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Mig fighter jets take off and land on highway as North Korea’s leader Kim...

On Feb. 28, 2013, the North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released some images depicting Kim Jong Un attending wargames somewhere in North Korea. Noteworthy, as the following images prove, the...

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Excellent video of F-22 Raptor stealth fighter operations at Red Flag 13-3

Here’s a really cool video showing the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter ops during Red Flag 13-3 currently underway at Nellis Air Force Base, in Nevada. Raptors belonging to the 1st FW from Joint Base...

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Stunning MiG-21 Highway Operations in the Polish equivalent of Top Gun

Regarding the last post about the Korean MiG-21s’ highway operations here’s another interesting thing. It is a fragment of a Polish movie Na Niebie i Na Ziemii (In the Sky & On the Ground) which is...

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Air Force releases photo of F-22 stealth fighter with Area 51 base in the...

Tanker rides are among the opportunity provided to media representatives during Red Flag exercises at Nellis Air Force Base. Every now and then, reporters and photographers are allowed to board U.S....

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Poland starts own F-16 Viper Maintenance Center

Poland has the most modern set of F-16s in Europe. 48 F-16 C/D Block 52+s  were purchased in order to replace the obsolete ex-Warsaw Pact MiG-21s, Mig-23s and other fighters (the only remaining jets in...

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Mystery drone emerges from the sea in the Gulf of Oman. American, Israeli or...

The following image shows a drone reportedly recovered by the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution from the sea in the Gulf of Oman, near the port of Jask, Iran. The mysterious UAV (Unmanned...

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Regardless of all the sensors, here is why F-35 pilots need to visually check...

In a recent post, we have explained that a recently leaked Pentagon report highlighted the poor “out-of-cockpit visibility in the F-35A”, a shortcoming that would limit the pilots ability to see aerial...

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F-35 makes precautionary landing in Texas on its way to Nellis Air Force Base

According to Reuters, one of two F-35 stealth fighters one their way to Nellis Air Force Base, where the first two aircraft were taken on charge by the 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron last week,...

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First Joint Strike Missile (JSM) multi-role missile fitted to an F-35

Unveiled on Nov. 29, 2012, the first Joint Strike Missile (JSM) developed for the F-35 by the Norwegian company Kongsberg and the Norwegian Ministry of Defence, was fitted to a test Joint Strike...

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Have you ever wondered why the AH-64 is called “Apache”? The American Indian...

All of the American Army helicopters are named after either Indian Tribe names, or Indian Tribe Chiefs’ names (Apache, Comanche, Chinook etc). This regularity is nowhere near accidental. The most...

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Cool Red Flag 13-3 Video showing Mass Launch

Here is a cool, long (18 minutes) Red Flag 13-3 video depicting well the scale of such exercise. It shows several planes taking-off from Nellis Air Force Base in order to execute their missions within...

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These are the planes the Air Force doesn’t want you to photograph from short...

Even if you can find thousand images of these planes on websites, forums, etc., there’s a weird U.S. Air Force rule according to which some planes involved in Red Flag exercises can’t be photographed...

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Iranian F-4 Phantom jets fail to intercept U.S. Predator off Iran. Once...

According to a statement by Pentagon Press Secretary George Little, on Mar. 12, an IRIAF (Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force) combat plane attempted to intercept a U.S. MQ-1 drone flying in...

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Timelapse video of forward Island being installed on UK’s future supercarrier

Mar. 14 saw the Aircraft Carrier Alliance, an alliance of several ship building companies (namely BAE Systems, THALES, Babcock and DE&S) released a time lapse video of the installation of HMS Queen...

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First Polish Avionics-Modernized MiG-29 makes maiden flight

On Mar. 15 the first Polish MiG-29 to have undergone avionics upgrade in the  Military Aviation Service Facility no. 2 (Wojskowe Zakłady Lotnicze nr 2) in Bydgoszcz took-off on its maiden flight. The...

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“Welcome to Russia, Blue Angels”: the first U.S. military presence over...

The following video is part of a film called “Blue Angels: Around the World at the Speed of Sound”, realized to support the Blue Angels 1992 season. The story behind it is very interesting and it is...

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(Finally) U.S. Air Force to add a new Helmet Mounted Cueing system to the...

Although it is integrated in U.S. F-15C/D, F-16  Block 40 and 50 and F-18C/D/E/F, on the Eurofighter Typhoon and on several other modern planes (including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter – with some...

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[Photo] Royal Air Force of Oman C-130 landing at Pisa

Last month we published a stunning image showing a Hellenic Air Force C-130 flying with another plane of the same type, wearing the typical camouflaged color scheme still used by many Greek planes....

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B-52 bombers flying deterrence missions “to show North Korea U.S. resolve to...

On Mar. 8, a B-52 bomber based at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, flew a mission over South Korea as part of Exercise Foal Eagle. Although Foal Eagle is an annual exercise involving U.S. and South...

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An unbelievable image proves the shape of the B-2 stealth bomber was...

There are pictures that don’t need comments. The following one (actually the one above in the composite image) appeared on Reddit hours ago and was posted on various Facebook pages thereafter. It shows...

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