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Pakistan Test fires Stealth Cruise missile with 700 km range

September 17, 2012, 7:00 am
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The Pakistan Inter Service Public relations department released a Press Release on Sept. 17. Sept that announced that Pakistan has test fired a Stealth Cruise missile. Here’s what is said: “Pakistan today conducted a successful test fire of the indigenously developed multi tube Cruise Missile Hatf-VII (Babur), having a range of 700 kilometres. Babur Cruise missile is [...]
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Photo: Air Force Joint Terminal Attack Controller marks ground target for a Navy Hornet under starry sky. In Kuwait.

September 17, 2012, 12:17 pm
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Taken on Sept. 11, 2012, the following picture shows U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Drew Parks, a Joint Terminal Attack Controller, 82nd Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron, as he communicates with a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet supporting Operation Spartan Shield Southwest Asia. Although the exact location is “undisclosed”, Spartan Shield is the name of [...]
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Commanding Officer of the Harrier squadron decimated at Camp Bastion among the Marines killed in the Taliban attack

September 17, 2012, 1:46 pm
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The Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 211 “Avengers” that was decimated on Friday Sept. 14, when a force of insurgents attacked Camp Bastion, in Helmand, has not only lost two Marines and eight of the ten AV-8B+ Harrier jets deployed in Afghanistan. According to UTSanDiego.com, Marine and family sources have confirmed that Lt. Col. Chris “Otis” Raible, [...]
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Camouflage color schemes: how many Marines can you count in this photo?

September 18, 2012, 5:00 am
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Camouflage color schemes are not only important for fighter planes’ survival in combat. The following image, released by the U.S. Marine Corps shows Marines with Scout Sniper Platoon as they mingle with members of Special Shooting Team at the Hijudai Maneuver Area, Oita, Japan on Aug. 21. The team were taking part to Exercise Forest [...]
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Syria has tested chemical weapons systems using tanks and helicopters.

September 18, 2012, 8:00 am
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German Weekly publication “Der Spiegel” has reported that witnesses have seen Syrian forces test firing chemical weapons systems at its research centre at Safira, east of Aleppo, in August. According to the report, a total of five or six shells designed to deliver chemical agents were fired by both tanks and helicopters, at a site [...]
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B-52 bombers deployed to Europe (for an exercise) using a special radio callsign: the name of a Libyan city

September 18, 2012, 2:01 pm
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Even if, during peacetime operations, radio callsigns used to identify military flights in radio communications with the ATC (Air Traffic Control) agencies are usually squadron standards (Ghost Rider xxx, Panther xx, Bogey xx, Weasel xx, etc.) or picked among specific “patterns” (car types, animals, currencies, etc. – as done during exercises) under certain circumstances they [...]
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“The U-2 Dragon Lady: The evolution” documentary almost takes you on board the spyplane at 70,000 feet

September 19, 2012, 6:00 am
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Stunning footage. Pilot interviews. Plenty of information. Have a look at the following short documentary about the U-2 Dragon Lady, just released by Beale Air Force Base that explains why the legendary spyplane, already flying surveillance missions all around the world, has evolved. “This isn’t the airplane Francis Gary Powers flew…” Related Articles Video: Global [...]
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Reaper drone and Apache helicopter involved in the Camp Bastion battle that wiped out the U.S. Marine Corps Harrier force in Afghanistan

September 19, 2012, 9:27 am
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Further details of the attack on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan by a squad of 15 Taliban fighters on Friday 14. Sept, that took out several US Marine Corp Harriers with the loss of two Marines including the Harrier squadron commander have begun to emerge. The British tabloid newspaper “The Sun” has run an article in which the battle [...]
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Seeing the target through a Scout Sniper’s observation telescope

September 19, 2012, 11:52 am
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The following image, taken on Sept. 15, shows a target as seen through a scout sniper observation telescope of a U.S. Marine with 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit. The Marines were involved in high-angle marksmanship training as part of a three-week training package, focused [...]
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“Turkish RF-4E Phantom shot down by Syrian missile in international airspace” Ankara says

September 19, 2012, 2:55 pm
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Turkish military prosecutors that have investigated the mysterious downing of a Turkish Air Force RF-4E that went down inside the Syrian airspace on Jun. 22, 2012, say that the reconnaissance plane was shot down by a missile. According to the official report, the missile (fired by a SAM battery) exploded near the left engine nozzle, when [...]
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From the AC-130U Spooky gunship 25mm Gatling-type rotary cannon gunner’s point of view during live firing in Korea

