Quantcast
Channel: The Aviationist
Viewing all 2822 articles
Browse latest View live
↧

Obama Administration to fund additional Israeli Iron Dome mobile air defense systems

May 15, 2012, 6:00 am
$
0
0
According to an article published by the Jerusalem Post on May 13, the Israeli Defense minister Ehud Barak and U.S. counterpart Leon Panetta will announce (in a press conference to be held after meeting scheduled on May 17) a deal worth $680 in aid to allow Israel to purchase a further 3-4 Iron Dome mobile [...]
↧
Search

European Helicopters make first land attack on Somali Pirates

May 15, 2012, 7:00 am
$
0
0
The Daily Telegraph newspaper has run a report stating that at dawn on Tuesday May 15 several European helicopters flew along the Somalian coast line to attack and destroy numerous pirate skiffs that were dragged above the high tide line. According to the article troops were not landed from the anti-piracy helicopters indicating that they [...]
↧
↧

Another foam party! This time at Charleston AFB. Maybe USAF should check its fire suppression systems

May 15, 2012, 9:07 am
$
0
0
When I published the picture about the F-15, F-16 and A-10 submerged by foam at Eglin AFB, Florida, I thought that this kind of incident was quite rare. I was wrong. First of all, a visitor recounted that something like that happened with a C-135 VIP transport at Hickam AFB many years ago. They put [...]
↧

Photo Report: Italian Army Aviation celebrates its anniversary with a tactical event involving heavy lifter, attack and special ops choppers

May 15, 2012, 12:00 pm
$
0
0
On May 10, the Italian Army celebrated the 61st anniversary of the service’s Aviation at Viterbo airfield, northwest of Rome, with an interesting tactical event and final flypast which saw the participation of CH-47, NH-90, AB-412, AB-205, A-129 choppers,  some of which are periodically deployed to Afghanistan in support of ISAF, as well as P-180 [...]
↧

Another chapter of the “USAF Hangar Foam Party” saga.

May 16, 2012, 6:00 am
$
0
0
After the F-15, F-16 and A-10 submerged by foam at Eglin AFB, Florida in 2009, and the C-17 at Charleston AFB, South Carolina, last year, here below you can find some pictures of another Air Force’s fire suppression system filling a hangar with foam I received from a member of the 457th Fighter Squadron “Spads”. [...]
↧
↧

Photo evidence: Maiden flight for the second China’s J-20 stealth fighter prototype

May 16, 2012, 8:00 am
$
0
0
After a series of high-speed taxi tests with the nosewheel off the ground and subsequent use of the drag chute, here are the first images published on the Chinese forums showing the second J-20 stealth fighter prototype performing its first flight at Chengdu. Image credit: http://club.mil.news.sina.com.cn/ Related articles [Updated] Photo: Second China’s J-20 stealth fighter [...]
↧

Photo: These could be the only F-22 stealth planes not choking their pilots

May 16, 2012, 2:37 pm
$
0
0
Just posted by U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet on their Flickr photostream, the following image shows the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) as it arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) for its final port visit in Hawaii before returning to its homeport in San Diego following a six-month WestPac (Western Pacific) and [...]
↧

Video: Armed MQ-1 Predator drone quietly flying at low altitude over Elgin, Illinois

May 16, 2012, 3:34 pm
$
0
0
Filmed in Elgin, Illinois about 40 miles from Chicago, the following video (uploaded to Youtube on May 13) shows what seems to be an MQ-1 Predator drone. Armed with AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missiles. Noteworthy the drone is flying quite low (maybe to remain in visual contact with the ground below the clouds). Even if someone [...]
↧
Search

Langley’s F-22 pilot oxygen emergency during Red Flag caught on audio tape

May 17, 2012, 6:00 am
$
0
0
The F-22 Raptor was among the players of the recent Red Flag 12-3 exercise at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Belonging to the 27th FS from Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, the planes did not feature the famous Increment 3.1 that gives the stealthy fighters the capability to use air-to-surface weapons, and could only play the [...]
↧
↧

Video: First flight of China’s second J-20 Mighty Dragon prototype

May 17, 2012, 1:10 pm
$
0
0
After the images appeared on the Chinese Internet few hours after the aircraft had landed, a video showing the China’s second J-20 stealth fighter prototype performing its first flight at Chengdu on May 16, 2012 has just been uploaded to Youtube. Soundtrack aside, the video is enjoyable as it gives the opportunity to see the [...]
↧

Stealth Yanshuf: the Israeli top secret radar-evading chopper used to drop spies in Iran

May 17, 2012, 2:35 pm
$
0
0
According to F. Michael Maloof, a former Pentagon senior policy analyst the Israeli Air Force is equipped with the same Stealth Black Hawk helicopter used by the U.S. Navy SEALs to kill Osama Bin Laden last year. Believed to be an exclusive U.S. “black project”, the radar-evading chopper (most probably a quiet one, rather than [...]
↧

“You are cleared to the scrap yard”: Italy’s leased combat-proven F-16s returned to the U.S. to be cockooned again.

