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Video: F-22 Raptor in action during Red Flag 12-3

March 29, 2012, 2:24 pm
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As reported by Wired’s Danger Room, the F-22 Raptor has finally achieved the full combat readiness. The latest (software) upgrade (Block 3.1) has brought the capability to find and engage ground targets using the Synthetic Aperture Radar mapping and eight GBU-39 SDBs (Small Diameter Bombs) to the troubled stealthy fighter that remained grounded for several [...]
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Azerbaijan to host Israeli Air Force planes in case of attack on Iran?

March 30, 2012, 6:12 am
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Several news agencies have been running a news story, that appeared first on the Foreign Policy website, according to which Israel has secured the use of at least one of four former Soviet era airbases in Azerbaijan. Something that was often speculated in the last weeks. At what first appears an unlikely alliance is anything [...]
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Analysis: This could be the airfield in Azerbaijan used by the Israeli Air Force to attack Iran

March 30, 2012, 2:25 pm
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Even if it is not easy to identify the Azeri airbases the Israeli Air Force would use in case of attack on Iran I thought that it might be interesting to select the one that I would pick if I had to plan a complex strike operation. I consider quite unlikely the possibility that the [...]
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New China’s J-20 fifth generation stealth fighter prototype spotted at Chengdu

March 31, 2012, 2:12 pm
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New images of the Chengdu J-20 fifth generation stealth fighter often appear on the Chinese Internet. Those published in this post were taken in the last few days at Chengdu airport and uploaded on one of the most interesting  Chinese military forums. It looks like a new prototype (fourth, based on the 2004 code of [...]
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Latest updates from Syria: tank shelling on Homs and new video from Hamah airbase

April 1, 2012, 9:04 am
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After publishing the Special feature: all the weapons used by the Syrian regime on Homs, Bjørn Holst Jespersen, a contributor of The Aviationist, has continued to analyse the footage of the Syrian uprising made available on Youtube to update the article he originally posted on his blog that I’ve later edited and updated with the addition [...]
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Video: Algerian Air Force Sukhoi Su-30MKA refueling from Il-78 Midas

April 2, 2012, 2:30 am
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Even if some images have been disclosed in the most authoritative military forums (ACIG, Militaryphotos.net, etc), there are not so many videos about the Algerian Air Force Sukhoi Su-30s on the Internet. One was posted on Youtube on Mar. 30, 2012. It’s a bit long (about 7 minutes) but, from min 04:00 you’ll find extremely [...]
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Night vision footage of U.S. Air Force C-17 dropping U.S. Army personnel onto a Drop Zone

April 2, 2012, 8:00 am
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U.S. Air Force C-17s dropping U.S. Army personnel from Fort Bragg, NC at Holland Drop Zone, Fort Bragg Pope Airfield, N.C. in support of Joint Operations Access Exercise JOAX 12-01. Take off, landing, unloading of vehicles, and airdrops through the green images of the Night Vision Goggles. Related articles 70 Years of Airlift (losangelesnewsone.wordpress.com) Tagged: [...]
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Flying machine becomes reality: PAL-V (Personal Air and Land Vehicle) makes successful maiden flight

April 2, 2012, 12:23 pm
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It was uploaded tp Youtube on Apr. 1 hence, there’s still some chance it is an April Fool, however the video below seems to show a genuine flying car, believed to have successfully conducted test flights in the past two weeks at the Gilze Rijen airport, in the Netherlands. The PAL-V (Personal Air and Land [...]
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Photo: Tornado night take off with full afterburner

April 3, 2012, 6:00 am
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Here’s what a flight of Italian Tornados taking off from Decimomannu airbase for a night mission looks like. All the images were taken by Giampaolo Mallei on Apr. 2, 2012. All images by Giampaolo Mallei       Tagged: Decimomannu, Italian Air Force, Tornado
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“Airborne Laser Operations will be conducted in the U.S. airspace” NOTAM says. The U.S. still pursuing the YAL-1 project goals?

