Dacian Viper 2014: six U.S. F-16 combat planes deployed to Romania
Six U.S. Air Force F-16s have deployed to the 71st Air Base in Campia Turzii, Romania, to train with the local based Mig-21 Lancer jets (and strengthen Washington’s presence at the gates of Ukraine.)...
View ArticleStunning video of machine guns shooting at target drones shows how difficult...
This video shows how difficult shooting down a small UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) can be. Along with larger UAVs, armed forces around the world also employ several types of smaller remotely piloted...
View ArticleRussian Su-24 Fencer attack plane performs multiple passes near U.S. warship...
A Russian attack plane performed multiple passes near an American warship in the Black Sea. The aircraft, reportedly a Russian Air Force Su-24 Fencer, flew within 1,000 yards of the USS Donald Cook,...
View ArticleEurope’s largest military exercise marks first deployment of USN patrol...
UK Armed Forces and several partner nations arms battled each other in the air, at sea and on land in Europe’s largest military exercise this year. From Mar. 31 to Apr. 12, Joint Warrior 14-1 saw over...
View ArticleA quick look at Aviano airbase’s F-16 Fighting Falcon multirole jets
Based at Aviano airbase, in northeast Italy, the 31st Fighter Wing mobilized its squadrons deploying their F-16s to Poland in response to Ukrainian Crisis. “The noise you hear is the sound of freedom”....
View ArticleUkrainian Su-27 Flanker reportedly shot down during special operation against...
One Su-27 Flanker aircraft supporting a special operation to regain control on a military airfield taken from pro-Moscow separatists was reportedly shot down. On Apr. 15, Ukrainian armed forces...
View ArticleSelfie of Chinese Pilot as his J-15 naval fighter plane launches from China’s...
It looks like Chinese pilots like self-portrait photos as their “Western” colleagues We have already published an interesting “selfie” (as self-potrait shots are dubbed) taken by a PLANAF (People...
View ArticleUkrainian Mig-29 Fulcrum (in display team livery) performs low pass over...
Ukrainian Air Force once again active in the eastern Russian-speaking part of the country. With Mig-29 Fulcrum aircraft still wearing the national display team color scheme. A weird show of force was...
View ArticleRussian tug off Florida: supporting nuclear attack subs or observing SpaceX...
A Russian tug has been operating off Florida for some weeks. What is it doing over so far from home? The Russian tug “Nikolay Chiker” is an ocean tag that has often deployed alongside Russian Navy’s...
View ArticleB-2 Spirit or new Mysterious Stealth Plane? New image of triangular shaped...
A new image taken in February seems to show the same mysterious plane photographed over Texas last month. On Mar. 10, 2014 Steve Douglass and Dean Muskett took the famous photographs of three...
View ArticleAnother insane Russian helicopter low altitude flyby
A Russian combat helicopter performs an impressive, quite dangerous, low pass. Few days ago, we published an article about the fully armed Ukrainian Air Force Mig-29 performing an impressive and...
View ArticleRoyal Netherlands Air Force F-16 demo team’s inverted selfie
Once again a cool selfie taken from the cockpit of an F-16 Fighting Falcon. The latest example of self-portrait photo most probably taken with a GoPro camera from the cockpit of an F-16 comes from the...
View ArticleIran stages “massive” aerial parade with F-14, F-4, Mig-29 and several other...
The traditional military parades at mausoleum of the Late Founder of Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, south of capital Tehran saw the flyover of several warplanes, including the legendary F-14 Tomcat....
View Article[Photo] 24 U.S. Apache attack helicopters perform mass landing in South Korea
A horde of AH-64 Apache: that’s a show of force! The image in this post shows 24 AH-64D Longbow Apache attack helicopters with the 4th Aerial Reconnaissance Battalion (Attack), 2nd Aviation Regiment,...
View ArticleThe crazy story of the Nigerian Air Force C-130H Hercules’s flight to...
The Nigerian C-130H-30 that had arrived at Cambridge in August 2011, was eventually air tested. Here is its weird story. On Apr. 16, Nigerian Air Force C-130H-30, registration NAF918, conducted a test...
View ArticleEurofighter Typhoon with conformal fuel tanks
A Typhoon model fitted with conformal fuel tanks CFTs (Conformal Fuel Tanks) have always been one of the features Eurofighter was thinking about since the Typhoon was pitched for the Indian MMRCA...
View ArticleDanish F-16 jets filmed on the firing range hit their own camera
This is not covered by warranty. Royal Danish Air Force personnel love to film their F-16s using air-to-air and air-to-surface armament. A GoPro screenshot of a RDAF pilot firing an AIM-9 Sidewinder...
View ArticleNot one but two different triangular mystery jets are being secretely flown...
Texas and Kansas sightings have unveiled two different Black Projects. As we have already reported here, on Mar. 10, 2014 Steve Douglass and Dean Muskett took the photographs of three mysterious planes...
View ArticleChinese Navy’s 65th Anniversary Video looks like Beijing’s Top Gun remake
China’s aircraft carrier Liaoning and its J-15s are the protagonists of a celebratory Top Gun-type video. In order to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the People Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), Chinese...
View ArticleRussian aircraft carrier still in the Mediterranean Sea. NATO planes watch...
Aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is still in the Mediterranean where it operates watched closely by NATO E-3 AWACS. Even if it has reportedly ended its mission and headed for Severomorsk, Russia’s...
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