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Spherical Flying Machine: the new low cost Japanese military ground and...
The following video shows a brand new spherical unmanned aerial system (UAS) developed by the Japan Ministry of Defense and presented at the Digital Content Expo, held in Tokyo from Oct. 20 to 22,...
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F-35: an expensive hard-to-recycle form of garbage?
I find the following picture rather funny. It was taken at Seoul Air Show and shows a Lockheed F-35 Lightning II….with a “garbage” sign posted on the barrier in front of the plane. Obviously it’s only...
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Italian Air Force Special Operations Forces training
The 21° Gruppo is one of the most famous squadrons of the Italian Air Force: formerly belonging to the 53° Stormo at Cameri, it has been a member the NATO Tiger Association since 1968. The squadron...
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Republic of Korea Navy’s warships meet the Italian aircraft carrier Cavour in...
On Oct. 29, two warships of the Republic of Korea Navy or ROK Navy (ROKN) involved in a training campaign in the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean met with the Italian aircraft carrier Cavour in the...
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Special feature: the most interesting pictures of the aircraft involved in...
On Oct. 31, at 23.59 Libyan Time, exactly 7 months after it began, NATO Operation Unified Protector has come to an end. Since the beginning of the Uprising and especially from Mar. 19, the Day 1 of the...
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Israeli Air Force “long range training”: getting ready for Iran?
As happened in 2010, once again Decimomannu airbase hosted the “Vega” (VEX), a small-scale multinational exercise that this year was attended by 20 aircraft belonging to the Italian, Israeli and German...
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Italian Navy AV-8B+ Harrier 20th anniversary special colour
On Oct. 27, 2011, the Marina Militare (Italian Navy) celebrated the 20th anniversary of the GRUPAER (Gruppo Aerei Imbarcati), the squadron flying the Italian AV-8B+ Harriers. During the ceremony held...
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Mini-Drones, SAMP/T, Storm Shadow and a Lotus “Evora” at the Italian Armed...
The Italian Armed Forces Day exhibition, held each year in Rome inside the Circus Maximus (Circo Massimo), always provides an interesting opportunity for a close look at the most interesting equipments...
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Is the F-35 stealth jet so advanced that it can be flown using one hand only?...
Do you remember HOTAS (Hands On Throttle And Stick)? Ok, forget it. As the following Lockheed Martin picture shows, the F-35B, the (most costly) Short Take Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) version of...
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Fighter Planes vs Racecars: same tech, same physical laws, same charm
Hands On Throttle And Stick, Variable Geometry Intakes, Movable Ailerons and Wings, Boundary Layer Control, etc. are only but few technologies common to Military Aviation and Formula One. Aerodynamics...
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Shindand airbase: Afghan Air Force main training facility
Shindand (or Shindad), in Western Afghanistan, will be the future Afghan Air Force (AAF) main training facility. Today it is the base used by the young and quite small Afghan Air Force to train its...
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Special feature: the most interesting pictures of the aircraft involved in...
After publishing the first Special Feature to celebrate the end of the war in Libya with the most interesting aircraft involved in Operation Unified Protector, many photographers sent me more images...
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Adm. Di Paola is the first military in active service to be named Italy’s...
Former Italian Chief of the Defense Staff, Adm. Giampaolo Di Paola, has been named Italy’s new Defense Minister as part of a Cabinet named on Nov. 16 and led by Mario Monti, the former European...
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Video: unidentified flying object trailing a C-17 over the U.S. West Coast
Recorded on Nov. 11, 2011 (or if you prefer on 11/11/11) this video shows an unknown object trailing a C-17 Globemaster III over the U.S. West Coast. Although it is obviously a UFO because it is both...
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Updated: Mysterious Stealth Helicopter photographed in California is a...
Helikopter Hysterie blog’s editor Axel M. Vollmer, who posted my Stealth Black Hawk digital mock up in May, has recently taken the following pictures of a mysterious Stealth Helicopter sitting out in...
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An interesting combat chopper profile officially cleared for publication:...
On May 3, 2011, in the aftermath of the Osama Bin Laden raid that disclosed the existence of a stealth helicopter based on the UH-60 “Black Hawk”, I’ve started thinking about the secret chopper used to...
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Forget any security concern and welcome Air Force One on Flightradar24!
In my article titled Would modern transponders have made the hijacked planes visible to radars on 9-11? about Mode-S and ADS-B usage I wrote: According to an esteem by Flightradar24.com, around 60% of...
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The most unusual display team ever: two jet planes and a jet man. Is this the...
Yves Rossy is pilot with experience with the Dassault Mirage III and the F-5 Tiger in the Swiss Air Force, and with the B747 for Swissair. However, he is most known for being an aviation inventor...
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Conformal Fuel Tanks, Storm Shadows, Meteor and IRIS-T missiles: the (really...
I don’t really know if this version of the Eurofighter Typhoon will ever become a reality. However, chances seems to be increased after Eurofighter received a quite surprising RFP (Request For...
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Impressive video: behind the scenes of world’s largest aerobatic display...
Even while most people like to attend air shows to see aerobatic display teams performances, they usually don’t know what happens inside the formation, which are the main roles of the team, which are...
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