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Interesting photos from Iran’s latest war games
On Dec. 20, Iran’s air force started a military exercise in the Persian Gulf region. Codenamed Fadaian-e Harim-e Velayat 4 (Defenders of Velayat Sanctuary 4), was a two-day exercise part of annual...
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China’s Black Hawk helicopter clone makes first flight
On Dec. 23, at 14.11 Local Time, Chinese medium lift utility helicopter dubbed Z-20 made its first flight. As the image (published on a Chinese Internet website and then made available by Alert5)...
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Legendary U.S. Army Special Operations Force gets MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones
In May 2011, the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) used two stealthy MH-X “Silent Hawk” (or Stealth Black Hawk) to infiltrate and exfiltrate U.S. Navy SEALs during the Osama Bin...
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Alenia Aermacchi M-346 selected as Polish Air Force’s future Advanced Jet...
According to Finmeccanica, the Polish Ministry of Defense has chosen the Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master as the Advanced Jet Trainer for the Polish Air Force. The contract, worth 280 million Euro,...
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F-22 will provide targeting for submarine based Tomahawk cruise missiles
In an interview General Hawk Carlisle gave to Breaking Defense, the PACAF commander provided several interesting examples of how Pacific Defense is reshaping around capabilities becoming available...
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A Brief History of Pilots and Astronauts Wrist Watches
The pilot wrist watch is an instrument which has been present in the cockpit since the very beginning of aviation. The evolution of pilot watches shows aviation has always relied on cutting edge...
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New details about the epic B-52 mission to rescue a Cessna in Alaska
As we reported few weeks ago, on Nov. 10, two B-52s, launched from Minot and Barksdale AFB for a training mission, flew hundreds of miles off course to give assistance to a Cessna plane that had lost...
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[Photo] AB.212 Twin Huey helicopter winching training in Malta
Taken on Nov. 7 by The Aviationist’s contributor Estelle Calleja, the following images show winching training conducted by an Italian Air Force AB.212 (MM81158) at Melieha, in the nortwestern part of...
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Video shows Russian ICBM warheads hit targets on test range
Whereas the are plenty of videos showing Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) being launched, few of them depict warheads hitting their targets. That’s why this video is particularly...
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Year 2013 in review through The Aviationist’s Top 5 articles
The five top stories of The Aviationist provide the readers the opportunity to virtually review the year that is coming to an end. Ordered chronologically, these posts got the most pageviews (out of...
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Stunning GoPro video of what passengers don’t see when flying an Airbus 340
Shot with GoPro cameras attached to Air Tahiti Nui‘s Airbus 340, the following footage is particularly interesting as it shows ground and air ops around the wide body from several points of view during...
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There is an Air War still going on in Syria
Syrian Arab Air Force bombers are constantly pounding rebel forces across Syria. Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer, Mig-29 Fulcrum and Mig-23 Flogger bombers are those most frequently depicted in footage emerging on...
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Impressive: F/A-18 Hornet jets recovering on aircraft carrier in bad weather
This video was recorded on USS Theodore Roosevelt on Sept. 14, 2003. The flattop found itself in a extremely bad weather and heavy rainfall in the middle of a recovery: sevaral planes had to land but...
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Pentagon’s vision of future of military drones takes “man” out of “unmanned”
According to the roadmap just published, in the next 25 years Pentagon aims at fielding military unmanned systems that will be autonomous and able to perceive, analyzw, correlate and make decisions or...
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Inverted over the enemy: Mirage 2000 intercepts F-16 upside down
The first thing the image in this post reminded us is the famous scene of Top Gun (when Maverick turns its F-14 Tomcat upside down to give the finger to a Soviet Mig pilot) and the subsequent talk with...
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This photo of AH-64 Apache helicopter salvoing flares in the dark is one of...
Known as “Peten” (“Cobra” in Hebrew) in the Israeli Air Force, the Boeing AH-64A is an attack helicopter that Israel has extensively used in combat since 1990s. Involved in Lebanon and, more recently,...
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Heavy Metal: last missions of the AC-130H Spectre gunship over Afghanistan
According to the U.S. Air Force Central Command, the one below has been their viewer’s favorite in 2013. It shows the last days of the AC-130H Spectre gunship in its last combat deployment with the...
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Airbus A400M tactical airlifter makes combat debut in Mali
Released by the Armée de l’Air (French Air Force) these images show the Airbus A400M Atlas tactical airlifter during its first combat sortie in support to Operation Serval in Mali. The Atlas “F-RBAB”...
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A-10, C-130 and F-16 aircraft under snowstorm at Bagram airfield, Afghanistan
First measurable snow of the 2013-2014 winter covered the U.S. aircraft based at Bagram airfield, in Afghanistan on Dec. 29, 2013. Snow accumulated on A-10s, C-130s , C-17s, and F-16s but the snowstorm...
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A scene never to be repeated again: a sky filled with black stealth fighter jets
On Oct. 27, 2006, twenty-five Lockheed F-117A stealth jets flew over Heritage Park at Holloman Air Force Base during the Silver Stealth event for the F-117′s 25th anniversary. 59 production...
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