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[Video] B-2 stealth bomber out of Guam refuels over the Pacific

The following interesting video depicts a B-2 stealth bomber from the 509th Bomb Wing, at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, being refueled in-flight by a KC-135 on Jan. 23, 2013, over the Pacific...

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U.S. amassing B-1 strategic bombers near North Korea

It seems like Washington has taken Kim Jong Un threat seriously. After moving two Langley’s F-22 Raptor stealth fighters to Osan airbase, in South Korea, launching a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber on a...

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Drones over Poland – Cold War going on?

Poland is to be involved in the NATO Alliance Ground Surveilance programme, aim of which is to watch over the ground objects and movement of the ground forces beyond the Polish border (supposedly...

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How the U.S. Navy and Air Force will Watch North Korea’s Next Missile Launch

As tensions continue to rise on the Korean Peninsula, the U.S. Navy and Air Force are ready to watch upcoming missile launches. The two services use a variety of ground based, sea-going, and aerial...

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U.S. Air Force says B-1s were not deployed to Guam. So, where did five big...

It looks like the B-1Bs strategic bombers heard last week by milair monitoring expert Steve Douglass did not deploy to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. A couple of nights ago, from his monitoring station...

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[Artwork] B-2 Spirit stealth bomber nuclear attack on North Korea

The following artwork was prepared by Al Clark. It shows, in quite a realistic way, an extremely unlikely nuclear attack on Pyongyang, North Korea, by a U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit. As happened in the...

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Two former Skunk Works members seem to know why the F-35 program is a mess

Among the contents of the November 2012 issue of Classic Aircraft (a magazine that since Jan. 2013 has been incorporated into its sister magazine Aviation News), an interesting article written by Angus...

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Video shows what a Boeing 787 Dreamliner can do in the hands of an F-18...

The following video, put under the spotlight by an article by the Daily Mail, shows what a Boeing 787 Dreamliner can do if given to a former F-18 fighter jock. The footage was filmed during an amazing...

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The U.S. Air Force as you know it no longer exists: beginning today, 17...

According to internal documents obtained by Air Force Times, beginning on Apr. 9, 2013, the U.S. Air Force will begin grounding front line combat units as a consequence of sequestration and the need to...

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Air Combat Maneuvering over the Pacific. F-15 Eagle-style

Last year, we published a video recorded and edited by the 67th FS “Fighting Cocks”, from Kadena airbase, to commemorate the winning of the 2011 Raytheon Trophy, a trophy that is given to the top...

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The B-1 bombers allegedly deploying to Guam were staging a mock trans-Pacific...

Last week we reported about the alleged deployment of seven B-1B strategic bombers to Guam exposed by the radio comms in the clear intercepted by an airband listener. Around  09.00 pm CDT (GMT -5) on...

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All the intelligence gathering planes spying on North Korea’s imminent...

According to US and South Korea intelligence, since Apr. 10 North Korea is ready to launch one or two BM25 Musudan mobile intermediate-range ballistic missiles “at any time.” There are also significant...

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North Korean Musudan Missiles ready to launch. Huge U.S. Sea-based X-band...

Several news agencies are quoting the Japanese Kyodo by saying that one of the Musudan missile launch vehicles has moved its missile into the firing position. The North Korean authorities had moved...

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Harrier: the story of the “Jump Jet” fighter jet that helped Margaret...

One cannot speak of Margaret Thatcher, who passed away on Apr. 8, 2013, without mentioning the 1982 Falklands – Malvinas a war, a conflict that the UK was able to win thanks to a revolutionary...

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F-22 Raptor stealth fighter’s advanced helmet axed by sequestration cuts

Last month we praised the decision by the U.S. Air Force to give a modern Helmet-mounted cueing system to the F-22 Raptor pilots. In fact, the fifth generation fighter plane was (actually, still is)...

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Here’s Russia’s (badass) next-generation stealth strategic bomber

This last week has been pretty hectic in terms of next generation concepts: Boeing unveiled the updated version of the F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter concept, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk  Works released a...

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This is as close to flying a MiG-29 as you can get without actually flying it!

Here are two videos showing a transfer and operations of Polish MiG-29′s during the Baltic Air Policing mission which is a NATO initiative of conducting air monitoring of the Baltic region. I suppose...

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Russia working on a new long range interceptor to replace the Mig-31 Foxhound

During Lt. Gen. Viktor Bondarev’s conference, during which information on PAK-DA bomber was relased to the public, the Air Force Commander also mentioned that Russia has started working on MiG-31...

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Weather will not affect North Korea’s missile launch if Pyongyang decides to...

Although they have already begun celebrating it in the past few days, North Koreans consider April 15,  birthday of Kim’s grandfather, Kim Il Sung, the most important of national holidays. This year,...

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North Korean propaganda video shows nuclear attack on the United States

Even if it is not believed to be able to conduct such a daring attack (as it neither owns missiles capable to reach Continental U.S.), North Korea believes it can use nuclear weapons to hit Washington...

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