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U.S. to send additional Aviation Battalion of Apache helicopters, reconnaissance planes, missiles to South Korea

June 13, 2012, 1:22 pm
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Media outlets in Asia are quoting General James Thurman, commander of the U.S. forces in Korea as saying that he has made a request to the Pentagon to deploy more attack helicopters, reconnaissance aircraft and missile assets to the region. Tensions on the Korean peninsula are at an all time high, amid fears that a [...]
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Arctic Tigers: the most interesting participants at the NATO Tiger Meet 2012 at Ørland, Norway

June 13, 2012, 3:39 pm
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This year’s NATO Tiger Meet was hosted by the 338 Skvadron of the Royal Norwegian Air Force at Ørland MAS, in Norway between May 29 and Jun. 8. As always, many aircraft sported eye-catching special color schemes or “Tiger” markings,  as the following images taken by The Aviationist’s contributor Tony Lovelock show. Image credit: Tony [...]
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U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft crashes on Eglin range

June 14, 2012, 4:30 am
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A U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey, belonging to the 1st Special Operations Wing, of the Air Force Special Operations Command, crashed at around 18.45 LT on Jun. 13, 2012, on the Eglin Range, north of Navarre, Florida. Five crew members aboard the tilt rotor aircraft were taken to local area hospitals. Two of them were [...]
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Video exposes Venezuela’s made-in-Iran drone. Chavez: “we are making drones, assembling rifles”.

June 14, 2012, 11:02 am
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During his speech on Jun. 13, at the Ministry of Defense, President Hugo Chavez reiterated Venezuela’s sovereign decision to consolidate its independence from foreign threats through initiatives such as the military buildup and development in the defense field. During the event, he presented some Iranian Mohajer 2 drones, operating in Venezuela under the name of [...]
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Northrop Grumman unveils the new gigantic MQ-4C BAMS Triton drone

June 14, 2012, 3:55 pm
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On Jun. 14, the U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) unmanned aircraft system (UAS), was unveiled during a ceremony attended by about 300 people at Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale, California, manufacturing plant. Now officially called the Triton, the MQ-4C, that is continuing testing and evaluation, parts assembly and installation, and radar risk-reduction tests, will [...]
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Video: air dropping a humvee from a C-130 Hercules. As seen through the Night Vision Goggles.

June 15, 2012, 6:00 am
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The following video was taken during Joint Operations Access Exercise taking place from Jun. 4 to Jun. 11 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. A joint operations access exercise is a two week exercise to prepare United States Air Force and Army service members to respond to worldwide crises and contingency operations with a wide variety [...]
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Possibly unknown/damaged drone spotted at Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Program Facility (on the same day Iran captured a U.S. stealthy RQ-170)

June 15, 2012, 8:09 am
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If you point your Google Earth client towards Palmdale, California, you will find a very interesting imagery signature at Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Program Facility. Widely known as “Skunk Works” LM’s Advanced Development Program Facility is where some of the most adveniristic “black projects” are developed. Although it’s a bit hard to believe that any [...]
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This is one of the coolest F-35 photos, ever: Carrier Variant first night take off with full afterburner

June 15, 2012, 10:49 am
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The following image shows Marine Corps test pilot Lt. Col. Matt Taylor as he ascends in F-35C test aircraft CF-2, on Jun. 13. It was taken at NAS Patuxent River and depicts the first night takeoff for the carrier variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The flight was aimed at evaluating the aircraft’s night [...]
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Red Arrows on the runway, F-16 holding short, some thousand spectators: satellite imagery of Biggin Hill airport taken on airshow day

June 15, 2012, 2:07 pm
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Seen through the indiscreet eye of the satellite, almost all airports seem quite quiet. Usually, you can spot some aircraft taxiing, other either taking off or landing on the runway, whereas the majority of the others sit on the apron. Almost all airports. If you check what Biggin Hill looks like on either Google Maps [...]
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U.S. Navy replenishes its stock of Tomahawk long-range, conventional attack, cruise missiles. Getting ready for new initial air strikes?

