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Photo: air-to-air with the Colombian Air Force Kfirs in the Nevada Test and Training Range during the Red Flag

August 4, 2012, 5:30 pm
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The following exclusive image was taken by The Aviationist’s photographer Tony Lovelock during a flight on the Colombian B-767 from Nellis Air Force Base. It shows two Colombian Air Force Kfirs joining the tanker left wing during a Red Flag 12-4 sortie. Many more images about the last Red Flag and, in particular, about the [...]
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The story behind this stunning B-1 photo: “RAMA 81 Heavy” across the pond

August 5, 2012, 3:14 pm
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The following image was taken from a KC-135 tanker on Jul. 31, 2012. Image credit: U.S. Air Force It shows a B-1B as it crosses the Atlantic Ocean on its way to Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. The aircraft (#85-0064) had taken off from RAF Mildenhall as “Rama 81 Heavy” along with Quid 63, an [...]
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Is this the first leaked image of a new U.S. Stealth Helicopter or just a model used for a new Osama Bin Laden movie?

August 7, 2012, 9:43 am
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Update Aug. 7, 2012 23.45 GMT Read the comment thread for more information about the helicopter, identified as prop. Although I’m not sure the one depicted in the photo below is really a new stealth chopper like the one exposed by the Osama Bin Laden raid in May 2011, I find the following image extremely [...]
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U.S. bombers to get an improved stealth weapon. Capable to destroy targets 600 miles away. Useful for Syria, North Korea, Iran or China.

August 8, 2012, 2:13 pm
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The B-1B “Lancer”, known as “Bone” within the pilot community, is a multi-mission bomber, capable of carrying the largest payload of both guided and unguided weapons in the U.S. Air Force inventory. It can accommodate up to 24 radar-evading AGM-158 Joint Air-Surface Stanfoff Missile (JASSM) in its bomb bays, twice as many as the B-52. [...]
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Video: Syrian Arab Air Force L-39 firing rockets

August 9, 2012, 5:00 am
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Since the first videos of L-39 Albatros, mistakenly identified by several media outlets as “Migs”, made their first appearance on Youtube on Jul. 24, the combat trainer equipped with an under fuselage gun pod and external stores, have become the aircraft of choice of the Syrian Arab Air Force to attack Free Syrian Army positions [...]
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Photo: Drunken man gets a full body X-ray after falling asleep on baggage inspection machine at Rome Fiumicino airport

August 9, 2012, 9:50 am
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On Jul. 23, at about 18.00 local time, a drunken Norwegian man fell asleep on the conveyor belt of the baggage inspection machine of the Rome Fiumicino airport Terminal 3′s check in desks. While having his quick alcohol-induced nap, the inebriated man failed to wake up when the machine began working. He travelled for 50 [...]
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Photo: F-35 Completes first airborne weapons separation

August 9, 2012, 11:18 am
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Traveling at 400 knots at an altitude of 4,200 ft, F-35 BF-3, a STOVL (short take-off and vertical landing) JSF variant, released an inert 1,000 lb GBU-32 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) separation weapon over water in an Atlantic test range. Here is the text of the NAVAIR and the Joint Program Office press release: [...]
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Photo: This is what being intercepted inside a No-Fly Zone by an F-16 fighter jet looks like

August 10, 2012, 4:00 pm
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I took the following picture few years ago while flying a so-called SMI (Slow Mover Interception) exercise from Trapani airbase, in Sicily, Italy. On board a slow moving Siai 208 single engine light plane, whose task was to simulate a renegade aircraft violating a No-Fly Zone guarded by F-16 fighter jets on CAP (Combat Air [...]
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Ten Minnesota Air National Guard F-16s (including a “Viper” with a new paint scheme) enroute to Kandahar, Afghanistan.

August 12, 2012, 10:11 am
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On Aug. 12, ten Minnesota Air National Guard F-16CJs belonging to the 148th FW “Bulldogs” from Duluth International Airport arrived in Morón, Spain. The two flights, respectively using the radio callsigns “Cube 21-26″ and “Cube 31-36″, are enroute to Kandahar, in Afghanistan. Among all the aircraft involved in the deployment (91-0336, 91-0388, 91-0341, 96-0082, 96-0081, [...]
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Video: Rebels down Syrian Arab Air Force Mig-23BN fighter jet in East Syria

August 13, 2012, 5:03 am
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The following video clearly shows a Syrian Arab Air Force Mig-23BN hit by anti-aircraft artillery fire on Aug. 13, 2012 over MoHasen town near Deir Ezzour, in eastern Syria. Therefore, not only the L-39 combat trainers and the Mil Mi-8/17 Hip and -25 Hind gunships are currently attacking the Free Syrian Army positions in Syria. [...]
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[Exclusive Report] Colombian Air Force Kfir jets at their very first Red Flag. Beware: air-to-air photographs inside.

