Air Forces Command later this year. Havelsan Jet Aircraft Systems Program Manager Koray Uyar had told state-run Anadolu Agency last month that they are trying to sell the systems “to many F-16 users around the world.” The company official said that they also examined and reviewed other maintenance training simulators around the world and that “there...

183rd Wing Commander Chosen as Director of Logistics for Air Guard The Commander of the 183rd Wing, Col. Donald "DK" Carpenter, who rose through the enlisted ranks and then through the officer ranks as a 'problem solver,' will now put his skills to work at the national level as the new Director of Logistics, Engineering, and Force Protection for the Air National Guard. With this selection, Carpenter will be promoted to brigadier general. “DK has been put in positions throughout his career where problems needed to be solved or processes needed to be improved and he has always left those jobs...