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Spherical Flying Machine: the new low cost Japanese military ground and aerial drone (with tilt rotor-like flying capabilities)

October 28, 2011, 8:00 am
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The following video shows a brand new spherical unmanned aerial system (UAS) developed by the Japan Ministry of Defense and presented at the Digital Content Expo, held in Tokyo from Oct. 20 to 22, 2011. Equipped with gyrosensons and wings, it can both hover and fly forward at 60 Km/h because the propeller can either [...]
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F-35: an expensive hard-to-recycle form of garbage?

October 28, 2011, 3:48 pm
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I find the following picture rather funny. It was taken at Seoul Air Show and shows a Lockheed F-35 Lightning II….with a “garbage” sign posted on the barrier in front of the plane. Obviously it’s only a matter of perspective, but I must admit that the signs seems to be an explainatory panel like the [...]
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Italian Air Force Special Operations Forces training

October 31, 2011, 6:00 am
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The 21° Gruppo is one of the most famous squadrons of the Italian Air Force: formerly belonging to the 53° Stormo at Cameri, it has been a member the NATO Tiger Association since 1968. The squadron moved to Gioia del Colle on Mar. 1, 1999, and operated within the 36° Stormo until Mar. 1, 2001, [...]
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Republic of Korea Navy’s warships meet the Italian aircraft carrier Cavour in the Mediterranean Sea

October 31, 2011, 9:12 am
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On Oct. 29, two warships of the Republic of Korea Navy or ROK Navy (ROKN) involved in a training campaign in the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean met with the Italian aircraft carrier Cavour in the Ionian Sea, 60NM from the Italian coasts, in what has been the first Passex (Passage Exercise) between the two [...]
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Special feature: the most interesting pictures of the aircraft involved in Libya air war

October 31, 2011, 3:46 pm
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On Oct. 31, at 23.59 Libyan Time, exactly 7 months after it began, NATO Operation Unified Protector has come to an end. Since the beginning of the Uprising and especially from Mar. 19, the Day 1 of the war (then named Odyssey Dawn), this site has provided an unmatched analysis of the air campaign with [...]
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Israeli Air Force “long range training”: getting ready for Iran?

November 3, 2011, 9:00 am
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As happened in 2010, once again Decimomannu airbase hosted the “Vega” (VEX), a small-scale multinational exercise that this year was attended by 20 aircraft belonging to the Italian, Israeli and German Air Force. Even if the news that Decimomannu was expected to host Israeli Air Force (IAF) fighter planes was widely advertised on websites around [...]
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Italian Navy AV-8B+ Harrier 20th anniversary special colour

November 3, 2011, 11:30 am
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On Oct. 27, 2011, the Marina Militare (Italian Navy) celebrated the 20th anniversary of the GRUPAER (Gruppo Aerei Imbarcati), the squadron flying the Italian AV-8B+ Harriers. During the ceremony held at Grottaglie airbase and attented by the service’s Chief of Staff, Adm. Bruno Branciforte, a “Jump Jet” in a special colour scheme was presented. As [...]
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Mini-Drones, SAMP/T, Storm Shadow and a Lotus “Evora” at the Italian Armed Forces Day

November 7, 2011, 1:34 pm
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The Italian Armed Forces Day exhibition, held each year in Rome inside the Circus Maximus (Circo Massimo), always provides an interesting opportunity for a close look at the most interesting equipments of the four Armed Forces [Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force), Marina Militare (Italian Navy), Esercito Italiano (Italian Army), and Carabinieri (Military Police)], and of the [...]
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Is the F-35 stealth jet so advanced that it can be flown using one hand only? Picture raise question

November 10, 2011, 8:50 am
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Do you remember HOTAS (Hands On Throttle And Stick)? Ok, forget it. As the following  Lockheed Martin picture shows, the F-35B, the (most costly) Short Take Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) version of the Joint Strike Fighter, is not only pretty easy to fly as I witnessed in a ride on board the JSF Cockpit [...]
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Fighter Planes vs Racecars: same tech, same physical laws, same charm

November 11, 2011, 12:25 pm
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Hands On Throttle And Stick, Variable Geometry Intakes, Movable Ailerons and Wings, Boundary Layer Control, etc. are only but few technologies common to Military Aviation and Formula One. Aerodynamics is also the same, even if it is applied in reverse: while airfoils of cars’ surfaces are used to create a downforce needed to push the [...]
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Shindand airbase: Afghan Air Force main training facility

