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Photo: AV-8B+ Harrier heavy configuration

January 17, 2012, 2:15 pm
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Taken on Jan. 17 by Giovanni Maduli, the following picture shows an Italian Navy AV-8B+ Harrier taking off from Decimomannu airbase in a heavy configuration including 4 x 300 lbs fuel tanks, used for long range ferry flights. According to the U.S. Navy’s Standard Aircraft Characteristic document , in such configuration, the AV-8B (slightly different [...]
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Photo: Costa Concordia and Cavour aircraft carrier at Civitavecchia harbor

January 18, 2012, 9:00 am
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In the last few days, after the Costa Concordia ran aground at Isola del Giglio on Jan. 13, media all around the world have published statistics to give readers an idea of the size of ill-fated ship. For instance, some reported that the empty ship weighted as 110 Boeing B747s (which version?) while others said [...]
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U.S. aircraft carriers face Iranian stealth subs in the Persian Gulf. And remote controlled ones too…

January 19, 2012, 7:01 am
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Although the U.S. Navy has just rescued sailors of an Iranian boat in distress for the third time in 10 days, Tehran doesn’t seem to appreciate the aid that the American warships are giving to Iranian civilian mariners in the Persian Gulf. In an interview with the Fars News Agency, Rear Adm. Farhad Amiri said [...]
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Touch screen, voice activated commands, portal. A new smartphone or tablet? No, the Lockheed Martin F-35′s glass cockpit.

January 19, 2012, 9:50 am
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Look at the following image. Included in the “F-35 from the Cockpit” webminar held on Jan. 18, the screenshot gives an idea of the Joint Strike Fighter glass cockpit featuring full touch screen, HOTAS, voice activated commands, system monitoring with all information displayed on a “portal” that make the most advanced (and expensive) 5th generation [...]
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First European experimental stealth combat drone rolled out: the nEUROn UCAV almost ready for flight

January 20, 2012, 5:00 am
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On Jan. 20, the nEUROn, the technology demonstrator for a European UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle), was officially presented by Charles Edelstenne, Chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation to the representatives of the countries that have been contributing to the project France, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland and Greece. The nEUROn, whose shape reminds that of [...]
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Separated and on the ground behind the enemy lines in Libya: Strike Eagle crew recount their lucky escape

January 21, 2012, 5:30 am
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The two crew members from the 48th Fighter Wing based at RAF Lakenheath UK have recently told CNN’s Barbara Starr of the night they found themselves separated and on the ground behind enemy lines in Libya. The U.S. aerial bombing campaign over Libya was just two days old last March when F-15 pilot Maj. Kenneth Harney [...]
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F-35B Finally on track?

January 22, 2012, 6:00 am
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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta visited NAS Patuxent River on Jan. 20 and announced the STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been taken off probation. “We need to make sure we are on the cutting edge” said Panetta when describing the Pentagon’s next generation war fighting technology [...]
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Photo: Hornet catching the wires. On the Arctic Circle

January 22, 2012, 11:00 am
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Published by Lt. Gen. Jarmo Lindberg, commander of the Finnish Air Force, on his Twitter timeline few days ago, the following picture (by Harri Koskinen) shows a F-18D Hornet routine arrested landing practice at Rovaniemi on the Arctic Circle. The photograph is  interesting because it shows an aircraft about to catch the wire on a [...]
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London Olympics security: Major Exercise takes place in the skies of the UK

January 23, 2012, 10:00 am
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On Jan. 18 reports started filtering in from local newspapers in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire, UK, of aircraft flying in circles over their locations and urged visitors to their website to comment on what this could be. The southern half of the UK was, on that day enjoying cold cloudless blue skies and the spectacle could [...]
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F-35: flying on phased out fuel or programmed by a videogame freak?

January 23, 2012, 12:00 pm
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Soon after publishing the article about the “F-35 from the Cockpit” I’ve received some emails and comments about an interesting thing readers have noticed in one of the webminar slides used to show the Joint Strike Fighter glass cockpit’s symbology. As the following image seems to suggest, the most advanced 5th generation combat plane, integrating the best [...]
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China: does it need to copy the RQ-170 “Beast of Kandahar” captured in Iran?

