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RAF Tornados involved in “marathon” seven-hour mission to defend US and Afghan forces in Afghanistan

April 20, 2012, 8:11 am
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RAF Tornado GR4s from 617 “The Dambusters” Squadron, belonging to the 904 Expeditionary Air Wing at Kandahar, have helped to defend US and Afghan forces from an insurgent attack in Helmand province, as part of a marathon mission lasting over seven hours. Two of the RAF Lossiemouth-based “Tonkas”, had already spent 3 hours providing armed [...]
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In Afghanistan, EA-6B Prowlers to be replaced by Beechcraft King Airs capable to knock out cell phones, radios

April 20, 2012, 1:57 pm
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The US Army is using a brand new technology that is installed into its Beechcraft King Air aircraft deployed in the skies of Helmand Province Afghanistan, that can jam and intercept insurgent transmissions. The new device, called communications electronic attack with surveillance and reconnaissance or CEASAR, is a rectangular box that is capable of knocking [...]
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U.S. Air Force goes East: more than two dozen U.S. F-16s in Bulgaria for a month-long exercise with local Migs

April 21, 2012, 7:00 am
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Eight years since President George W. Bush congratulated the prime ministers of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia for becoming NATO members, Bulgaria and United States continue to build upon their partnership. For the third time since 2007 the 31st FW, based at Aviano AB, Italy, is conducting training with the Bulgarian Air Force: [...]
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The ninth minute barrier: Pentagon releases Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 failed test report.

April 21, 2012, 7:23 am
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With a statement released on Apr. 20, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said that Mar. 20 failed test was (unsurprisingly) caused by the extremely high speeds. Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) was expected to travel westward for about 30 minutes before plunging into the ocean near Kwajalein [...]
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Iran claims it has decoded the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 Drone Intel but provides unsubstantiated evidence to prove it.

April 22, 2012, 7:00 am
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Iran has decoded the U.S. stealthy drone intel? What? oh, umm…yeah…sure According to a FARS News Agency article published on Apr. 22, Iran has just finished deconding the intelligence gathering sensors and the internal hard disks of the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 Sentinel drone that was captured by Iran in December 2011. Speaking to FNA, Commander [...]
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40-year old Falklands, Iraq, Libya veteran Sea Dart missile makes its last firing

April 22, 2012, 11:00 am
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Introduced some 40 years ago, Sea Dart missile, a ship lunched anti-aircraft  and anti-missiles with a range of around 80 miles, was fired for the last time on Apr. 13. The test firing, as part of the large Joint Warrior exercise off Scotland’s East Coast, was to demonstrate that the system was still effective after [...]
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What is a Cyber Weapon?

April 22, 2012, 3:42 pm
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We’ve been taking about Militarisation of cyberspace for some time now. This interesting article by Hackmageddon.com provides a model to classify cyber weapons in accordance with four parameters: Precision, Intrusion, Visibility, and Easiness to Implement. Based on these parameters, cyber threats can be compared to smart bombs, handguns, traditional bombs and paintball pistols. Read below [...]
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Latest from Syria: mortars, anti-aircraft vehicles and (maybe) chemical weapons

April 23, 2012, 6:00 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, Social Networks and blogs to update the article he originally posted on his blog while I’ve posted several articles [...]
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[Updated] Video: One of the lowest fly by ever by an F-16

April 23, 2012, 8:40 am
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Update Apr. 23, 2012 21.30 GMT Allegedly recorded in Afghanistan (that, as far as I remember, it’s a landlocked country with no sea…), the following video, uploaded a couple of days ago on Liveleak has received hundreds comments by people either amazed or scared by the one believed to be one of the lowest fly [...]
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Middle East Cyber War: Revenge Of The Drones

April 23, 2012, 2:17 pm
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In the same hours in which I was publishing my post on Cyber Weapons, news agencies all around the world have begun to release (few) details about a new alleged Cyber Attack targeting the Iranian Oil Ministry, the National Iranian Oil Company and several other state-owned businesses. The attack has been confirmed by a spokesman [...]
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M-346 advanced combat trainer first weapon delivery tests

April 24, 2012, 7:27 am
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Taken at Decimomannu airbase last week, by Gian Luca Onnis, the following picture is the only available to date, of an M-346 advanced combat trainer flying with a BRD (Bombs and Rocket Dispencer). Such pod, used by several aircraft types, is used to carry BDU-33 or Mk-106 practice bombs. The BDU-33 are used to “clone” [...]
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Photo: F-35A completes first aerial refueling with inert AIM-9X, JDAM and AMRAAM weapons.