September 20, 2012, 5:30 am
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Although not exactly from the gunner’s point of view, the following picture, taken over the Republic of Korea on Sept. 12, 2012, gives an idea of what firing down on a range with the AC-130U Spooky’s 25mm Gatling-type rotary cannon looks like. Two AC-130U gunships, similar to those that were monitored as they deployed to [...]
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U.S. Predator spy drone shot down by Kurd rebels in Turkey, near Iraq

September 20, 2012, 7:30 am
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Pictures of the wreckage of a U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator drone shot down in Turkey were released by the Kurdish Firat News Agency on Sept. 19. The spy robot was shot down by the Kurd rebels on Sept. 18, during an operation against the rebel bastion of Uludere, in the Hakkari prefecture. According to [...]
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South Korean F-15K scrambled in response to North Korea’s Northern Limit Line violation

September 24, 2012, 4:30 am
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According to the Arirang News website, a South Korean F-15K fighter jet “equipped with air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles” was launched on Friday, Sept. 21, after six North Korean fishing vessels crossed the Northern Limit Line in the the Yellow Sea. The North Korean boats were spotted by South Korean patrol ships that fired warning shots [...]
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Watch this huge C-5 Galaxy doing an “almost” touch and go at Westover Air Reserve Base

September 24, 2012, 6:00 am
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Filmed at Westover Air Reserve Base, Massachusetts, on Sept. 20, 2012, the following video shows a C-5B Galaxy aircraft of the 439th AW (Airlift Wing) doing an “almost” touch and go during a training sortie. Noteworthy, on final approach, due to the crosswind, the pilot “crabs” the C-5 to apply a WCA, Wind Correction Angle [...]
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UK’s first RC-135W “Airseeker” intelligence gathering aircraft in service by the end of 2013

September 24, 2012, 2:48 pm
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UK’s Royal Air Force will have the first of its planned three RC-135W aircraft, named the Airseeker project by the RAF (not clear if the aircraft is to be given that name or it’s just the name of the project) by December 2013. Flight Global ran an article that padded out a few details on [...]
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U.S. preparing a strike in Libya, Northern Mali?

September 25, 2012, 9:00 am
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The attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, that cost the life of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens on Sept. 11, could be retaliated in the following days. This is what seems to appear by judging what is happening in Europe and, more specifically, in the Mediterranean Sea, where, quite silently, the U.S. [...]
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Iran’s new spy drone is an Israeli Hermes 450/Watchkeeper clone. Capable of carrying missiles.

September 25, 2012, 1:47 pm
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It looks like Iran’s new UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), disclosed by recent pictures and, more in details, by the footage recently aired by Press TV, has nothing to do with the U.S. stealth RQ-170 captured in December 2011. Although the details of its internal equipment, sensor array and ground control station are still unknown (therefore [...]
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Photo: This is what remains of a U.S. Marine Corps Harrier jet after the Taliban attack on Camp Bastion

September 26, 2012, 10:15 am
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The following picture, sent by a reader of the blog, shows what remains of one of the six Harrier jets in the aftermath of the Taliban attack on Camp Bastion on Sept. 14, 2012. As a result of the attack, that cost the U.S. the worst air loss to enemy fire in one day since [...]
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Iranian fighter jet seemingly flying over Homs: is Tehran actively taking part to the air war in Syria?

September 26, 2012, 1:40 pm
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Although the majority of footage, photo appearing on Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and so on, some of the images coming from Syria proved to be fake, as those allegedly showing a Syrian Arab Air Force plane hit by surface to air missiles or the L-39 crashing into the ground after being hit by Free Syrian [...]
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U.S Marine Corps F/A-18A Hornet jets deploying to the Middle East

September 27, 2012, 9:00 am
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On Sept. 24, 12 U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18A Hornet jets arrived to Morón airbase, in Spain, coming from Lajes, Azores. Belonging to the VMFA-314 Black Knights, from MCAS Miramar, California, the aircraft arrived in two waves as “Trend 61-66″ and “Trend 71-76″. Although someone speculated they were deploying to Afghanistan, where the U.S. has recently [...]
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