January 24, 2012, 6:00 am
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As has been widely reported it is no secret that China is trying to acquire stealth technology for use in their indigenous aircraft program. It was only last year that photo’s and video of the J-20 started to appear on the internet. It was clear that  China had made advances into the dark art of [...]
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If you wondered why a C-5 Galaxy performed the flyover at Gillette Stadium before the AFC Championship game.

January 24, 2012, 1:42 pm
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On Sunday Jan. 22, a C-5 Galaxy (#86-0023) using callsign “Rodd 10″ performed a flyover for the AFC Championship game between New England Patriots and Baltimore Ravens. Used to fast jets flyovers, someone didn’t understand why an enormous Galaxy, flew at 1,000 feet over the Patriots’ stadium after the national anthem. Here’s the explaination: the [...]
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[Updated] U.S. Special Forces raid in Somalia: no need for stealth choppers so did they parachute from a C-17?

January 25, 2012, 6:00 am
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Update Jan. 25 15:33GMT In the night between Jan. 24 and 25 a US joint Special Forces team (including the Navy SEALs) team freed two Western workers kidnapped in Somalia on Oct. 25, 2011. They were an American woman, Jessica Buchanan, and a Danish man, Paul Tisted, working for the Danish Demining Group, abducted by [...]
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F-35 First Night Flight video

January 25, 2012, 9:30 am
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On Jan. 19, 2012, the Lockheed Martin F-35A CTOL (Convetional Take Off and Landing) performed its very first night flight launching from Edwards Air Force Base, California. Piloted by Lockheed Martin Test Pilot Mark Ward, the aircraft AF-6, launched at 17.05LT and landed after sunset at 18:22 LT. An F-16 chase plane accompanied the Joint [...]
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China’s J-18 Snowy Owl: Myth or Reality?

January 26, 2012, 6:00 am
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Over the past year or so, rumours on the Internet have persisted that China has been building a stealthy STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) aircraft in a similar vein to the F-35 Lightning II. Pictures of said aircraft are non existant but the rumour mill still persists that it’s either real or will be [...]
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“The F-35 remains essential to the future of air superiority” Panetta says. And Lockheed Martin reassures: “we will solve all JSF problems.”

January 26, 2012, 4:21 pm
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On Jan. 26, several hours before U.S. SECDEF Leon Panetta would say the Joint Strike Fighter remains a DoD top priority program “essential to the future of air superiority”, Charles “Tom” Burbage, Executive VP of Lockheed Martin and General Manager of F-35 Program Integration, had already explained in a Press Briefing held in Rome that, [...]
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RQ-4 Global Hawk in shock cancellation news: old planes better than new?

January 27, 2012, 7:00 am
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Is new better than old? It would seem not. Industry insiders have leaked that the Pentagon is to cancel the RQ-4 Global Hawk program not just stopping buying new aircraft but to retire the Air Force active fleet, in favor of keeping the U-2 flying into 2020. Air force times writer Dave Majumdar wrote: “The [...]
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Old Harriers and new choppers unleashed. Welcome aboard the Cavour aircraft carrier during “blue water ops”.

January 27, 2012, 11:41 am
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On Jan. 25, along with the ambassadors of NATO members, EU, Middle East and Mediterranean partners, The Aviationist has had the opportunity to visit the Cavour aircraft carrier during “blue water ops” off Civitavecchia port. The event was jointly organized by the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to showcase one of [...]
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You will believe China has already copied the Lockheed Martin F-35 and the T-50 just visited Nellis AFB when you see these images.

January 28, 2012, 6:00 am
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Did you know that China’s J-18 Night Owl has already been photographed and appears as a copy of the Lockheed Martin F-35? And what about the T-50 that has secretly visited Nellis AFB? Have a look at the following images. I didn’t know that either until Al Clark, an aviation illustrator and photographer, sent me [...]
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“Cleared hot”: the Italian AMX light combat planes to be cleared to carry (and use) bombs in Afghanistan

January 28, 2012, 12:48 pm
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As the air war in Afghanistan winds down, hitting a 3-year low in terms of combat sorties, Italy is about to lift one of the national caveats that has denied the Air Force’s AMX light bombers deployed to Herat, to carry PGM (Precision Guided Munitions) in combat. In fact, although being able to carry bombs [...]
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