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Entire fleet of F-35 stealth fighters grounded by new engine problem
On Feb. 22, the Pentagon decided to suspend the flights of all Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter planes after a crack was found on a turbine blade of a test aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base,...
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“Iran has downed another foreign drone,” but it’s only a bad translation
It looks like a bad translation was the cause of the news that Iran had captured another foreing drone during “Great Prophet 8″ drills conducted in southern Iran on Feb. 23. According to some media...
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How the “Black Jet” became the “Gray Dragon”: the story of the only gray...
The Lockheed F-117A was not only the world’s first operational stealth aircraft, but also one of the most secret plane ever developed. Conceived for night secret missions, the “Nighthawk” was...
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Israel successfully test fires its latest version of the Arrow anti-missile...
The Israeli Air Force has released details that it successfully test fired the latest version of its Arrow anti-missile system on Feb. 25, 2013. Image credit: EPA via Telegraph The block 4.1 system...
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The very best “seat” you can find on a C-130 airlifter
As the image below proves, the observation window on a Royal Air Force C-130K (that reminds a WWII gunner’s ball turret) may be the best seat you will ever find on board an Hercules cargo. Especially...
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Here’s how a boom operator refuels an A-10 from a KC-135 tanker
The following video is not only interesting for the stunning footage showing some A-10C Warthog aircraft with 190th Fighter Squadron refueling from a KC-135 but because it shows, from a quite unusual...
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Lockheed awarded $6.9 billion upgrade...
The US Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a ceiling of $6.9 billion to upgrade the service’s fleet of F-22 Raptor stealth fighters. Lockheed...
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Pentagon F-35 Chief batters Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney over program
Shortly before the F-35 fleetwide grounding was lifted (as investigation found that cracked turbine blade affected only overused test plane and no redesign is needed), Reuters reported that during an...
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[Video] U.S. tanker refuels French Rafale combat planes over Mali
Among the (known) U.S. assets supporting the French Air War in Mali, there are some 100th ARW’s KC-135 from RAF Mildenhall (operating from Moron airbase, in Spain). The following video brings you on...
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[Photo] Six C-130 Hercules aircraft practice large formation airlift tactics...
On Feb. 21, 2013, a formation of six C-130 Hercules from Yokota Air Base, Japan participated in a mission whose aim was to practice large formation airlift tactics and procedures. In the image below,...
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Here is how a Royal Canadian Air Force F-35 in special color scheme could...
Even if the future of the F-35 in the Royal Canadian Air Force is at least uncertain, after the program was “reset” (with several other replacement combat planes being considered, including the Super...
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Red Flag 13-3: focusing on Electronic Warfare, SEAD and Intelligence. With...
Red Flag 13-3 currently underway at Nellis Air Force Base focuses on complex combat ops, in an “electronic scenario”. At least, this is what seems to emerge based on the analysis of the units taking...
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Amazing St. Maarten-like photo of a B-2 stealth bomber landing in Guam. Ops,...
Update Mar. 4, 2013, 19.20 GMT Princess Juliana Airport in St. Maarten, the Caribbean island, is one of the world’s most famous airports: essentially, planes on short final for landing pass on top of...
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Failure or Omen? White smoke escaped from the Pope’s helicopter just after...
White smoke escaping through a small chimney visible from St. Peter’s Square is traditionally used to announce the world the election of a new pope following a successful vote by the conclave. Let’s...
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What happens if a drone hits your plane midair? Here’s a detailed analysis
On Mar. 4, 2013, at approximately 1:15 p.m. LT, the pilot of Alitalia Flight AZ608, a Boeing 777 registered “EI-ISE”, flying from Rome Fiumicino to New York John F. Kennedy international Airport,...
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“F-35 super stealth plane will get pilots shot down in aerial combat” new...
According to an article published by the Washington Times, the F-35A, the Conventional Take Off and Landing version of the Joint Strike Fighter, would be defeated in aerial combat because of his...
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How many F-16 jets can you count in this photograph?
This image, sent to me by Ulaşcan Yüksel, shows an impressive lineup of Turkish Air Force F-16C fighter planes on an airbase in Turkey. I think 31 “Vipers” (F-16′s nickname within the fighter pilots...
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Red Flag’s “Red Air”: Badass F-15 and F-16 Aggressor fighter jets at Nellis...
The Aggressors’ F-15s and F-16s are the most famous and very well known planes of the Nellis’ 57th Wing. These combat planes with Air Force’s 64th and 65th AGRS (Aggressor Squadron) play an important...
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AgustaWestland unveils Project Zero, the world’s first electric powered...
The aircraft is built in the tilt-rotor technology, with rotors that can be rotated 90 degrees in order to change configuration from VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) to conventional, similarly to...
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Mali Air War: inside a Harfang drone ground control station
The Harfang is a medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) unmanned air vehicle (UAV) system that undertakes ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance) missions in support of Operation Serval in Mali....
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