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New F-16C Aggressor Color Livery (Dubbed “BDU Splinter”) Unveiled at Eielson...
F-16C Block 30 from 18th Aggressor Squadron Debuts in New Splinter-Euro/Southeast Asia Style Camo. A photo shared on the Eielson Air Force Base official Facebook page early on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017...
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Six F-22 Raptor jets Have Deployed To RAF Lakenheath, UK
Six U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors have deployed to Europe as part of the European Deterrence Initiative. Six U.S. Air Force Raptor jets, belonging to the 27th Fighter Squadron and 94th Fighter Squadron,...
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We Encountered The B-2 Stealth Bomber At Night in Stormy Skies To Get These...
Close Encounter With Two Ghostly B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers At Night. “It’s go time!” The crew announcement snaps me from my sleep. It’s near zero hundred and we fly in dark skies over western...
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Russian Su-24 Fencer Jet Crashes Near Hmeymim Airbase In Syria. Crew Killed.
A Russian Fencer has crashed shortly after (or during) take-off from airbase near Latakia, in western Syria. Pilot and Nav killed in the accident. A Russian Air Force Su-24M2, deployed to Syria, has...
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This Photo Shows A U.S. Air Force C-5M Galaxy Landing in St. Maarten For The...
A giant C-5 Galaxy landed at Princess Juliana International Airport in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. Maho Beach, located on the final approach to the Princess Juliana International Airport’s runway,...
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Spanish Eurofighter Typhoon Crashes Near Albacete After Performing In...
It’s the third deadly crash of a Eurofighter in one month. A Spanish Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon has crashed at Albacete, southeast on Madrid, Spain, while recovering to Los Lanos airbase after...
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The Enigmatic SR-72 And the Palmdale Sightings: What Do They Tell Us About...
The Media is Full of Speculation, But What Do We Know and What Can We Predict? One of 2017’s biggest defense and aviation stories is the anonymous sighting by a “handful of witnesses” of the landing of...
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Seventy Years Ago Today, Chuck Yeager Became The First Pilot To Break The...
70 years ago, the first manned supersonic flight. On Oct. 14, 1947, U.S Air Force Captain Charles “Chuck” Yeager (now 94), flying the rocket-powered Bell X-1 aircraft #46-062 christened “Glamorous...
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Interesting Photo Shows F-22 Raptor Landing At RAF Lakenheath With Open...
This Is Something You Don’t See Too Often. The photographs in this post were taken by our contributor Alessandro Fucito on Oct. 10, 2017. They show a U.S. Air Force Raptor jet, belonging to the 27th...
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Spanish Hornet Crashes During Take Off From Torrejon Air Base Killing Pilot
The Spanish Air Force has just suffered another deadly accident: an EF-18 Hornet from Ala 12.It’s The 12th Major Incident Involving A Hornet In The Last 17 Months. Just five days after losing a...
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Japanese F-4EJ Kai Phantom II Heavily Damaged in Runway Accident, Crew...
Hyakuri Phantom Burns on Ground, Reports Suggest Aircraft Written Off. A McDonnell-Douglas F-4EJ “Kai” Phantom II attached to either the 301st or 302nd Tactical Fighter Squadron of the 7th Air Wing of...
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Israeli Air Force F-35I “Adir” Involved In A Bird Strike Incident Gets Grounded
An Israeli Air Force F-35 has been involved in a bird strike during a training sortie. And the incident has fueled some weird speculations… An Israeli Air Force F-35I “Adir” (Mighty) was involved in a...
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Military and Contract Air Assets (Including U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper...
All Available Airborne Fire Fighting Assets Pressed into Service, Fires Continue. A massive combined military and contract air operation has been flying over the U.S. state of California this week in...
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We Have Found Ultra Rare Footage Showing A B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Dropping...
This Is Probably The First Clip Showing The B-2 As It Drops The GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator. The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is the only aircraft in the U.S. Air Force inventory currently capable...
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Here’s 2017 West Coast Strike Fighter Ball Video: No ATFLIR and No Gun Camera...
This year’s West Coast Strike Fighter Ball Video does not feature the “real ops” stuff: bombs, ATFLIR footage, and aerial “gun camera” clips. It seems that someone was not happy when a recent cruise...
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First F-35B Assembled Outside Of The U.S. Makes First Flight In Italy
“BL-01” is the first Italian F-35B STOVL jet. On Oct. 24, the first F-35B, the Short Take-Off Vertical Landing variant of the the F-35 Lightning II, the first assembled internationally, flew its first...
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Chinese Stealth Goes Operational, Carrier Program and Export Initiatives...
China Has Emerged as a Preeminent Global Strategic Super Power: What Does It Mean? During the past five years China’s defense programs have not accelerated, they have increased by multiples into...
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B-52 At Edwards AFB Sports Nose Art That Commemorates Its Past As...
A B-52 from the 419th Flight Test Squadron was given a new nose art to commemorate the Buff’s involvement in a top-secret test program. An interesting image has been released by Edwards Air Force Base...
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Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Claim They Have Shot Down A Saudi Eurofighter Typhoon...
Yemeni media outlets are reporting that a Royal Saudi Air Force Typhoon was shot down over Yemen yesterday. However no pictures have been released to back Houthi rebels claims, so far. According to...
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Here Are Some Interesting Details About The Way U.S. B-2 Bombers Trained Over...
Some unusual activity took place in the skies over Missouri a couple of weeks ago. Including B-2s referring to air strikes on DPKR target on the radio. Just routine stuff or a message to Pyongyang?...
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