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Drones used as Proxies to get around ISP blocking and law enforcement:...
Nearly in contemporary with the breaking news that a judge in New Zealand’s High Court has declared that the order used to seize Kim Dotcom’s assets is “null and void”, writing another page inside the...
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Photo: MC-12W spyplane specialized in “find, fix, and finish” bad guys at its...
Red Flag 12-3, that took place at Nellis AFB, Nevada, from Feb. 27 to Mar. 16 saw the first ever use of the MC-12W ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance) plane in the exercise. Belonging to the...
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“Yes we can”: KC-767 refueling another KC-767
Some of the readers of this blog have noticed that the text “Yes we can”, the catchphrase used by Barack Obama in his concession speech on Jan. 8, 2008, is written on the nose of the last KC-767A...
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Video: AH-64 Apache helicopter crashes in Afghanistan
Update Mar. 21 18.20 GMT An AH-64 Apache helicopter crashes into the ground after performing a fiesler-like maneuver at low altitude over the troops in the mountains of Afghanistan. Maybe it’s not a...
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Chemtrails, missiles, meteorites or falling stars? None of them. Simply some...
Next time you see a scene like that depicted in the following images please don’t be scared. It’s neither chemtrails, nor missiles, nor meteorites or something like that. Most probably, it’s just a...
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More than 70 combat planes involved twice a day in world’s most realistic...
Taking place from Feb. 26 to Mar. 16, 2012, Red Flag 12-3 at Nellis AFB, Nevada, was attended by combat planes belonging to 12 different U.S. Squadrons and from the 75 Sqn of Royal Australian Air Force...
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First video of a Syrian helicopter gunship attacking rebels near Azaz,...
The following video, brought to my attention by Bjørn Holst Jespersen shows a Syrian Mi-8/17 Hip attacking civilians/rebels near Azaz, some 30 km nortwest of Aleppo, Syria. After many videos uploaded...
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Israeli F-15I to be equipped with removable probe for buddy air-to-air...
Even though nobody knows if an attack on Iranian nuclear program will ever be launched by the Israeli Air Force almost all analysts concur that, whathever its size, the strike force will be made of a...
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Syrian regime escalates air war: new video of Mil Mi-8 firing rockets
Yesterday, the first video of an Mi-8/Mi-17 using the side mounted machine gun to attack rebels near Azaz, was uploaded on Youtube. Today, another video has emerged. It shows (in the first 20 seconds)...
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Beware of EXIF when you upload images to Flickr: USAF photo caption says...
The following picture was uploaded few days ago on the official USAF Flickr photostream. Here’s the caption (highlight mine): An Alaska Air National Guard HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter practices...
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Photo: Tailhook landing….in the desert. By a U.S. Air Force F-15
Yesterday the following image (actually uploaded by the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing on Feb. 27) was published by the Air Force Magazine. Since on Mar. 19, 2012, a dust storm blew dust over the Persian...
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New videos show Syrian made-in-Iran drone taking off from Hamah airbase, Syria
Uploaded on Mar. 24, 2012, these videos show the made-in-Iran drone, known as “Pahpad”, taking off and operating from Hamah airbase in the city of Hama, in the west part of Syria, north of Damascus....
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Video: Iranian F-14 Tomcats on combat patrol. Unarmed.
Update Mar. 27 09.40 GMT This short but interesting video (which looks like the result of several footages mixed together) shows one of the most intruguing planes operating with the Islamic Republic of...
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Photo: F-35 completes first night air-to-air refueling
On Mar. 22, 2012, the F-35 completed the fist night air-to-air refueling during a test mission from Edwards AFB, California. Piloted by U.S. Air Force pilot Lt. Col. Peter Vitt, AF-4, an F-35A...
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A330 MRTT (Multi-Role Tanker Transport) adds two new combat types: UAE Mirage...
Airbus Military has been very busy recently adding another two combat types able to be refueled from its A330 MRTT tanker aircraft, which has been ordered in three examples by the UAE Air Force. The...
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Close call: this is it. What the footage of the AH-64D crash in Afghanistan...
The video of the AH-64D belonging to the 1-227 AvCav Regiment from FOB Sharana crashing on Feb. 6, 2012 in the Paktika province in Afghanistan went viral and almost anyone interested in military...
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[Updated] New image of F-35B with an AIM-120C5 missile in the weapon bay
Update Mar. 29, 2012 20.30 GMT Mar. 22, 2012 not only marked the first night air-to-air refueling: although not widely advertised, on the same day, the F-35B BF-4, during its 100th flight, piloted by...
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Photo: A Civil Protection AW139 lands on a pier (in no-parking area)
The following pictures were taken by Giovanni Maduli in Civitavecchia harbour, where an Agusta Westland AW139 belonging to the Protezione Civile (Italian Civil Protection) landed on Feb. 24, 2012....
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NASA’s Ikhana MQ-9 drone flies with ADS-B equipment for the first time
On Mar. 15, for the first time ever at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center a Ikhana MQ-9 unmanned aircraft (modified Reaper) flew with an Automated Surveillance-Broadcast, or ADS-B transponder. It was...
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Boeing P-8A next generation anti-submarine warfare and maritime patrol...
On Mar. 28, US Navy VP-30 at NAS Jacksonville took formally delivery of the first Boeing P-8A Poseidon. The next generation maritime multi-mission aircraft, whichwill eventually replace the P-3 Orion,...
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