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Iraq to buy Predator drones to protect southern oil platforms
Iraq’s Navy has already purchased U.S. drones to protect its southern oil platforms, from where most of the OPEC nation’s oil is shipped. This is what an official from the Office of Security...
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Video: Skydivers intercept gliders midair. The low cost fighter jet solution...
The following video shows what (theoretically) could be achieved by future paratroopers equipped with proper wingsuits. Five wingsuit skydivers joined up with and maintained formation with two gliders...
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Sea Harrier, the forgotten hero that won the war in the Falklands. To be...
Known by its pilots as “SHAR,”30 years ago the Bae Sea Harrier embarked on its first combat mission. Ir was April 5, 1982 when two UK’s “through-deck cruisers” (aircraft carriers) leave Portsmouth for...
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Photo: Is Darth Vader flying in a U.S. HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter during a...
You may think that Darth Vader was flying an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter, by looking at the following cool photograph taken by Rob Birmingham. However, the one worn by the airman leaning out of the...
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USMC F-35B first flight at Eglin Air Force Base. On the 100th anniversary of...
Eglin Air Force Base, that has become famous for the improvised hangar foam party that almost submerged an F-15, an F-16 and an A-10, saw the first flight of an F-35B, belonging to the USMC, on May 22,...
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Royal Air Force rescue helicopter makes “emergency” landing on a beach. To...
Do you remember the French Tiger helicopter that landed on a beach near Tripoli to pick up a Free Libya flag from a young girl? Something similar (although much less dangerous) has happened in the UK...
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One of the coolest helicopter night pictures, ever! Showing the famous...
Made available by the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division on Facebook, the following image is one of the most beautiful night shots I’ve ever seen. It depicts a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook...
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GoPro Video: Queen’s Diamond Jubilee flypast as seen from inside a 27-plane...
On Saturday May 19, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her first 60 years as monarch. A flypast saw over 80 aircraft belonging to the British air arms, overflying Windsor castle: among them, 27 RAF Hawks in...
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Russian AN-30 spyplane crashes in Czech Republic during Open Skies mission
On May 23, at 11.50 LT, a Russian Air Force AN-30B (registration 04 black) took fire after skidding off the runway on landing at the Czech air force base in Caslav, 20 miles east of Prague. Of the 23...
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[Infographic] U.S. new raids, drone attacks target review process
The Associated Press has recently published the first detailed description of the once classified military’s review process for choosing terror leaders to be added to the capture or kill list. Two...
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U.S. Air Force Academy graduation ceremony. In two interesting pictures.
On May 23, 2012, Falcon Stadium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, hosted the graduation ceremony of the U.S. Air Force Academy class of 2012. The event had a certain media coverage because, 8 months...
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First F-35A sporting 31st Test and Evaluation Squadron lettering and “OT”...
The following image, taken on May 17, shows the first flight of F-35A AF-17 at NAS Fort Worth JRB (Joint Reserve Base), with Lockheed Martin test pilot Bill Gigliotti at the controls. The aircraft,...
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Russian Tu-214R intelligence gathering plane exposed! First photo of the new...
Evgeny Volkov is the name of the photographer who took the first picture of a flying Russian Tu-214R known to date. The image Evgeny has uploaded to the Russianplanes.net portal, shows the Tu-214R...
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Possibly the best New York’s Fleet Week photo so far: the Blue Angels fly...
On May 23, the Parade of Ships marked the first day of the Fleet Week New York. During the parade, 23 Tall Ships and Warships made their way from The Statue of Liberty, past the World Trade Center...
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The U.S. Marine Corps train for a war in the Pacific: F/A-18 Hornets make...
Tinian, is one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in the Pacific Ocean. It is located about 5 miles (8 km) to the southwest of its sister island,...
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This impressive image was taken 30 years ago today: Argentine A-4B Skyhawks...
May 25 is Argentina’s National Day. It celebrates the attack carried out by the Fuerza Aérea Argentina (Argentine Air Force) A-4B Skyhawks belonging to the Grupo 5 de Caza that had been given the task...
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Robosaurus breathing fire among C-17 and C-5 cargo planes at March Air...
Modeled after Trasformers toys, Robosaurus is a transforming dinosaur robot, with the driver (or “pilot”) sitting in the head of the ‘bot, with the ability to transform from a 48-foot semi trailer into...
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Odyssey of an A-4 Skyhawk Pilot during the Falklands War: Captain Alberto...
Whilst much has been written about the British involvement in the Falklands/Malvinas conflict a short story was written by an Argentinean pilot who was involved in the attack on the beach head at San...
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Italy’s Reaper drones to be “weaponized”
Although it could take a year or more to complete the process, Italy’s Reaper drones could soon be given the official go ahead to procure the Hellfire missiles and laser guided bombs that Rome has...
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Pentagon flexing muscles at Pyongyang: B-52 bombers take part in largest U.S....
Although North Korea’s most recent attempts to project an image of strength to the rest of the world have failed, the U.S. military is undoubtedly focusing on the Korean peninsula. Even if the news...
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