April 3, 2012, 11:30 am
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Brought to my attention by Jared Soergel on The Aviationist Facebook page, the following NOTAM (Notice To Airmen) issued on the FAA website for Indianapolis and Cleveland ARTCC, disseminates the information about Airborne Laser Operations conducted daily between Apr. 03 and 30 in a large area located on the eastern part of the United States, [...]
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New video: Syrian Air Force Mil Mi-17 using rockets

April 3, 2012, 1:08 pm
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Filmed on Apr. 3, 2012, the following video (clearly) shows a Syrian Air Force Mil Mi-17 multirole helicopter using one of its rocket launchers during the uprising in Syria. Related articles First video of a Syrian helicopter gunship attacking rebels near Azaz, northwest of Aleppo (theaviationist.com) Latest updates from Syria: tank shelling on Homs and [...]
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Hand Signals: the next step to controlling UAVs on aircraft carriers

April 4, 2012, 6:00 am
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The environment you find on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is constantly monitored. The organized chaos of launches, recoveries and taxi takes place in a totally unforgiving environment for an unmanned aircraft (and for manned planes too…). According to an interesting article published by Navy Times, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [...]
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B-2 stealth bomber to get 2 billion dollar upgrades. Including a new email system.

April 4, 2012, 12:19 pm
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It was announced recently that the U.S. Air Force is to move forward with a ten year +2 billion USD upgrade to the fleet of 21 B-2s; an upgrade of the communications systems. The B-2 started rolling off Northrop Grumman’s production line during the ’80s and some of the systems are now getting rather long [...]
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Sun n’ Fun 2012 air show

April 4, 2012, 2:49 pm
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Sun ‘n Fun is a “Fly-in” and airshow held each annually at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland, Florida, usually in April. Participants include pilots flying their own homebuilt, vintage, restored ex-military aircraft, as well as some current display team and soloist. Among the others (including the Commemorative Air Force’s B-29 “Fifi”, world’s last flying [...]
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F-16 reaches 4,500 milestone. With a cool desert camo Block 52 model for Morocco.

April 5, 2012, 5:00 am
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With a ceremony for employees, customers, former executives and elected officials, including U.S Rep. Kay Granger and Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price, Lockheed Martin celebrated the 4,500th delivery of the F-16 at its Fort Worth production facility, in Texas, on Apr. 3, 2012. The 4,500th example is a F-16 painted in desert camo and is [...]
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Dambusters test adveniristic helmet for RAF Tornado crews. Most advanced combat planes have similar helmets, except the F-22.

April 5, 2012, 12:16 pm
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According to a press release issued today, BAE Systems has developed a new helmet mounted cueing system for Royal Air Force Tornado GR4 crews. Similarly to American Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System (JHMCS) or the Eurofighter Typhoon’s Helmet Mounted Symbology System (HMSS) the system projects information in front of the pilots eye giving instant information of [...]
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Photo: a dual seater AMX with a weird national roundel….

April 5, 2012, 1:10 pm
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The following picture was taken at Decimomannu airbase by Giovanni Maduli in March 2011. It shows an Italian Air Force AMX-T (belonging to the 32° Stormo, based at Amendola) landing at the end of a training sortie in one of the Sardinian firing ranges. Look at the roundel: it’s a bit faded, to such an [...]
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Lion Effort 2012: the biggest Gripen exercise to date (with South African Air Force planes for the first time in Europe)

April 6, 2012, 5:00 am
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Update Apr. 6, 2012 23.15 GMT Taking place in Sweden from Mar. 27 to Apr. 5, 2012, Lion Effort 2012 was the biggest Gripen exercise ever held. All five Saab Gripen operators took part to the drills, four of which flying their own planes for some 30 JAS-39s and about 300 people attending the exercise. [...]
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Cuban Air Force in action in 2008 movie about the Angolan civil war

April 6, 2012, 11:30 am
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Did you know that Cuba was involved in the Angolan Civil War? Kangamba, a 2008 Cuban movie, recounts one of the most important chapters of Cuba’s large-scale military intervention in the wars in Africa in support of the leftist liberation movement. The story takes place in August 1983 when the Cuban troops intervened to defend [...]
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[Updated] VFA-106 F-18D crashes into apartments at Virginia Beach. Loud bang heard before the crash. Symptom of compressor stall. In the left engine.

April 6, 2012, 2:11 pm
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An F-18D Hornet, belonging to the VFA-106 “Gladiators” crashed on Apr. 6, 2012 at around into 12.15 LT into apartments at Fleming Circle, Virginia Beach causing at least 6 injuries and damaging or destroying five buildings. The exact location of the crash should be a complex located here: 36°51’4.37″N 75°59’34.28″W Both pilots ejected safely, even [...]
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