Iranian combat planes tried to shoot down a U.S. Predator. A weird story.
According to the CNN, that was the first to report the story, on Nov. 1, two Iranian combat planes tried to shoot down a U.S. Predator spyplane off the coast of Iran. The American MQ-1 was flying a...
View ArticleUp close and personal with the badass Typhoon’s Helmet Mounted Symbology System
Taken at Grosseto airbase during the recent Spotter Day, the following close up pictures show the Eurofighter Typhoon‘s HMSS (Helmet Mounted Symbology System). Based on data made available by...
View ArticleVideo shows how you should attack a drone if you really want to shoot it down
On Nov. 1, two Iranian combat planes (reportedly, Su-25 Frogfoot bombers) intercepted and tried to shoot down a U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator flying 16 miles off Iran’s coast. The impromptu interceptors...
View ArticleTurkish Black Hawk crashes during operation against Kurd rebels, 17 dead
News websites are reporting that a Turkish Sikorsky (Black Hawk?) has come down in bad weather on Herekol mountain, in the Pervari district of Siirt province (southeastern Turkey). It was carrying...
View ArticleOdd NOTAM unveils mysterious drone operations in the Las Vegas area
A NOTAM (Notice To Airmen) issued on the FAA website, provides some interesting information about UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) activity around the Sin City on Nov. 11. !HHR 11/014 ZLA AIRSPACE...
View ArticleU-2 touch and go as seen from the most original point of view ever….
We have already seen several U-2 videos. Among those showing the aircraft taking off or departing, this is the one filmed from the most original point of view: the left wheel of the plane’s chase car...
View ArticlePasdaran Su-25 Frogfoot jets in action
Brought to my attention by Paolo Nurra and originally posted on the Uskowi On Iran blog, the following pictures were released in 2006 by the Fars and Mehr news agencies. They show the Sukhoi Su-25...
View ArticlePhoto: Israel – American exercise reaches its peak with actual Patriot...
It was dubbed “the most advanced combat lab in the world for active defense”. Indeed, it’s an exercise which simulates a wide variety of missile attacks on Israel and the interception of those threats...
View ArticleU.S. Air Force announces B-2 stealth bomber World Tour: “Coming to a theather...
“Spirit World Tour, Coming to a Theater Near You”: this is the slogan of used by Air Force Magazine to report about the “regular worlwide training training deployments to each of the US combatant...
View ArticleThis B-1 bomber releasing flares during a high-speed flyby is my favourite...
The B-1 has been dubbed as the plane capable to carry the largest payload of both guided and unguided weapons in the Air Force inventory. Flares are aerial infrared countermeasures made of a...
View ArticleIran shows U.S. stealth drone captured last year
Dating back to Oct. 10, 2012, the following report (brought to my attention by Giuliano Ranieri – thanks!), aired by Al-Manar TV (Lebanon) and made available on Youtube by the MEMRI (Middle East Media...
View ArticleBoom! Video shows Israeli Air Force strike on Hamas Military Chief’s car in...
Just released by the Israeli Air Force, the following video shows how the the IDF targeted and killed Ahmed Jabri, the head of Hamas’ military wing in the Gaza Strip. The car in which the senior Hamas...
View ArticleSite Maintenance
The Aviationist will be under maintenance on Nov. 15. Articles will be regularly posted but if you experience any problems in the next couple of days, don’t worry, we are already fixing them.
View ArticleFireworks on America’s West Coast? No, an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile...
On Nov. 14 at 03:07 AM LT, the Air Force Global Strike Command has launched a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a simulated reentry vehicle from Vandenberg Air Force Base,...
View ArticleOdd NOTAM unveils mysterious drone operations in the Las Vegas area
A NOTAM (Notice To Airmen) issued on the FAA website, provides some interesting information about UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) activity around the Sin City on Nov. 11. !HHR 11/014 ZLA AIRSPACE...
View ArticleU-2 touch and go as seen from the most original point of view ever….
We have already seen several U-2 videos. Among those showing the aircraft taking off or departing, this is the one filmed from the most original point of view: the left wheel of the plane’s chase car...
View ArticlePasdaran Su-25 Frogfoot jets in action
Brought to my attention by Paolo Nurra and originally posted on the Uskowi On Iran blog, the following pictures were released in 2006 by the Fars and Mehr news agencies. They show the Sukhoi Su-25...
View ArticlePhoto: Israel – American exercise reaches its peak with actual Patriot...
It was dubbed “the most advanced combat lab in the world for active defense”. Indeed, it’s an exercise which simulates a wide variety of missile attacks on Israel and the interception of those threats...
View ArticleU.S. Air Force announces B-2 stealth bomber World Tour: “Coming to a theather...
“Spirit World Tour, Coming to a Theater Near You”: this is the slogan of used by Air Force Magazine to report about the “regular worlwide training training deployments to each of the US combatant...
View ArticleThis B-1 bomber releasing flares during a high-speed flyby is my favourite...
The B-1 has been dubbed as the plane capable to carry the largest payload of both guided and unguided weapons in the Air Force inventory. Flares are aerial infrared countermeasures made of a...
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