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First impressive images of China’s Aircraft Carrier Battle Group
Images of China’s aircraft carrier and its accompanying warships were released by the PLAN (People’s Liberation Army Navy) to celebrate the battle group’s first successful deployment. Along with...
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Eighteen F-4E Phantom aircraft stage Elephant Walk in South Korea
Although not as numerous as some Elephant Walks we have seen in the last years (especially, the impressive one at Seymour Johnson AFB, featuring some 70 F-15Es) the one you can see in the image...
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How two F-14 Tomcats shot down two Gaddafi’s MiG-23s, 25 years ago today
After two F-14 Tomcats from the VF-41 Black Aces shot down two Su-22 Fitters on Aug. 19, 1981 and, above all, after Operation El Dorado Canyon, the air strike launched on Apr. 15 1986 against Libya,...
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Douglas C-47 Skytrain perfoms one of the lowest and craziest flybys ever
The following video shows a Douglas C-47 Skytrain (military version of the DC-3 Dakota) performing a low flyby “at a private air strip no one around for miles and there was no dogs cats are birds...
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Photo of India’s new Aircraft Carrier Battle Group. Better than China’s?
Few days ago we posted the first shot of China’s first Carrier Battle Group “built” around Liaoning aircraft carrier and characterized by many weaknesses. On Jan. 5, the Indian Navy released some shots...
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Watch this: amazing Post-Cold War low pass compilation
The following video shows several low passes performed by aircraft in service with the Polish Air Force. Footage was shot at Biała Podlaska airbase (in eastern Poland, near the boundary with Belarus)...
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Shocking footage shows plane crashing into the ground in Iceland
Released just a few hours ago, the following footage was recorded on Aug. 5, 2013. It shows a Beechcraft Super King Air 200, registered TF-MYX, an Air Ambulance flight operated by Air Myflug crashing...
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Iran’s mysterious military plane crashes that amount to “mass purges”
On Jan. 5, 1995 the entire senior commanders of the regular Iranian Air Force (HQ’s general staff) were killed in a suspicious plane crash near the city of Isfahan. Among the dead were several generals...
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Iraqi Army Special Ops Force Recruitment video feat. Mi-25 Gunship helicopters
Here’s an interesting recruitment video for the Iraqi Army SOF (Special Operation Force). Among the other things, it shows some Mi-25 Hind attack helicopters and some Mi-8/17 Hip choppers used to...
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Four dead as U.S. HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter crashes in UK
A RAF Lakenheath-based HH-60G Pave Hawk, a helicopter used for combat search and rescue, to recover downed aircrew or personnel in hostile environment at war, crashed off the north Norfolk coast. The...
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Three aircraft carriers, belonging to three different navies, work together
Even if this naval formation was only arranged for photographic purposes (as three such warships would be much more effective if operating at significant distance each other), the sight of three...
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Enjoy a Guided Tour Inside the E-4B NAOC Doomsday Plane
The E-4B is one of the so-called Doomsday planes. In the event of a nuclear war, a terrorist attack, an alien invasion or, generally speaking, Armageddon, the U.S. Air Force’s four E-4B planes based at...
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Low Level Flying with the Legendary SAAB J-37 Viggen in Sweden
Here’s an interesting video, showing the SAAB J-37 Viggen at work in Sweden some years ago. The footage brings you in the cockpit of the Swedish Air Force’s delta wing plane, at very low level, over...
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B-Roll of Navy Aircraft being departing and landing on a U.S. aircraft carrier
According to Wiki, a B-Roll “is the supplemental or alternate footage intercut with the main shot in an interview or documentary.” In this case, the alternate footage shows aircraft being launched and...
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Iraqi Air Force Combat Caravan planes Bomb Al-Qaeda Bases in Fallujah
In the last few days the Iraqi television aired footage showing the Iraqi Air Force bombing local Al Qaeda bases during counter-insurgency operation in Fallujah and Ramadi. Militants, in control of...
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B-2 Spirit stealth bomber burnt down in 2010 brought back to operative status
The U.S. Air Force has recently announced that the 4 year repair process of the B-2 Spirit of Washington has been completed. The plane burnt down back in February 2010 during a take-off from Andersen...
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Terryfing GoPro footage of Hawaiian plane crash from inside the cabin
Hopefully, this is the closest you’ll ever get to be aboard an aircraft crashing into the water. The dramatic video was filmed by Ferdinand Puentes, a passenger of a Cessna Grand Caravan plane that...
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50 years ago a B-52 lost its tail over New Mexico. But managed to land.
On Jan. 10, 1964, a B-52H flown by Boeing civilian test pilot Chuck Fisher and his three man crew lost its tail at about 14,000 ft over northern New Mexico’s Sangre de Christo Mountains. The aircraft...
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U.S. Coast Guard to get 14 C-27J planes the Air Force was about to mothball
U.S. Coast Guard finally got authorization to acquire the last 14 Alenia Aermacchi C-27J Spartan that the USAF was going to mothball, through an intra service transfer. Ever since the Air Force...
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Video Of Plane Crashing During Beach Take-Off Attempt in New Zealand
On Jan. 10, a Jabiru J200 microlight on its first flight, from Ardmore to Whangarei, since a new engine was installed, made a successfully landing on a beach after a faulty fuel valve caused the engine...
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