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27 years ago today, the Achille Lauro incident: when the U.S. Navy forced an...
In the night between Oct. 10 and 11, 1985 a scarcely known mission took place in the skies above the Mediterranean Sea. That night, several combat planes belonging to the Carrier Air Wing 17 (CVW-17)...
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Turkish Air Force F-16s fighter planes force Syrian civilian plane to land at...
Syrian Air Flight 442 (RB442), an Airbus A320 registered YK-AKE suspected of carrying weapons from Moscow to Damascus was forced to land at Ankara Esenboğa Airport on Oct. 10, 2012. The civil liner,...
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Syrian airliner forced to land in Turkey had radios, antennae, missile parts...
The Syrian Air Airbus 320 that was forced to land near Ankara, in Turkey on Wednesday Oct. 10 by Turkish Air Force F-16s was carrying ammunition. Probably. Hurriyet daily news has quoted Turkish Prime...
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Hezbollah behind mysterious spy drone over Israel. The first one the IAF...
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah told the militant movement’s al-Manar television network that his group was behind the launch of a mysterious UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) shot down...
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India to build export version of Sukhoi T-50 Stealth Fighter
On Oct. 10, during a visit to Dehli, Russian Defence minister Anatoly Serdyukov announced that India will begin production of an export version of the Sukhoi T-50 stealth fighter by 2020. According to...
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Video: U-2 Dragon Lady flying the visual pattern as seen from the cockpit
Ever wondered what flying in the visual pattern at Beale Air Force Base looks like from the cockpit of a U-2 Dragon Lady legendary spy plane? Here’s the answer. Related Articles “The U-2 Dragon Lady:...
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Turkey scrambles two fighter jets as Syrian Helicopter bombs Syrian border town
News agencies have reported that Turkey has scrambled two fighter jets (most probably F-16s based at Diyarbakir) to the border region with Syria, near the town of Hacipasa, after loud speakers were...
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Video: Chasing a U-2 spyplane doing a touch and go in a Chevrolet Camaro SS
Chase cars are a safety measure used to give pilots assistance during take off and landing of aircraft whose size is such that the pilot’s view is obstructed by the airframe, or part of it, and there’s...
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Stealth Black Hawk prop exposed in the Osama Bin Laden raid movie trailer
Do you remember the photograph a U.S. soldier posing in front of a mysterious seemingly radar-evading chopper published on this site few months ago? The helicopter, neither similar to any known type of...
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Video: Argentine Air Force Mirage 5 insane low level flyby
Argentinean pilots have a good tradition of low level flying. Along with images of ultra low altitude attacks on British warships during the Falklands War (Malvinas), we’ve already seen and commented a...
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Red Bull Stratos – watch the daredevil freefall from the edge of space. Live
Red Bull Stratos is the name of the project which involves Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner and his attempt to break the sound barrier on his descent from approximately 23 miles (37 km) into the...
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New Eurofighter Typhoon Squadron activated at Trapani airbase, Italy
Although it has not (officially) received its first plane yet, the 18° Gruppo (Squadron) of the 37° Stormo (Wing) at Trapani airbase, in Sicily, is the more recent Italian Air Force unit to operate the...
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Six MQ-9 Reaper, four MQ-1 Predator drones flying simultaneously, set new...
A new non-combat record was set on Oct. 2, 2012 by the 29th Attack Squadron, 9th Attack Squadron, and the 6th Reconnaissance Squadron which flew six MQ-9 Reapers and four MQ-1 Predators simultaneously...
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Unusual formation: U.S. Navy F-18Es and Royal Malaysian Air Force Sukhoi...
Taken in the South China Sea on Oct. 15, the following picture shows a quite unusual formation: two F/A-18Es from VFA-27 “Royal Maces” fly in formation with two Sukhoi Su-30s from the Royal Malaysian...
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Thirteen A-10C Warthogs make surprise visit to Decimomannu airbase, Italy, on...
On Oct. 12, 13 A-10Cs belonging to the 188th Fighter Wing, AR ANG, and 175th FW, MD ANG, made a stopover at Decimomannu airbase, in Sardinia, Italy, on their way back from a combat tour in Afghanistan....
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Iran announces new combat drone capable of carrying missiles for air defense...
On Oct. 14, FARS News Agency reported that Iran has developed and built a new indigenous multi-role, multi-range UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) capable to carry missiles. Dubbed Haazem (Determination),...
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Photo: Flames explode behind the Blue Angels’ F/A-18 Hornets at Miramar Air...
Flames seem to surround the U.S. Navy Blue Angels demo team’s F/A-18 Hornet jets during the night portion of the MCAS (Marine Corps Air Station) Miramar air show 2012, on Oct. 13. The Saturday...
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One of the most awesome pictures ever taken on board USS Enterprise: starry...
A lonely C-2 Greyhound sits on the flight deck of USS Enterprise (CVN 65) with the Milky Way partially visible on the background. The image was taken on Oct. 8, as the aircraft carrier, on its final...
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Photo: F-35′s first in-flight weapon release (of a huge 2,000 pound GBU-31 JDAM)
On Oct. 16, a conventional take off and landing (CTOL) version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, completed the first weapon drop, releasing a huge 2,000 pound GBU-31 BLU-109 warhead Joint Direct Attack...
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Impressive footage: Syrian gunship helicopter hit by the rebel fire, spins...
Brought to my attention by a reader, the following video shows a Syrian Mil Mi-8/17 Hip gunship helicopter spinning towards the ground after being hit at medium/high altitude on a mission near Idlib on...
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