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China’s new military transport plane exposed. And it looks like a C-17,...
Posted by Alert5 today, the following image shows the first photographs of China’s new four-engine military airlifter. The large military transport aircraft is allegedly designed Y-20 and, nose aside,...
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Take a seat next to the B-52 heavy bomber’s Radar Navigator
The following video brings you on board a U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress during a mission from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. Anything related to the most iconic U.S. bomber is interesting....
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The special way U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcats wished Merry Christmas to sailors...
Christmas is an ordinary day when you are embarked on an aircraft carrier for maritime security operations. Still, this doesn’t mean there are no alternate ways to celebrate it, as the following images...
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Assad regime has turned combat planes into WMD-armed drones
According to Israel Hayom daily, the Mig-21 fighter jet flown by a defecting Syrian pilot to Jordan last June was found to have been modified by the Syrian Arab Air Force to carry weapon of mass...
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The Aviationist’s Top 5 stories of 2012
Here below you will find the Top 5 blog posts of year 2012. Actually, these are not the five articles that got most pageviews: in fact, among the most read ones, I’ve picked those that might be used to...
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Examining Chinese Navy’s Shenyang J-15 fighter jet’s Ordnance and Fuel...
Recent test flights of the Shenyang J-15 fighter aboard the Chinese carrier Liaoning highlighted the development of the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s (PLAN) nascent aviation forces. The capabilities...
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South Korean Navy finds North’s rocket debris
Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) has been among the first meadia oultets to report that the South Korean Navy has recovered debris from the recent North Korean rocket launch thought to be the remains of the...
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Have Assad’s forces used Chemical Weapons on Homs?
Reports have appeared on news websites according to those, forces loyal to President Assad have attacked Syrian rebels in the city of Homs with what appears to be a gas type chemical weapon. Quoting...
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China buys Tu-22 production line from Russia. A major threat to the U.S....
For the third time in 7 years (first one being in 2005, second earlier in 2012) several websites in China (link in Chinese) are reporting that China and Russia have agreed for Beijing to buy the...
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Cockpit camera view from inside a Russian Air Force +20-ship formation
Filmed by cameras installed in the cockpit of Su-27SM3, Su-25SM and MiG-29 SMT this interesting video will let you join one of the mass flybys, with which the Russian Air Force celebrated its 100th...
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U.S. Air Force to triple airspace for B-1, B-52 bomber training. Talks with...
According to the Associated Press, the U.S. Air Force has launched a six-year plan to more than triple the airspace used for its bombers to accomodate more training sorties of its Dakotas-based B-1 and...
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Iran unveils its latest helicopter Toufan 2: an indigenous AH-1 Cobra
Toufan 2 (English for Storm 2), is the name of Iran‘s latest combat helicopter that was unveiled on Jan. 2 on the sixth and final day of naval exercises spanning the Strait of Hormuz to the Indian...
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How many F-16 fighter jets can you spot in this impressive Elephant Walk photo?
On Dec. 14, 2012, Kunsan airbase, Republic of Korea, hosted the latest of a series of Elephant Walk exercise involving F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 35th and 80th Fighter Squadrons of the 8th Fighter...
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Why China’s Tu-22 bombers would represent a serious threat to U.S. Navy...
As already happened in the past for other posts published on this blog, one the most interesting comment to The Aviationist’s recent article on China’s alleged purchase of the entire Tu-22 production...
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Photo allegedly shows interception of a fleeing Syrian Mig-23 by two Turkish...
On Jan. 5, 2013, a Syrian Arab Air Force Mig-23 whose pilot had been ordered to attack Aleppo, fled to Turkey. Upon entering Turkey’s airspace, the defecting pilot replied to the radio calls of the...
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Russian Tu-22M strategic bomber sighted dangerously close to airliner off...
Update Jan. 7, 2013 14.00 GMT The following video was allegedly filmed on Aug. 27 by a passenger of flight Alaska Airliners 821 from Sacramento and Kahalui, Hawaii. According to the uploader, who has...
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Eurocopter’s EC225 Super Puma fleet for offshore operations grounded by main...
In May 2012 The Aviationist covered the story of the Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma that experienced an emergency whilst ferrying oil workers from Aberdeen (Scotland) to the Maersk Resilliant and Ensco...
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Polish and Greek combat planes conduct joint training
During the first half of December 2012, Greece and Poland conducted a joint air training exercise in western Greece. The drills took place from Dec. 3 to 14 at Araxos airbase, home of the 116 Combat...
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Networking From on High: Behind the Scenes of NASA’s Spooky WB-57 Jet
At the beginning of December 2012, The Aviationist profiled the return of a NASA B-57 Canberra aircraft from operations in Afghanistan. In addition to supporting academic and high-altitude...
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This video shows that weapons release from military planes can go horribly wrong
If you thought that just dropping an inert weapon during a test to validate a specific platform or procedure was an easy and safe task, you were wrong. The following video shows a series of...
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