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Iraq’s brand new F-16 Block 52 makes first flight in weird, exotic camouflage...

Iraqi Air Force’s first F-16 Block 52 made its maiden flight from Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth, Texas, assembly plant in a weird camouflaged color scheme. On May 2, the first of 36 ordered Lockheed...

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Rare insight into Moroccan F-16C/D Block 52+ jets operations

Royal Moroccan Air Force F-16 jets as you have never seen them before. The following interesting footage, brought to us by Farmorocco page, provides an interesting as well as rare insight into RMAF F16...

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Incredible F-16 jet pilot’s selfie

What a selfie from the cockpit of Solo Türk, the Turkish Air Force’s F-16 solo aerobatics display team. Here’s another interesting self-portrait shot by the Solo Türk of the Turkish Air Force with a...

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(Fake) Video shows triangular shaped aircraft attack Taliban camp in Afghanistan

A mysterious triangular shaped airborne object attacks Taliban camp in a video allegedly filmed by U.S. Marines. Genuine or fake? Fake. The following footage was allegedly filmed in Afghanistan by U.S....

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Here’s the latest ultra-low level Russian Su-24 Fencer flyby

Two Su-24MR Fencer jets perform an ultra-low level flyby on an unknown base in Russia. Here’s the latest stunt by two Russian Air Force Su-24s that buzz other planes, people at an unknown base...

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Airliner and Russian spyplane nearly collide off Sweden

A SAS Boeing 737 had to change its course at the last moment not to collide with a Russian Il-20 off Malmö, Sweden. Even if the news was only recently made public, a SAS flight SK 681, a Boeing 737...

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Impressive: Pilot’s view of Wizz Air’s Airbus 320 low pass over the Danube

You can’t fly lower than this over downtown Budapest with an Airbus 320. On May 1, a Wizz Air’s Airbus 320 performed a low pass over downtown Budapest during the airshow. This video will bring you in...

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Poland loses a drone during artillery drills and no one has a clue where it is

A mini unmmaned aerial vehicle, did not reach the desired landing zone during artillery drills. And  disappeared. The Flyeye drone has lost contact with the ground operator on May 7, near Torun,...

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Don’t worry, the Poles have recovered their drone lost during artillery drills

The Polish soldiers have recovered the lost drone. The Flyeye mini-UAV(unmanned aerial vehicle) lost on May 7, near Torun, was eventually found about 25 km southwest of the artillery range where it was...

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Awesome Footage Brings You Aboard a Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker During Air Show over...

The Victory Day Air Show over Sevastopol, Crimea, as seen from inside the Russian Air Force’s “Kubinka Diamond”, the aerobatic team made of  Su-27 Flanker and Mig-29 Fulcrum jets. On May 9, Russia...

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Iran unveils reverse-engineered version of captured U.S. RQ-170 stealth drone

Tehran has just unveiled an indigenous version of the US RQ-170 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) captured in December 2011. During a ceremony held at Tehran on May 11, Iran unveiled an RQ-170 drone...

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[Video] Here’s What It’s Like Being On The Receiving End Of A MiG-21′s bomb...

Rule: if you see a Syrian warplane maneuver to drop a bomb on you, you better run! Do you remember the video showing a Syrian Mig-29 strafe the cameraman who was filming the Fulcrum in Syria? Here’s...

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Two unknown F-14 Tomcat wing sweep stories to celebrate Top Gun Day

May 13 is Top Gun Day. Let’s celebrate it with two unknown Tomcat stories told by the former F-14 Tomcat RIO Dave “Bio” Baranek. Developed in the late 1960s as a multi-mission fighter, the F-14...

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Russian Su-24 Fencer ultra low flyby on highway as seen from the cockpit

Russian Air Force Su-24 pilots like low level flying. And here’s a video that shows one of their treetop altitude missions from inside the cockpit. Here’s the latest footage coming from Russia showing...

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Russian Tu-95 Bomber Launches Six Cruise Missiles during Exercise

Russian Air Force Tu-95 not only fly long range missions acros the world, they also fire cruise missiles. In the last weeks, we reported the news that Russian Tu-95 bombers had skirted UK airspace and...

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Rare footage about current North Korean Air Force. Featuring Mig-29s, Su-25s,...

Here is a 21-minute video about Korean People’s Air Force (KPAF) air-to-ground inter-unit competition. Even if it may seem a documentary produced in the 1970s, the following is an interesting footage...

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Incredible video from the receiving end of a DC-10 Supertanker’s fire...

DC-10 Supertanker dropping fire retardant as seen from the fire point of view…. KUSI photojournalist Taylor Schuss filmed the DC10 Air Tanker (unofficially dubbed “Supertanker”) fighting the Cocos Fire...

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[Photo] All three F-35 variants fly together for the first time

F-35A, F-35B and F-35C Joint Strike Fighters flying together. A nice photo lets you compare the shape and size of the three variants of the F-35 Lightining II multi-role aircraft flying together for...

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Polish Air Force Mig-29 and Royal Air Force Typhoon jets on Baltic Alert

Polish Fulcrums and British Eurofighter Typhoons provide Baltic Air Policing from Lithuania. The RAF and the Polish Air Force have taken over the four-month rotation of Baltic Air Policing since the...

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Army Air Force Video explains how to evade Flak (anti-aircraft fire) in WWII

Over Germany, Italy, Japan, “Flak” (anti-aircraft gun) was, along with enemy fighters, the main threat to Allied bombers. An Army Air Force training film explains FlaK (from the German word for...

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