June 16, 2012, 7:39 am
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All the most recent conflicts have started with a storm of cruise missiles against fixed enemy targets. The war in Libya is just the last of a long series of campaigns or raids in which Tomahawk missiles have been used to wipe out the opponent’s air defenses, before the first combat planes entered the enemy [...]
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Air Force mini-Shuttle returns to Earth at the end of clandestine 15-month mission around the globe

June 16, 2012, 8:49 am
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On Jun. 16, 2012 at 05.48 AM local (12.48 GMT), 469 days after it was launched, the Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California at the end of the longest space mission only after the Discovery shuttle program. The venicle glided powerless to landing on Vandenberg’s runway, located some [...]
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If you want to know what an airbase in Central Europe was like during the Cold War, visit Weeze (ex RAF Laarbruch)

June 17, 2012, 3:49 pm
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During early 1945 the allies were building up for the final push across the Rhine and found themselves in need of several airfields close to the front line. Advanced Landing Ground Goch (B-100) was built about 70 km (43 miles) from Dusseldorf near the border with the Netherlands, by the British Army to perform this task. A [...]
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Photo: Spectacular F/A-18C low fly-by above the flight deck of USS Nimitz

June 17, 2012, 4:23 pm
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When I first saw the following picture, I thought it was taken after a “bolter”. In naval aviators slang, a bolter is when an aircraft attempting to perform an arrested landing on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, touches down but fails to catch the arrestor cable and come to a stop. However, as [...]
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Rapid launch exercise at Minot AFB: 17 B-52 heavy bombers take off in sequence to test mission readiness

June 18, 2012, 6:50 am
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A 17-ship rapid launch from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, was the highlight of Constant Vigilance, an exercise held on June 11, 2012 to test the B-52H Stratofortress force’s mission readiness. The Cold War-like quick reaction launch included B-52 bombers from both Minot and Barksdale AFB, Louisiana that took the air one by one [...]
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“Negative Ghost Rider, the pattern is full”. Aircraft carrier’s recovery procedures

June 18, 2012, 9:25 am
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The following image shows an F/A-18E Super Hornet from the “Dambusters” of VFA-195 as it flies over the USS George Washington (CVN 73) aircraft carrier. Image credit: U.S. Navy The photograph is not only cool because it depicts the Strike Fighter Squadron’s CAG bird, but also because another flight of two F-18s can be seen [...]
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Video: First F-35 Carrier Variant night flight. With heavy afterburner usage.

June 18, 2012, 2:01 pm
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After the first cool images, here’s the video of the F-35C test plane CF-2 during the first night flight on Jun. 13. As seen when the F-35A made its first night sortie in January, note the green night formation lights, used by combat plane to make formation flying easier after dark. Related Articles This is [...]
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“Turkish Phantom shot down because Syrian soldiers may have confused it for an Israeli plane” Syrian Information Minister says

June 27, 2012, 4:17 pm
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Although much of what has happened on Jun. 22, when a Turkish Air Force RF-4E from Erhac was shot down by a Syrian air defense battery remains a mystery, at least the reasons why the aircraft was fired at after violating the Syrian airspace were (possibly) disclosed on Jun. 27, when the Syrian Information Minister [...]
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Here’s another cool B-52 cockpit video!

June 28, 2012, 3:16 pm
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With all the fleet having surpassed 50 years of active service, the B-52 heavy bomber remains one of the most interesting (and powerful) weapon system in the U.S. inventory. Few days ago the post If you love the B-52, this video was made for you: take-off, aerial refueling, formation flying, landing with the Buff showed some interesting [...]
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Video: High Park Fire Helicopters at work

June 29, 2012, 6:00 am
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Ignited Jun. 9 by a lightning strike to a tree in Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado’s High Park Fire, has burned 87,284 acres and destroyed at least 257 homes in the foothills west of Fort Collins. More than 1,300 fire personnel, 17 hand crews, 103 engines, 11 dozers and 18 water tenders as well as air [...]
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Watch this image: a ship-based anti-ballistic missile launched at night by a guided-missile cruiser

June 29, 2012, 9:00 am
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Even if similar pictures have already been published in the past, I find the following image particularly interesting because it was taken on Jun. 27 and shows a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block 1B interceptor as it leaves the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) after launch during a Missile Defense Agency test in the [...]
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