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Japan accuses Russia: “two Tu-95 bombers have violated our airspace”
According to a report written by Reuters two Russian bombers briefly entered Japan’s air space near its major southern island of Kyushu on Thursday 22 August. The two Tu-95 spent no more than 2 minutes...
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How low can you go with an F/A-18 Hornet?
Aircrew from VMFA(AW)-242, Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 242, Marine Aircraft Group 12, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, are currently deployed to Royal Australian Air Force Base Tindal,...
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Cold War planes (including some special colors) to star at Radom Air Show in...
One of the biggest Air Shows in the Mid-Eastern part of Europe will take place on Aug. 24 and 25 at Radom, central Poland. The Radom Air Show offers a rare occasion to see several Cold War planes (as...
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Another Super Puma Helicopter crashes into sea off Scotland. Previous ban on...
Another Super Puma helicopter has crashed into the sea off the Scottish coast, again ferrying oil workers from the North Sea oil rigs to dry land. The helicopter came dowm 2 miles short of the airfield...
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Should the US get involved in Syria it will be a cruise missiles and stealth...
Forget F-15E Strike Eagles and F/A-18E Super Hornets carrying PGMs (Precision Guided Munitions). Should Washington really get involved in Syria, it will probably be a limited air war, mainly made of...
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Extremely rare video shows Gaddafi’s Air Force aerial refueling trials (and...
The following footage shows Mirage F1ADs and Mig-23s refueling from Il-76T and C-130s during trials reportedly conducted between the end of the 1980s and 1994. Noteworthy, at min 04:19 you can see a...
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Wanna know if a strike on Syria is about to take place? Look for this large...
Whereas some media outlets are trying to find signs of an imminent air strike on Syria in some alleged (and unconfirmed) unusual movements in the UK base in Cyprus (Akrotiri) that probably have nothing...
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Photo shows U.S. E-4B doomsday plane on the ground at Incirlik, Turkey
Everybody know E-4Bs are extremely important. In the event of a war, a terrorist attack, an alien invasion and so on (hence the “doomsday plane” nickname), these aircraft are destined to keep the...
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Russia’s Emergencies Ministry’s evacuation plane just made a quick stop in Syria
Russia is evacuating nationals from Syria in anticipation of a U.S. strike on Damascus’s Chemical Weapons arsenal. An Il-62 registered RA-86570 and belonging to the Russian Ministry for Emergency...
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A Cyber attack by Syrian Electronic Army may be Assad’s most dangerous...
Considered the current status of the Syrian military, whose capabilities have been consumed by a couple of years of war against the rebels of the Free Syrian Army, a series of cyber attacks by the...
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U.S. WC-135C nuclear radiation sniffing plane spotted over Europe. En-route...
During the early hours on Aug. 28, a WC-135C was spotted just to the South of the UK. The aircraft was being refueled by a KC-135 tanker launched from RAF Mildenhall which met the “Sniffer” maybe out...
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The most stunning views of Polar region you might ever get: NASA Ice Bridge 2013
The following video, shot from a cockpit of a NASA P-3B aircraft shows stunning shots from the Polar regions. It is the NASA operation under a name of Ice Bridge, that allows the pilots to admire these...
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Six RAF Typhoon fighter jets leave UK for Cyprus. Four of them deploying...
News agencies are reporting that six Typhoon aircraft are being deployed to RAF Akritiri on the island of Cyprus only 120 miles off the Syrian coast. The British Ministry of Defense released the...
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Some of the most interesting “hardware” showcased at this year’s Radom Air...
On Aug. 24. and 25 Radom Sadków Airfield in south-central Poland hosted one of the largest air shows in Eastern Europe. This year’s Radom Air Show was somehow unique, as it marked the 95th anniversary...
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Two U-2s touch down in Cyprus: U.S. moving spyplanes closer to Syria
Journalist Andrew Potter based near the British air base at Akrotiri, Cyprus, reported (via Twitter) that two U-2 spyplanes arrived there in the afternoon of Aug. 29. One U-2 had left RAF Fairford...
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Turkish airbase has just raised its alert status for a possible attack from...
Diyarbakir airbase, one of the most important airbases in Turkey, located in the southeastern part of the country, is on alert status today for a possible Syrian attack. Tolga Ozbek, aviation editor of...
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Stunning video shows C-130 pilot’s view of the California’s Rim Fire
Recorded from the cockpit of a 146th Airlift Wing’s C-130J on Aug. 22, 2013, at 5.50PM, the following video provides a stunning view of California’s Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park from the...
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Declassified Top Secret: SR-71 Blackbird Mission Over the Middle East
The following story, that has been circulating on mailing lists and forums for a few days, recalls secret mission by a U.S. Air Force SR-71 during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. It was written by Col. Jim...
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Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets over Jakarta: some images of the impressive...
On Aug. 17, the Indonesian Air Force staged an interesting flypast over Jakarta to celebrate the 68th anniversary of Indonesia’s independence. Eight Su-27/30 fighter jets belonging to the 11 Sqn...
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France deploys spyplanes to Cyprus to monitor Assad’s next move
As happened in 2011, in the weeks that preceded the kick off of Operation Odyssey Dawn against Gaddafi, airborne surveillance platforms are amassing around Syria. According to Air Cosmos, two French...
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