August 14, 2012, 7:00 pm
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As already explained weeks ago, culminating two years of preparation and training, a Colombian Air Force contingent, made of IAI Kfir fighter jets, accompanied by two tankers, KC-137 FAC 1201 “Zeus” and  B-767 Multi-Mission Tanker Transport FAC 1202 “Jupiter”, arrived at Nellis Air Force Base on Jul. 13, 2012. Six Israeli-built Kfirs (Hebrew name meaning young [...]
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Syrian regime’s drone workshop with Saeqeh UAVs (and evidence of Iranian support) captured by the rebels in Aleppo

August 15, 2012, 11:46 am
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The following video, just uploaded to Youtube, allegedly shows an Assad regime’s drone workshop in Aleppo, just captured by the rebels. Interestingly, the type of drones depicted in the footage are not the “Pahpad“, the UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) most frequently spotted spying on the Free Syrian Army around Homs and elsewhere in Syria since [...]
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Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney sued by F-22 pilot’s widow

August 15, 2012, 2:53 pm
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AirForce Times has run an article stating that the wife of Capt. Jeff Haney who died when his F-22 Raptor crashed in Alaska in November 2010 has agreed to a binding settlement after launching a lawsuit with the main contractors for the jet. Anna Haney wife of Capt. Jeff Haney filed the lawsuit in May, [...]
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[Updated] A possible blue print for an Israeli attack on Iran. Including special munitions, radar evading tech, ballistic missiles

August 15, 2012, 8:00 pm
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US Blogger Richard Silverstein has published details of a potentially leaked Israeli document that allegedly gives a clue on how the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) would launch an attack on Iranian targets. According to Silverstein, who was also interviewed by the BBC on this “scoop”, it’s an Israeli briefing document outlining Israel’s war plans against [...]
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Chinese delegation currently in Iran to copy the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 drone captured in 2011.

August 16, 2012, 10:00 am
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According to the information being spread by Chinese Defense forums, a group of 17 Chinese expert would have recently arrived in Iran not only to inspect, but also to collect and bring back to China some key components of the U.S. RQ-170 drone captured by Iran in December 2011. Indeed, Chinese technical experts had already [...]
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Chinese aircraft carrier spotted with mock Shenyang J-15 combat plane on board

August 16, 2012, 8:00 pm
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As reported by The Dew Line, Flightglobal’s Greg Waldron has found some interesting pictures showing China’s new carrier, the former Soviet vessel, Varyag with a Flanker copy on board. The most interesting photo, that can be found with a  quick search of the Chinese Internet, is that of what appears to be a modified Shenyang [...]
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Video shows Syrian Mil Mi-25 gunship releasing flares. A sign that rebels got their hands on MANPADS?

August 17, 2012, 5:30 am
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The following video, shows a Mil Mi-25 Hind gunship releasing flares during a mission over Talbiseh, Syria on Aug. 15. Flares are high-temperature heat sources ejected from the aircraft’s dispensers to mislead the missile’s heat-seeking targeting system: since the burn temperature is hotter than that at the engine’s exhaust the burning flares attract and decoy [...]
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Alaska’s F-22 stealth fighter jets became the first operational Raptors to drop GBU-39 small diameter bombs

August 17, 2012, 6:21 am
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The 3rd Wing F-22 stealthy multi-role fighters based at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson became the first operational Raptor unit to drop GBU-39 small diameter bombs. It happened during exercise Combat Hammer, a weapon system evaluation program sponsored by the 86th Fighter Weapons Squadron, in the Utah Test and Training Range, “the only location in the U.S. [...]
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This may be the first video taken on board a Syrian Arab Air Force gunship helicopter during a mission against the rebels

August 18, 2012, 6:22 am
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Some Twitter followers pointed me to this video allegedly showing a Syrian Arab Air Force Mil Mi-8 Hip helicopter, armed with machine guns, on a mission over Syria against the Free Syrian Army positions. Although I’m unable to verify the authenticity of this video, it should be (at least according to the title) footage leaked [...]
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Did Iran really get one or more F-16 fighter jets from Venezuela?

August 20, 2012, 5:45 am
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During the late ’70s Iran ordered 160 F-16As. However, with the fall of the Shah in 1979, the order was cancelled and those aircraft were never delivered, although some tooling and maintenance equipment reportedly arrived in country in readiness for deliveries. Still, there are some (mainly Iranians who reportedly saw them) who argue two airframes [...]
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