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Top Gun director Tony Scott commits suicide. He personally paid 25,000 USD to...
On Aug. 19, at around 12.30 pm, Tony Scott, film director of Top Gun, committed suicide by jumping from a Los Angeles county bridge. Although he directed and produced many successful movies, his most...
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Syria: Mig-21 firing rockets caught on tape
After watching several Mil Mi-8/17 Hip and Mil Mi-25 Hind gunship helicopters, L-39 combat trainers, Mig-23 fighter bombers and also some drones being employed by the Assadists against the rebels,...
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USS Iwo Jima would have been loaned to the Royal Navy if the British had lost...
During the 1982 Falklands War (Malvinas for the Argentine people) the U.S. publicly claimed neutrality. But in secret, President Ronald Reagan’s administration had developed plans to loan a ship to the...
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Iran’s next generation fighter jet testbed unveiled (and it looks like an F-5...
On Aug. 21, the first avionics and radar testbed for what it’s thought to be the Saeqeh V fighter jet, made a sudden appearance on the images taken during the presentation of six types of new military...
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[Special Report] The spectacular flypast for the Argentine Military Aviation...
On Aug. 10, the Argentine Air Force presented the new AT-63 Pampa II trainer to the authorities and media representatives during the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the Military Aviation...
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Israeli Air Force grounds its fleet of CH-53 Yasur helicopters
The Jerusalem Post reported that the Israeli Defense Force has grounded its entire fleet of Sikorsky CH-53 helicopters (thought to be between 25 – 38 aircraft) after one of them had a problem with its...
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Another OEF rotation: 18 South Carolina Air National Guard F-16 fighter jets...
Between Aug. 19 and 21, a total of 18 F-16CJs belonging to the 169th FW / 157th FS “Swamp Fox” of the South Carolina Air National Guard arrived in Morón, Spain on their return leg from Kandahar,...
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An unusual visitor at Nellis Air Force Base: Obama’s Air Force One, world’s...
Being the base of the Red Flag, Nellis Air Force Base, near Las Vegas, is used to host U.S. and foreign combat planes quite frequently. However, the Air Force One is a quite rare sight at Nellis too....
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Video: Danish F-16 buzzing Storebæltsbroen bridge as seen from the cockpit...
The following cockpit footage filmed from a quite unusual point of view shows two Royal Danish Air Force F-16s (not literally “buzzing” but) overflying the Storebæltsbroen in Denmark on a training...
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U.S. strategic bomber and tanker to be (temporarily) based in Australia. The...
Few days after the Indonesian Sukhoi Su-30s made their first appearance at Royal Australian Air Force Base Darwin for Exercise Pitch Black, the base in Australia’s Northern Territory will soon host...
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Insane flybys and crazy urban dogfights between F-15 and Mig-29 fighter jets:...
Released on Aug. 15, “Retun to base” (R2B) is a brand new action movie about combat planes and fighter pilots. The movie (a remake of 1964 title “Red Scarf”) is a sort-of Sotuh Korean version of “Top...
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Spain to defer the delivery and purchase of 12 Typhoon fighter planes signed...
Spanish Defense Minister, Pedro Morenés, has confirmed that Spain wants to defer the delivery and purchase of 12 Eurofighter Typhoon warplanes he has signed with the Eurofighter Defense Consortium and...
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Drone Revolution has just begun: Poland to replace Su-22 Fitter strike...
Poland is planning to replace its fleet of aging Soviet era Sukhoi Su-22M strike aircraft with an unmanned strike aircraft (UCAV) system. According to Poland’s Ministry of Defense, a future procurement...
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Photo: Morocco’s final three F-16 Block 52 fighter jets in exotic desert...
The final F-16 Block 52 fighter jets ordered by Morocco were delivered last week when three “Vipers” (nickname of the F-16 within the fighter pilot community) left Lockheed Martin production facility...
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[Update] Big misunderstanding sparks hijack alert at Amsterdam. F-16 fighter...
A miscommunication caused alarm across Europe and the Netherlands when the Dutch Ministry of Defense announced that two F-16 fighter jets had been scrambled to intercept and escort a civil liner in...
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Photo: Harrier night flight operations aboard a forward-deployed amphibious...
Taken on Aug. 29, the following pictures show night flight operations on the deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) by U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier jump...
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Video: Global Hawk drone take-off from chase car at Beale Air Force Base
Although the footage is a bit bumpy, it provides a cool point of view: that of an RQ-4 Global Hawk spyplane’s chase car during the huge drone take off from Beale Air Force Base, California, home of the...
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Royal Air Force pays tribute to the “queen of the skies” VC-10 with a...
In 1960, the RAF issued Specification 239 for a strategic transport, which during September 1961 resulted in an order for five VC-10’s from Vickers- Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd. The VC-10 was an airliner...
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U.S. F-16s tasked to destroy enemy radars, missile batteries to get the same...
All the U.S. “Wild Weasel” F-16s are being given a new paint job similar to the one of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. It is called “Have Glass 5th generation” as it represents the evolution of the...
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Fake video of Syrian L-39 forced to crash raises questions about rebel claims
Even if other readers had already pointed out to me that the video allegedly showing a Syrian L-39 crashing into the ground might be a fake, it was only thanks to “alfavega” that I eventually found the...
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