David Cenciotti is a freelance journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written four books.
NATO Tiger Meet is an annual exercise that gathers squadrons sporting Tiger (or feline) emblems. Planes that attend it, usually get painted in tiger outfits. As happened during 2014 edition in Germany. NATO Tiger Meet […]
Pretty impressive. The following video was filmed from aboard the NF-5A #3 of the Turkish Stars (Turkish: Türk Yıldızları), the aerobatic demonstration team of the Turkish Air Force during an airshow. The footage includes captions […]
Actual flight time to an altitude of about 4 km: 20 seconds The following video was filmed from inside the cockpit of a Pakistan Air Force F-16 BM Block 15 belonging to 11 th Squadron […]
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Not good, one serious strafing run could wipeout half there airforce :(
Western countries have forgotten how to fight serious wars. Sad, but true.
Just need 1 Spitfire to axe 30 F-16’s…
For that they would need to first enter Turkish Air Space. Secondly, at any one stage there are 60 Turkish Vipers and several AWACS aircraft monitoring the Air Space above these bases. I have not even included number of SHORADS in the area. Also the Aircraft are not stationed there but preparing for take-off. Otherwise they are stored in their Concrete bunkers around the Runway.
Not good, one serious strafing run could wipeout half there airforce :(
Western countries have forgotten how to fight serious wars. Sad, but true.
Just need 1 Spitfire to axe 30 F-16’s…
For that they would need to first enter Turkish Air Space. Secondly, at any one stage there are 60 Turkish Vipers and several AWACS aircraft monitoring the Air Space above these bases. I have not even included number of SHORADS in the area. Also the Aircraft are not stationed there but preparing for take-off. Otherwise they are stored in their Concrete bunkers around the Runway.
A-10 Thunderbolt would have a great day!
33 in total, including 5 Dutch and 5 Paki’s. At the end a few AMX aircraft can be seen. Photo is from 2004 and taken during Anatolian Eagle exercise. Nowadays Turkish F-5s sit here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/8299174285/in/photostream
I think those are F-16 A/B not C. The one in the front is B and almost all the others are A. They don’t have the avionics
hump that C/D have.