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Watch this cool video of an AFSOC MC-130J refueling a French combat...
The French Air Force has conducted the first night HAAR (Helicopter Air-to-Air Refueling). The following video shows a 352nd Special Operations Squadron MC-130J refueling French Air Force Airbus...
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Watch Hollywood Star Hugh “Wolverine” Jackman enjoy a flight in a U.S. Air...
A very special passenger recently performed an orientation flight onboard a USAF F-16. Filmed on Feb. 19, 2016, the following video shows the actor Hugh Jackman flying in a U.S. Air Force F-16D...
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Polish Pilot Flies The M-346 Master Advanced Jet Trainer For The First Time
The Polish Air Force nears the delivery of the first M-346 Master. On Mar. 2, 2016, Lt. Col. Konrad Madej became the first Polish pilot to fly the Italian M-346 Master, the advanced jet trainer which...
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U.S. Air Force B-52s take part in French-led CAS exercise “Serpentex” for the...
U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers deployed to Moron Air Base have joined French Air Force fighters in CAS exercise Taken on Mar. 1, 2016 the photo in this post shows a French Air...
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While B-2s deploy to the Asia-Pacific region, the U.S. is considering moving...
U.S. presence in the Asia-Pacific theatre grows. On Mar. 10, the U.S. announced the deployment of three Air Force B-2 stealth bombers from the 509th Bomb Wing, from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri,...
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U.S. F/A-18Es performed an airborne change of command in the skies near the...
Airborne change of command U.S. Navy-style over South China Sea. On Mar 7, revitalizing a time-honored naval tradition, three F/A-18E Super Hornets assigned to the Warhawks of Strike Fighter Squadron...
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Total air superiority with a bit of swing role: the Italian Typhoons have...
The Italian F-2000s have conducted 115 missions logging 180 flying hours in the Nevada Test and Training Range. On Mar. 11, RF 16-2 came to an end. Among the more than 70 combat planes that took part...
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Is a Turkish UAV currently operating inside the Iraqi airspace?
What might be an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is circling over the border between Turkey and Iraq. Increasingly, military aircraft as well as UAVs can be tracked online thanks to the emissions of their...
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A U.S. E-6B Doomsday Plane is using “Trump” as radio callsign while flying...
By accident or not, a U.S. Navy E-6B is flying over CONUS using callsign “Trump.” This is really interesting: at 18.15 GMT an E-6B Mercury (TACAMO – “TAke Charge And Move Out”) that appear to have...
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Here are the aircraft that could replace the A-10 Warthog in the CAS mission
The U.S. Air Force has launched a study to find the A-10 Thunderbolt II replacement. Given the U.S. Air Force plan to retire its A-10 fleet in 2022, the service has recently announced that has launched...
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Here’s the first video of the Russian combat planes leaving Syria
The first group of Russian aircraft redeploying to Russia after Syria air war has left Hmeymim airbase. On Mar. 15, the Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu ordered to...
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Camouflage color scheme works: F/A-18F Nearly Disappears in Rainbow Canyon!
This photo explains why combat planes still wear camouflaged color schemes! A unique U.S. Navy F/A-18F bearing a brown camouflage scheme has likely had many question why a US Navy Strike Fighter would...
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These photos show two U.S. B-52 bombers performing a surprise low flyby over...
Two U.S. Stratofortress bombers caught during a low passage at Gando airbase. On Mar. 4, two of the U.S. Air Force B-52 bombers deployed to Spain performed a low flyby over Gran Canaria island, in the...
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A quick look at why the HH-60G Pave Hawk is the perfect CSAR helicopter
U.S. Air Force HH-60H Pave Hawk helicopters at exercise Voijek Valour. Taken on Mar. 3, the following cool pictures show HH-60G Pave Hawks belonging to the U.S. Air Force 56th Rescue Squadron (RQS)...
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What was this aircraft doing in Israel’s Dimona nuclear facility airspace?
Air traffic observed in the much guarded Dimona reactor’s airspace. Located a few kilometers southeast of Dimona, the Negev Nuclear Research Center is an Israeli nuclear facility used for nuclear...
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Russian Air Force Su-25 Frogfoot attack aircraft dropped 6,000 (mostly...
The Russian Air Force Su-25 Frogfoots were pretty busy during their Syrian deployment. On Mar. 16, the Russian Aerospace Forces (RuAF) welcomed the return of their Sukhoi Su-25 attack aircraft from...
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Watch this stunning video of a U.S. nuclear submarine breaking the ice to...
The Los Angeles-class USS Hartford performed a North Pole surfacing. There is no need to highlight the strategic importance of submarines. The type of missions they can carry out is quite vast: they...
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Unique video shows how historic aircraft were transported to the National...
Historic combat aircraft down the street. Filmed in 1970, the following video shows how vintage combat planes were moved from the Air Force Museum at Patterson Field down State Route 444 to the new...
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A bear named “Yogi” was ejected from a USAF B-58 to test the Hustler’s escape...
“Yogi” was ejected at 35,000 feet, 870 mph. On Mar. 21, a 2-year old black bear named “Yogi” was ejected from a U.S. Air Force B-58 during tests of the Hustler’s escape capsule. The bear was ejected at...
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Red Flag 16-2: Italian, Turkish and U.S. Forces Train to Fight Advanced...
Red Flag 16-2 explained. The second Red Flag of 2016 featured an international coalition training against a dynamic and integrated “Red Adversary” Force. The exercise, running from Feb. 29 to Mar. 11...
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