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RAF Tornados involved in “marathon” seven-hour mission to defend US and...
RAF Tornado GR4s from 617 “The Dambusters” Squadron, belonging to the 904 Expeditionary Air Wing at Kandahar, have helped to defend US and Afghan forces from an insurgent attack in Helmand province, as...
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In Afghanistan, EA-6B Prowlers to be replaced by Beechcraft King Airs capable...
The US Army is using a brand new technology that is installed into its Beechcraft King Air aircraft deployed in the skies of Helmand Province Afghanistan, that can jam and intercept insurgent...
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U.S. Air Force goes East: more than two dozen U.S. F-16s in Bulgaria for a...
Eight years since President George W. Bush congratulated the prime ministers of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia for becoming NATO members, Bulgaria and United...
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The ninth minute barrier: Pentagon releases Falcon Hypersonic Technology...
With a statement released on Apr. 20, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said that Mar. 20 failed test was (unsurprisingly) caused by the extremely high speeds. Launched from Vandenberg Air...
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Iran claims it has decoded the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 Drone Intel but provides...
Iran has decoded the U.S. stealthy drone intel? What? oh, umm…yeah…sure According to a FARS News Agency article published on Apr. 22, Iran has just finished deconding the intelligence gathering sensors...
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40-year old Falklands, Iraq, Libya veteran Sea Dart missile makes its last...
Introduced some 40 years ago, Sea Dart missile, a ship lunched anti-aircraft and anti-missiles with a range of around 80 miles, was fired for the last time on Apr. 13. The test firing, as part of the...
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What is a Cyber Weapon?
We’ve been taking about Militarisation of cyberspace for some time now. This interesting article by Hackmageddon.com provides a model to classify cyber weapons in accordance with four parameters:...
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Latest from Syria: mortars, anti-aircraft vehicles and (maybe) chemical weapons
After publishing the Special feature: all the weapons used by the Syrian regime on Homs, Bjørn Holst Jespersen, a contributor of The Aviationist, has continued to analyse the footage of the Syrian...
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[Updated] Video: One of the lowest fly by ever by an F-16
Update Apr. 23, 2012 21.30 GMT Allegedly recorded in Afghanistan (that, as far as I remember, it’s a landlocked country with no sea…), the following video, uploaded a couple of days ago on Liveleak has...
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Middle East Cyber War: Revenge Of The Drones
In the same hours in which I was publishing my post on Cyber Weapons, news agencies all around the world have begun to release (few) details about a new alleged Cyber Attack targeting the Iranian Oil...
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M-346 advanced combat trainer first weapon delivery tests
Taken at Decimomannu airbase last week, by Gian Luca Onnis, the following picture is the only available to date, of an M-346 advanced combat trainer flying with a BRD (Bombs and Rocket Dispencer). Such...
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Photo: F-35A completes first aerial refueling with inert AIM-9X, JDAM and...
On Saturday, Apr. 21, an F-35A Lightning II CTOL (conventional takeoff and landing aircraft) operating from Edwards AFB, achieved the first in-flight refueling mission from an Air Force’s KC-10 while...
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Quadrotor killer drone with machine gun and self-destruct module: a deadly...
First of all let’s have a look at the following increble video. It shows a mini quadrotor drone carrying a machine gun in order to bring remote-controlled death from above. The prototype drone,...
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The most interesting, dramatic (recent) helicopter pictures from all around...
In the image below, a pair of Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters (in an interesting configuration including snow pads) prepare to land at the Alaska Army National Guard Army...
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British Prime Minister to use new RAF tankers for future overseas visits...
The Royal Family and senior UK politicians may consider using one of the RAF’s “Voyager” Airbus A330 tanker aircraft for future foreign trips after a rather embarrassing trade trip to Indonesia caused...
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This is by far the best F-15 video you have ever seen: aerial combat with...
The following video, brought to my attention by a tweet of @shotgunf15e (a Strike Eagle pilot) is by far the best F-15 footage you can find on the web. According to the information provided by the...
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Exclusive: F-16 gets killed by Typhoon during air combat training in first...
The following screenshot comes from a video recorded by the HUD (Head Up Display) of a Eurofighter Typhoon and it is the first (and only) Typhoon HUD capture ever made public. It shows an F-16 in the...
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Photo: New Ghana Air Force Casa 295 on delivery flight
Africa’s air forces aircraft are quite rare outside their continent. When one of those services owns only few planes, a picture of one of its aircraft has a certain value for aviation spotters and...
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Mig-29 crashes during Bulgarian – US Air Force exercise: a dramatic photo...
On Apr. 26, 2012, a Bulgarian MiG-29UB (“11″ white), involved in the Thracian Star 2012 exercise with the U.S. Air Force F-16s from Aviano, crashed into a river between the southern villages of...
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Bring on some bandits! Combat pilots to fight against computer generated...
Even if WVR (Within Visual Range) contests made famous by Top Gun movie, are still the most exciting (and disputed….) part of a combat pilot’s training, future wars’ most likely scenarios are those...
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