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January 31, 2025

 

The skies over Washington D.C., where an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with a passenger airliner Wednesday night, killing 67, is the most tightly controlled and surveilled airspace open to civilian air traffic in the United States. As such, it can be a hazardous place to be airborne, particularly at night, when bedrock principles of good airmanship can fall by the wayside and helicopter and air traffic control personnel can get overwhelmed, current and former military helicopter pilots told TWZ Thursday.  Read the complete analysis from them here.   -- Kyle Gunn The War Zone   Must Read Articles     Our Best Look Yet At Britain’s New Dreadnought Class Ballistic Missile Submarine Design   A highly streamlined hull, x-shaped stern, pumpjet propulsion, and conformal missile carriage are all features of the Royal Navy’s forthcoming Dreadnought class SSBN.         Here’s What Air Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems Can And Can’t Do   While the Traffic Collision Avoidance System, or TCAS, was introduced as a backup to help prevent mid-air collisions, it has its limitations.         Carrier Air Wing’s Key Priorities To Win In Future Pacific Fight Laid Out By Navy   MQ-25 tanker drones, longer-range weapons, new advanced aircraft, and better networks are central to the Navy's carrier airpower vision.         Ukraine Discloses New Method To Defeat Russian Fiber-Optic-Controlled FPV Drones   One Ukrainian military drone unit is using mobile radars to track enemy FPV drones which are then destroyed by friendly ones.         Destroyer Has Become First U.S. Navy Ship To Deploy Artificial Intelligence System   The destroyer USS Fitzgerald embarked an AI-enabled monitoring system that helps the crew spot maintenance needs before they metastasize into bigger problems.         From the Archive     This F-22 Raptor Wing Tank Storage Facility Looks Like A Science Fiction Movie Set   Very few things are simple in the fighter aircraft business, including storing and moving around giant external fuel tanks..         Hot Shots     Air Force Capt. Russell Ellis flies a routine tanker mission over the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility as St. Elmo's Fire, a weather phenomenon observable in atmospheric electric fields, flashes across the window, Jan. 22, 2025.     Marines observe an M853A1 illumination round during a training exercise at Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii, Jan. 17, 2025.     A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle conducts a routine combat air patrol in support of Operation Inherent Resolve over the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, Jan. 29, 2025.