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More about Camaro chase cars for the U-2 spyplanes
An article written by W.J. Hennigan for the LA Times, provides some new interesting details about the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of cars used to chase U-2 (and, presumably, RQ-4 Global Hawks) spyplanes....
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Royal Australian Air Force bids farewell to the C-130H with spectacular...
Nov. 19 saw the Royal Australian Air Force celebrate 34 years service of the Lockheed C-130H Hercules with a 2-ship retirement flight over Sydney. Departing RAAF Base Richmond the two aircraft, one...
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Chinese TV airs first stunning footage of J-15 flight ops on board China’s...
Although it’s still decades away from achieving a combat capability comparable to that of the U.S. Navy, China’s People Liberation Army Navy is trying to fill the gap quite quickly. According to...
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Italian Eurofighter Typhoons get checkered tails
The 18° Gruppo of the Italian Air Force has had checkered tails on its planes since it flew the F-104 Starfighter in the 1980s. Image credit: ItAF Then, the traditional checkerboard appeared on the fin...
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James Bond’s badass helicopter: the AW101 Skyfall
The AgustaWestland AW101, a new generation all-weather medium-lift three-engine helicopter is among the “main characters” of Skyfall, the 23rd James Bond movie, which premiered in London on Oct. 23,...
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Israel successfully test fires Magic Wand, Iron Dome successor
The International Business Times website has run an article that states that Israel has test fired an updated and upgraded interceptor missile called “Magic Wand also known as David’s Sling.” The...
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Perfect Storm: Lightning flashes as U.S. aircraft carrier passes through a...
The following cool image shows USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) aircraft carrier passing through a thunderstorm during maritime security operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations, as flashes...
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F-15 fuel tank washes ashore in the southern Gaza Strip: Hamas claims it is...
On Nov. 26, a heavily damaged aircraft fuel tank washed ashore near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Hamas media outlets claim the part comes from an Israeli Air Force plane shot down by militants...
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Video shows first direct hit of a Surface to Air Missile on a Syrian helicopter
The following video clearly shows a Syrian Mil Mi-8 Hip helicopter hit by a surface-to-air missile near Aleppo on Nov. 27, 2012. Even if there we have seen many videos showing Assad’s gunships downed...
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Illustrious-based Apache gunship helicopters in live fire exercise off Gibraltar
HMS Illustrious (“Lusty”) has just finished its part of Cougar 12 deployment to the Mediterranean that saw its Apache attack helicopters firing live Hellfire missiles on ranges off Gibraltar. Two...
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Photo shows pilots ejecting from their jet moments before it crashed into the...
The following image was taken by Erwin Fuguet Gedde at Maracay-El Libertador airbase, Venezuela, where the Venezuelan Air Force was celebrating its 92 Anniversary with the Día de la Aviación. It...
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First there was Iron Dome. Now ADAM shows how to intercept rocket rains...
Rafael’s Iron Dome has become famous all around the world after being extensively used to face Hamas rockets during the 8-day military operation in the Gaza Strip known as Pillars of Defense. More...
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Surveillance camera video shows F-18 crashing into Virginia Beach apartments
On Apr. 6, 2012, a U.S. Navy F/A-18D Hornet crashed into Mayfair Mews Apartments off of Fleming Drive, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.. Fortunately, no one was killed in the accident even if several...
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New (still quite secret) Hit-to-Kill missile for the F-35 unveiled: the...
Until a photo with an interesting caption appeared on the November 2012 issue of Air Force Magazine, few people had noticed that an F-35 display model at the Air Force Association Technology Expo 2012,...
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U.S. Navy catapults X-47B combat drone for the first time
On Nov.29, the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator successfully completed its first land-based catapult launch from Naval Air Station Patuxent River. Hence, as China greeted the first...
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Europe’s first stealth killer drone “nEUROn” makes maiden flight
On Dec. 1, the “nEUROn”, the technology demonstrator for a European UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle), made its first flight from Dassault Aviation company’s flight test base in Istres, France....
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[Special Feature] World’s first nuclear aircraft carrier USS Enterprise...
USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was inactivated on Dec. 1 after 5 decades of service. From her commissioning as the world’s first nuclear powered aircraft carrier in November of 1961 to her final deployment...
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UK to stand up its first F-35 Squadron in 2014
The first two UK pilots have begun their training to fly the F-35 at Elgin AFB, Florida. The two pilots are part of a small band of only 30 pilots that are either learning to fly the jet or have...
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Joint Strike Missile (JSM) anti-ship and land-attack missile for the F-35...
On Nov. 29, the Norwegian company Kongsberg and the Norwegian Ministry of Defence unveiled the first fuselage of the Joint Strike Missile (JSM) that is being developed for the F-35. The JSM is a...
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NASA’s spooky plane on the way back to the U.S. after Tour of Duty in...
After completing a BACN deployment at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan, one of the NASA’s last two flying WB-57Fs is on its way back to Ellington Field, Texas. Wearing the typical white color scheme,...
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