April 24, 2012, 12:07 pm
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On Saturday, Apr. 21, an F-35A Lightning II CTOL (conventional takeoff and landing aircraft) operating from Edwards AFB, achieved the first in-flight refueling mission from an Air Force’s KC-10 while configured with external weapons. Piloted by U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. George Schwartz,  the test aircraft, known as AF-4, flew with two external inert AIM-9X [...]
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Quadrotor killer drone with machine gun and self-destruct module: a deadly weapon of the future

April 24, 2012, 1:28 pm
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First of all let’s have a look at the following increble video. It shows a mini quadrotor drone carrying a machine gun in order to bring remote-controlled death from above. The prototype drone, performs a short-range reconnaissance, neutralizes some unarmed suspects as well as a group of bad guys playing cards, before entering inside a [...]
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The most interesting, dramatic (recent) helicopter pictures from all around the world

April 25, 2012, 7:41 am
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In the image below, a pair of Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters (in an interesting configuration including snow pads) prepare to land at the Alaska Army National Guard Army Aviation Support Facility in Nome, Alaska, on Apr. 17, after supporting exercise Arctic Care 2012 operations in Brevig Mission, Alaska. Arctic Care is [...]
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British Prime Minister to use new RAF tankers for future overseas visits after embarrassing trade trip with Boeing plane

April 25, 2012, 12:49 pm
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The Royal Family and senior UK politicians may consider using one of the RAF’s “Voyager” Airbus A330 tanker aircraft for future foreign trips after a rather embarrassing trade trip to Indonesia caused a huge row. David Cameron and his aides made the trip during the Easter period to drum up trade for European built Airbus [...]
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This is by far the best F-15 video you have ever seen: aerial combat with 2011′s top air-to-air squadron in the USAF.

April 25, 2012, 1:50 pm
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The following video, brought to my attention by a tweet of @shotgunf15e (a Strike Eagle pilot) is by far  the best F-15 footage you can find on the web. According to the information provided by the Vimoeo uploader, it was created to commemorate the 67FS winning the 2011 Raytheon Trophy for outstanding aerial achievement, given [...]
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Exclusive: F-16 gets killed by Typhoon during air combat training in first Eurofighter HUD capture ever.

April 26, 2012, 7:00 am
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The following screenshot comes from a video recorded by the HUD (Head Up Display) of a Eurofighter Typhoon and it is the first (and only) Typhoon HUD capture ever made public. It shows an F-16 in the wrong place at the wrong time: in front of a high maneuvering plane capable to point its nose [...]
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Photo: New Ghana Air Force Casa 295 on delivery flight

April 26, 2012, 12:45 pm
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Africa’s air forces aircraft are quite rare outside their continent. When one of those services owns only few planes, a picture of one of its aircraft has a certain value for aviation spotters and enthusiasts. For this reason I find the following picture, taken by The Aviationist’s contributor Tony Lovelock, on Apr. 24, 2012, extremely [...]
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Mig-29 crashes during Bulgarian – US Air Force exercise: a dramatic photo sequence shows the mishap

April 26, 2012, 1:18 pm
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On Apr. 26, 2012, a Bulgarian MiG-29UB (“11″ white), involved in the Thracian Star 2012 exercise with the U.S. Air Force F-16s from Aviano, crashed into a river between the southern villages of Tsarimir and Golyam Chardak near Plovdiv, in Bulgaria. The two pilots, Maj. Doychinov and Capt. Metodiev, ejected safely from the aircraft, and [...]
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Bring on some bandits! Combat pilots to fight against computer generated aggressors. During actual training flights.

April 27, 2012, 8:30 am
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Even if WVR (Within Visual Range) contests made famous by Top Gun movie, are still the most exciting (and disputed….) part of a combat pilot’s training, future wars’ most likely scenarios are those played on the long distance. BVR (Beyond Visual Range) set ups (1 vs 2, 2vs 2, 2 vs 4, and so on) [...]
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