Pakistan Test fires Stealth Cruise missile with 700 km range
The Pakistan Inter Service Public relations department released a Press Release on Sept. 17. Sept that announced that Pakistan has test fired a Stealth Cruise missile. Here’s what is said: “Pakistan...
View ArticlePhoto: Air Force Joint Terminal Attack Controller marks ground target for a...
Taken on Sept. 11, 2012, the following picture shows U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Drew Parks, a Joint Terminal Attack Controller, 82nd Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron, as he communicates with a...
View ArticleCommanding Officer of the Harrier squadron decimated at Camp Bastion among...
The Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 211 “Avengers” that was decimated on Friday Sept. 14, when a force of insurgents attacked Camp Bastion, in Helmand, has not only lost two Marines and eight of the ten...
View ArticleCamouflage color schemes: how many Marines can you count in this photo?
Camouflage color schemes are not only important for fighter planes’ survival in combat. The following image, released by the U.S. Marine Corps shows Marines with Scout Sniper Platoon as they mingle...
View ArticleSyria has tested chemical weapons systems using tanks and helicopters.
German Weekly publication “Der Spiegel” has reported that witnesses have seen Syrian forces test firing chemical weapons systems at its research centre at Safira, east of Aleppo, in August. According...
View ArticleB-52 bombers deployed to Europe (for an exercise) using a special radio...
Even if, during peacetime operations, radio callsigns used to identify military flights in radio communications with the ATC (Air Traffic Control) agencies are usually squadron standards (Ghost Rider...
View Article“The U-2 Dragon Lady: The evolution” documentary almost takes you on board...
Stunning footage. Pilot interviews. Plenty of information. Have a look at the following short documentary about the U-2 Dragon Lady, just released by Beale Air Force Base that explains why the...
View ArticleReaper drone and Apache helicopter involved in the Camp Bastion battle that...
Further details of the attack on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan by a squad of 15 Taliban fighters on Friday 14. Sept, that took out several US Marine Corp Harriers with the loss of two Marines including...
View ArticleSeeing the target through a Scout Sniper’s observation telescope
The following image, taken on Sept. 15, shows a target as seen through a scout sniper observation telescope of a U.S. Marine with 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd...
View Article“Turkish RF-4E Phantom shot down by Syrian missile in international airspace”...
Turkish military prosecutors that have investigated the mysterious downing of a Turkish Air Force RF-4E that went down inside the Syrian airspace on Jun. 22, 2012, say that the reconnaissance plane was...
View ArticleFrom the AC-130U Spooky gunship 25mm Gatling-type rotary cannon gunner’s...
Although not exactly from the gunner’s point of view, the following picture, taken over the Republic of Korea on Sept. 12, 2012, gives an idea of what firing down on a range with the AC-130U Spooky’s...
View ArticleU.S. Predator spy drone shot down by Kurd rebels in Turkey, near Iraq
Pictures of the wreckage of a U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator drone shot down in Turkey were released by the Kurdish Firat News Agency on Sept. 19. The spy robot was shot down by the Kurd rebels on Sept....
View ArticleSouth Korean F-15K scrambled in response to North Korea’s Northern Limit Line...
According to the Arirang News website, a South Korean F-15K fighter jet “equipped with air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles” was launched on Friday, Sept. 21, after six North Korean fishing vessels...
View ArticleWatch this huge C-5 Galaxy doing an “almost” touch and go at Westover Air...
Filmed at Westover Air Reserve Base, Massachusetts, on Sept. 20, 2012, the following video shows a C-5B Galaxy aircraft of the 439th AW (Airlift Wing) doing an “almost” touch and go during a training...
View ArticleUK’s first RC-135W “Airseeker” intelligence gathering aircraft in service by...
UK’s Royal Air Force will have the first of its planned three RC-135W aircraft, named the Airseeker project by the RAF (not clear if the aircraft is to be given that name or it’s just the name of the...
View ArticleU.S. preparing a strike in Libya, Northern Mali?
The attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, that cost the life of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens on Sept. 11, could be retaliated in the following days. This is what seems to appear by...
View ArticleIran’s new spy drone is an Israeli Hermes 450/Watchkeeper clone. Capable of...
It looks like Iran’s new UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), disclosed by recent pictures and, more in details, by the footage recently aired by Press TV, has nothing to do with the U.S. stealth RQ-170...
View ArticlePhoto: This is what remains of a U.S. Marine Corps Harrier jet after the...
The following picture, sent by a reader of the blog, shows what remains of one of the six Harrier jets in the aftermath of the Taliban attack on Camp Bastion on Sept. 14, 2012. As a result of the...
View ArticleIranian fighter jet seemingly flying over Homs: is Tehran actively taking...
Although the majority of footage, photo appearing on Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and so on, some of the images coming from Syria proved to be fake, as those allegedly showing a Syrian Arab Air...
View ArticleU.S Marine Corps F/A-18A Hornet jets deploying to the Middle East
On Sept. 24, 12 U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18A Hornet jets arrived to Morón airbase, in Spain, coming from Lajes, Azores. Belonging to the VMFA-314 Black Knights, from MCAS Miramar, California, the aircraft...
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