May 18, 2012, 8:40 am
$
0
0
Updated May 18, 2012 17.00 GMT On May 8, eight of the remaining U.S. F-16 fighter jets leased by the Italian Air Force to strengthen Italy’s air defense until the full maturity of the Eurofighter Typhoon made a stopover at Lajes Field, Azores, on their way back to the U.S. The aircraft had departed from [...]
↧

Stealth Black Hawks! But it’s only another Hangar Foam Party.

May 18, 2012, 12:40 pm
$
0
0
After publishing the articles about Eglin Air Force Base, Charleston AFB and Portland ANGB with images showing several hangars filled with foam after fire suppression systems accidentally went off at various U.S. bases, a reader of my blog sent me the following photographs. Thet show the hangar floor and eight helicopters covered with 7 feet [...]
↧
↧

Apocalypse now-like scene: 10 AH-64 Apache and 6 UH-60 Black Hawk choppers arrive at Joint Base Lewis-McChord

May 18, 2012, 1:40 pm
$
0
0
Something you don’t see every day: ten AH-64 Apache and six UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters belonging to the 1st Battalion, 229th Aviation Regiment, based at Fort Hood, Texas, arrive at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, where the unit is relocating, on May 11. The 1-229th Avn. Regt. is an attack reconnaissance battalion. The video needs only a [...]
↧

Infographic: Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Flypast

May 18, 2012, 5:30 pm
$
0
0
On Saturday May 19, Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her first 60 years as monarch. Here are the graphics that explain how the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, a flypast of over 80 aircraft (more than those taking part to the previous editions) belonging to the British air arms, will take place. Source: Royal Air Force Two Temporary [...]
↧
Search

Largest U.S. exercise in Middle East furtively taking place in Jordan. Involving 19 countries and 12,000 military

May 19, 2012, 7:00 am
$
0
0
Almost ignored by some media outlets, a major strategic theater cooperation exercise including 19 countries and more than 12,000 participants is currently taking place in Jordan. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) says that the Eager Lion 2012 is “the largest annual exercise in the Central Command area of operations” whose is aim is “to strengthen military-to-military [...]
↧

Photo: Is this the first Taliban-made drone, ever?

May 19, 2012, 1:49 pm
$
0
0
Update May 19, 2012 21.18 GMT The following pictures, courtesy of the Helmand Governor’s Media Center, show what looks like a small drone that was discovered along with poppy, small arms, ammunitions and other materials used to make improvised explosive devices (IED), by the Afghanistan’s National Department of Security in the Nar-e-Seraj district of Helmand [...]
↧
↧

Video: B-2 stealth bomber ground operations at Nellis’s Red Flag

May 20, 2012, 8:49 am
$
0
0
An interesting video showing B-2 Spirit bombers, belonging to the 509 BW from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, being prepared for flight, taxiing, and taking off during exercise Red Flag 12-3 at Nellis AFB, NV. The close-up footage shows some interesting details about the bomb bays and retractable airstairs of the 2 billion USD stealth [...]
↧

Covert US drone operations tracked in real time, via Twitter. Exposing tactics too.

May 20, 2012, 12:26 pm
$
0
0
The social networking medium of Twitter is becoming a bit of a nightmare for covert CIA drone operations in the Yemen.  In fact, in near real time, each time a drone is heard or spotted, locals tweet robots’ targets, details and whereabouts to their followers, using the Yemen hastag (#Yemen). On May 18, MSNBC has [...]
↧

Aggressor fighter pilot, Nellis Air Force Base and Las Vegas. In a single photo

May 21, 2012, 6:00 am
$
0
0
Nellis Air Force Base, in Nevada, home of the Red Flag exercise,  is for sure one of the most famous airbases in the world. It is located in northeast Las Vegas, and covers more than 14,000 acres (57 km2) with ranges providing 15,000 square miles (39,000 km2) of airspace for flying operations. The following picture, taken [...]
↧
Viewing all 2822 articles
Browse latest View live
Search