November 14, 2011, 8:00 am
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Shindand (or Shindad), in Western Afghanistan, will be the future Afghan Air Force (AAF) main training facility. Today it is the base used by the young and quite small Afghan Air Force to train its pilots and airport personnel with the help of NATO. Over there, some 50 miles to the south of Herat, another [...]
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Special feature: the most interesting pictures of the aircraft involved in Libya air war (Part 2)

November 15, 2011, 1:30 pm
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After publishing the first Special Feature to celebrate the end of the war in Libya with the most interesting aircraft involved in Operation Unified Protector, many photographers sent me more images depicting some of the planes and helicopter that, for various reasons, visited Luqa airport as a consequence of the Libyan uprising and the subsequent [...]
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Adm. Di Paola is the first military in active service to be named Italy’s Defense Minister

November 16, 2011, 10:13 am
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Former Italian Chief of the Defense Staff, Adm. Giampaolo Di Paola, has been named Italy’s new Defense Minister as part of a Cabinet named on Nov. 16 and led by Mario Monti, the former European commissioner who was appointed as Prime Minister after the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi. Di Paola is one of the nonpolitical [...]
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Video: unidentified flying object trailing a C-17 over the U.S. West Coast

November 16, 2011, 2:11 pm
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Recorded on Nov. 11, 2011 (or if you prefer on 11/11/11) this video shows an unknown object trailing a C-17 Globemaster III over the U.S. West Coast. Although it is obviously a UFO because it is both unidentified and flying, I don’t believe the object has an alien origin. The distance from the aircraft tail, [...]
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Updated: Mysterious Stealth Helicopter photographed in California is a retrofitted obsolete chopper turned into gunship

November 18, 2011, 8:30 am
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Helikopter Hysterie blog’s editor Axel M. Vollmer, who posted my Stealth Black Hawk digital mock up in May,  has recently taken the following pictures of a mysterious Stealth Helicopter sitting out in the open at Torrance Airport / Zamperini field, home of Robinson Helicopters, in California. Although Alex wonders whether he has stumbled upon a [...]
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An interesting combat chopper profile officially cleared for publication: MH-60S “Armed Helo”

November 21, 2011, 8:30 am
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On May 3, 2011, in the aftermath of the Osama Bin Laden raid that disclosed the existence of a stealth helicopter based on the UH-60 “Black Hawk”, I’ve started thinking about the secret chopper used to carry the Navy SEALs to Abbottabad. Which noise reduction technologies does the chopper embed? Which upgrades render it radar-evading?  [...]
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Forget any security concern and welcome Air Force One on Flightradar24!

November 23, 2011, 3:02 pm
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In my article titled Would modern transponders have made the hijacked planes visible to radars on 9-11? about Mode-S and ADS-B usage I wrote: According to an esteem by Flightradar24.com, around 60% of the civil airliners and only a small amount of business jets and military aircraft have an ADS-B transponder. This means that, although you [...]
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The most unusual display team ever: two jet planes and a jet man. Is this the future of military aviation?

November 26, 2011, 2:11 pm
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Yves Rossy is pilot with experience with the Dassault Mirage III and the F-5 Tiger in the Swiss Air Force, and with the B747 for Swissair. However, he is most known for being an aviation inventor rather than a former combat pilot. In fact he is the first person who was able to fly using [...]
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Conformal Fuel Tanks, Storm Shadows, Meteor and IRIS-T missiles: the (really cool) multirole Typhoon offered to the UAE Air Force

November 28, 2011, 8:30 am
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I don’t really know if this version of the Eurofighter Typhoon will ever become a reality. However, chances seems to be increased after Eurofighter received a quite surprising RFP (Request For Proposal) by the UAE Air Force and especially since Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Deputy of the country’s armed forces, said [...]
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Impressive video: behind the scenes of world’s largest aerobatic display team. Flying with the Frecce Tricolori 10-ship formation

November 29, 2011, 9:00 am
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Even while most people like to attend air shows to see aerobatic display teams performances, they usually don’t know what happens inside the formation, which are the main roles of the team, which are the solo radio calls, and which flight instruments are used during the display. Last week I was invited to attend the [...]
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