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U.S. to send additional Aviation Battalion of Apache helicopters,...
Media outlets in Asia are quoting General James Thurman, commander of the U.S. forces in Korea as saying that he has made a request to the Pentagon to deploy more attack helicopters, reconnaissance...
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Arctic Tigers: the most interesting participants at the NATO Tiger Meet 2012...
This year’s NATO Tiger Meet was hosted by the 338 Skvadron of the Royal Norwegian Air Force at Ørland MAS, in Norway between May 29 and Jun. 8. As always, many aircraft sported eye-catching special...
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U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft crashes on Eglin range
A U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey, belonging to the 1st Special Operations Wing, of the Air Force Special Operations Command, crashed at around 18.45 LT on Jun. 13, 2012, on the Eglin Range, north of...
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Video exposes Venezuela’s made-in-Iran drone. Chavez: “we are making drones,...
During his speech on Jun. 13, at the Ministry of Defense, President Hugo Chavez reiterated Venezuela’s sovereign decision to consolidate its independence from foreign threats through initiatives such...
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Northrop Grumman unveils the new gigantic MQ-4C BAMS Triton drone
On Jun. 14, the U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) unmanned aircraft system (UAS), was unveiled during a ceremony attended by about 300 people at Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale,...
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Video: air dropping a humvee from a C-130 Hercules. As seen through the Night...
The following video was taken during Joint Operations Access Exercise taking place from Jun. 4 to Jun. 11 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. A joint operations access exercise is a two week exercise to...
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Possibly unknown/damaged drone spotted at Lockheed Martin’s Advanced...
If you point your Google Earth client towards Palmdale, California, you will find a very interesting imagery signature at Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Program Facility. Widely known as “Skunk...
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This is one of the coolest F-35 photos, ever: Carrier Variant first night...
The following image shows Marine Corps test pilot Lt. Col. Matt Taylor as he ascends in F-35C test aircraft CF-2, on Jun. 13. It was taken at NAS Patuxent River and depicts the first night takeoff for...
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Red Arrows on the runway, F-16 holding short, some thousand spectators:...
Seen through the indiscreet eye of the satellite, almost all airports seem quite quiet. Usually, you can spot some aircraft taxiing, other either taking off or landing on the runway, whereas the...
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U.S. Navy replenishes its stock of Tomahawk long-range, conventional attack,...
All the most recent conflicts have started with a storm of cruise missiles against fixed enemy targets. The war in Libya is just the last of a long series of campaigns or raids in which Tomahawk...
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Air Force mini-Shuttle returns to Earth at the end of clandestine 15-month...
On Jun. 16, 2012 at 05.48 AM local (12.48 GMT), 469 days after it was launched, the Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California at the end of the longest...
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If you want to know what an airbase in Central Europe was like during the...
During early 1945 the allies were building up for the final push across the Rhine and found themselves in need of several airfields close to the front line. Advanced Landing Ground Goch (B-100) was...
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Photo: Spectacular F/A-18C low fly-by above the flight deck of USS Nimitz
When I first saw the following picture, I thought it was taken after a “bolter”. In naval aviators slang, a bolter is when an aircraft attempting to perform an arrested landing on the flight deck of an...
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Rapid launch exercise at Minot AFB: 17 B-52 heavy bombers take off in...
A 17-ship rapid launch from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, was the highlight of Constant Vigilance, an exercise held on June 11, 2012 to test the B-52H Stratofortress force’s mission readiness....
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“Negative Ghost Rider, the pattern is full”. Aircraft carrier’s recovery...
The following image shows an F/A-18E Super Hornet from the “Dambusters” of VFA-195 as it flies over the USS George Washington (CVN 73) aircraft carrier. Image credit: U.S. Navy The photograph is not...
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Video: First F-35 Carrier Variant night flight. With heavy afterburner usage.
After the first cool images, here’s the video of the F-35C test plane CF-2 during the first night flight on Jun. 13. As seen when the F-35A made its first night sortie in January, note the green night...
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“Turkish Phantom shot down because Syrian soldiers may have confused it for...
Although much of what has happened on Jun. 22, when a Turkish Air Force RF-4E from Erhac was shot down by a Syrian air defense battery remains a mystery, at least the reasons why the aircraft was fired...
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Here’s another cool B-52 cockpit video!
With all the fleet having surpassed 50 years of active service, the B-52 heavy bomber remains one of the most interesting (and powerful) weapon system in the U.S. inventory. Few days ago the post If...
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Video: High Park Fire Helicopters at work
Ignited Jun. 9 by a lightning strike to a tree in Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado’s High Park Fire, has burned 87,284 acres and destroyed at least 257 homes in the foothills west of Fort Collins....
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Watch this image: a ship-based anti-ballistic missile launched at night by a...
Even if similar pictures have already been published in the past, I find the following image particularly interesting because it was taken on Jun. 27 and shows a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block 1B...
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