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VMA-211 mourns its Commander as it pushes forward to complete deployment in...
Although it suffered the worst hit to enemy fire since WWII, enduring not only the loss of eight AV-8B+ Harrier jets in the Taliban attack on Camp Bastion’s airfiled, Marine Attack Squadron 211 remains...
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[Photo gallery] All the most interesting aircraft of the “Resurgent” Russian...
On Aug. 11 and 12, the Russian Air Force celebrated its 100th anniversary with an airshow at Zhukovsky, Moscow. During the three-day air show, President Vladimir Putin said the Russian Air Force will...
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Photo: An F-35A test aircraft flies over Space Shuttle Endeavour at Edwards...
On Sept. 21, the space shuttle Endeavour mounted atop a Boeing 747 SCA (Shuttle Carrier Aircraft), from Edwards Air Force Base to Los Angeles International Airport overflying the most iconic places in...
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How many A-10 combat planes can you count in this photo? All of them are...
Although the caption of the following picture reads “more than a dozen A-10 Thunderbolt….” I can count 19 such combat planes belonging to the 354 FS, 355th Fighter Wing from Davis Monthan Air Force...
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New iPhone 5 “Lightning” connector might be incompatible with your airplane
According to Flight Display Systems, iPhone 5′s new “Lightning” connector and its taller form-factor could make the new phone and adapters incompatible with existing aircraft iPhone accessories. Even...
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Pilots of the Turkish RF-4E downed by Syria executed by Assad on Russia’s...
According leaked top secret Syrian intelligence documents obtained by Al Arabiya shed light on the fate of the two Turkish Air Force pilots flying the RF-4E that was downed by Damascus on Jun. 22,...
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Video: NASA’s F/A18 Hornet extended view of Space Shuttle Endeavour’s flyover...
The following video was filmed by one of the two NASA Dryden’s F/A-18 Hornet jets escorting the space shuttle Endeavour mounted atop Boeing 747 SCA (Shuttle Carrier Aircraft), during its final flight...
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This is what taking part to a U.S. Special Forces raid on board a 160th SOAR...
The following picture provides an interesting point of view: that of U.S. Special Forces (USSF) soldiers scanning the ground below for threats while flying on a 160th Special Operations Aviation...
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All you need to know about arrested landings on U.S. aircraft carriers
From the last three quarters of a mile all the way to touchdown the pilot approaching a U.S. aircraft carrier can rely on LSO (Landing Signal Officers – radio callsign “Paddles”) talkdown. LSOs are...
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From Russia with Love: more pictures from the Russian Air Force centenary...
On Aug. 11 and 12, where the Russian Air Force celebrated its 100th anniversary with a pyrotechnic airshow that featured mass flybys, heavy formations of Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers, Su-27s,...
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Replenishment At Sea: even Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carriers need fuel and...
The following picture shows Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) as it steams aside the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Pecos (T-AO 197) during a...
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Video: Syrian rebels down another helicopter gunship outside Damascus
Syrian rebels anti-aircraft fire has become increasingly effective against Assad regime helicopter gunships. Taken on Oct. 5, the following video shows another Mil Mi-8 Hip being hit by artillery fire...
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This is the DC-3 plane the State Dept denied to Stevens and Security Support...
According to the CNN Security Clearance blog, the State Department denied a request by the security team at the U.S. Embassy in Libya for continued use of a DC-3 plane earlier this year. Even if the...
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Korean Peninsula on the verge of Nuclear war?
At a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly on Oct 1. North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Pak Kil-yon, one of the final speakers at the assembly’s annual gathering in New York, made the following comment:...
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Israeli Air Force releases video of mysterious drone shot down by an F-16...
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that had penetrated the Israeli airspace in the morning of Oct. 6, was identified and intercepted by what looks like an Israeli Air Force F-16 fighter jet at...
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Special Operations planes used to carry investigative teams to Benghazi as...
In the last weeks, an unsual, covert, constant activity of U.S. Special Operations planes has been recorded in the Mediterranean Sea. Quite regularly, taking off from Souda Bay, in Crete, various types...
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Israeli Air Force flies mock air raids over Lebanon in response to the...
In response to the mysterious UAV incursion into Israeli air space on Oct. 6, Haaretz has reported that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) has flown several mock air raids over Lebanese villages on Oct. 8....
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Heroic nightime icy Arctic sea search and rescue mission awarded with trophy...
The Canadian Forces Search and Rescue team was selected as the winner of the AgustaWestland‘s 2012 Cormorant Trophy for Helicopter Rescue. The trophy was awarded for a dramatic long range complex...
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Turkey sends 25 F-16 fighter jets close to the Syrian border
As Syria and Turkey exchange fire for the seventh straight day, Ankara has announced up to 25 F-16 fighter jets were moved closer to the border, at Diyarbakir airbase. The aircraft represent the manned...
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U.S and Israel plan “limited surgical strikes” on Iranian enrichment...
David Rothkopf (DR), a former Clinton administration official has written an article on the Foreign Policy website stating that U.S. and Israel have decided on a limited surgical strike on the alleged...
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