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Iran has captured another U.S. spy drone. Once again with minimal damage.
One year after a U.S. stealthy RQ-170 Sentinel drone was captured near the city of Kashmar, some 140 miles (225km) from the Afghan border, after it had violated the Iranian airspace on a spying mission...
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HD Video of a Syrian Mig-23 attacking Darayya with unguided 500-kg...
Brought to my attention by Matt Fanning on The Aviationist FB page, the following HD video is one of the few clearly showing a Syrian Mig-23BN attack plane during a strike mission on Darayya, in...
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The Hellenic Air Force holds umpteenth missile storm exercise in the...
On Nov. 27 and 28, the Hellenic Air Force successfully conducted the last of a series of live firing exercises. “Filoktitis 2/12″ exercise took place at Zakynthos firing range off the Greek island in...
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Watch the drama unfolding: Israeli Air Force F-15D hits a pelican flock on...
Although the video it’s not new (it was released shortly after the episode took place) the Israeli Defense Forces have recently released more detail about it. In October 2011, an Israeli Air Force...
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Eurofighter Typhoon test fires Beyond Visual Range Meteor missile
On Dec. 4, during flight trials conducted with support from QineticQ and MBDA at the Aberporth firing range, UK, a Typhoon fired a Meteor BVR (Beyond Visual Range) air to air missile. The live firing...
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Remotely piloted Army Black Hawk helicopter successfully demonstrates next...
A remotely-piloted highly-modified Black Hawk helicopter recently flew over the Diablo Range, east of San Jose, California, in the first autonomous flight test of the next generation rotorcraft tech:...
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North Korea to launch rocket, the U.S. move guided missile destroyers to monitor
Saturday Dec. 1, saw North Korea announce that it was going to try to launch another long-range rocket before the end of the year few months after the last failed attempt. It’s thought that this would...
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Canada about to cancel F-35 purchase. Leading to a “death spiral” of order cuts?
War veteran CF-18 Hornet multi-role fighters, heading into their fourth decade of service and due to be retired by 2020 might need to extend their service life a little bit. Or find another...
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Syrian chopper drops incendiary cluster bombs on rebels
As Assad loads chemicals into weapons, new footage (sent to me by Jake Snyder) emerges from Syria showing regime’s helicopters dropping incendiary cluster bombs on rebel positions. The Mil Mi-25 Hind...
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RAF’s Tornado Role Demo Team to return to the UK airshow scene in 2013
The RAF has recently announced that its highly acclaimed Tornado Role Demo Display Team is to return to the UK Air Show circuit for 2013. The two-ship display team using radio callsigns Poker 1 and...
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F-22 Raptor scrapes tail on runway as it lands after Pearl Harbor flyover...
An F-22 Raptor, assigned to the 199th Fighter Squadron, Hawaii Air National Guard, 19th Fighter Squadron, U.S. Air Force, sustained 1.8 million USD in damage in a landing incident at Joint Base Pearl...
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Video shows five hours of planes landing at San Diego in 25 seconds
The following video was brought to my attention by Roberto Petagna, a few days ago. It’s a quite curious composite video created by photography and film professor Cy Kuckenbaker that shows every...
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How does the F-16 perform against its adversaries in dogfight?
The Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon is the western world’s most prolific fighter of the last 40 years. Even if medium and long range air-to-air massiles, such as the AIM-7 Sparrow and the AIM-120...
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If Iran has decoded all data in the captured U.S. stealth RQ-170 drone it’s...
In the last of a series of similar claims, a senior Iranian commander announced that Tehran has just extracted all the data stored in the RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone which was captured last year....
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Boeing P-8A Poseidon Approaches U.S. Navy Fleet Operations
The Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft is nearing fleet service with the U.S. Navy (USN). USN VP-16 is approaching completion of a training syllabus at Naval...
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Photo: U-2 spyplane gets Christmas decoration at Beale Air Force Base,...
Even the austere, spooky, U-2 spyplanes at Beale Air Force Base, California, got decorations for Christmas. The following image, shows a 9th Reconnaissance Wing’s two-seater U-2 “Dragon Lady” with a...
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Cool GoPro video brings you onboard “Kubinka Diamond” display team’s Su-27,...
The following video was filmed with a GoPro HD Hero2 camera installed on the tail of a Mig-29 and inside the cockpit of a Su-27 of the so-called “Kubinka Diamond”, the Russian Air Force display team...
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Video of Unmanned Combat Air System X-47B Taxi at Sea shows the future of...
The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air Systems (UCAS) demonstrator is currently conducting trials on the on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) at sea. Involved in Carrier...
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Secretive X-37B is launched for a third classified mission around the planet
Dec. 11 saw the third launch of Boeing’s X-37B, the unmanned, reusable, mini-shuttle orbiter. The space plane was launched atop an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, just after 1.00pm Eastern...
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Emergency over North Sea: cockpit recording lets you hear aircrew ejecting...
The cockpit audio you can find below in the form of video with trancript was recorded in 1975, during a flight that ended with the ejection of a pilot and a WSO (Weapon System Officer) out of a U.S....
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