David Cenciotti is a 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 five books and contributed to many more ones.
Even if WVR (Within Visual Range) contests made famous by Top Gun movie, are still the most exciting (and disputed….) part of a combat pilot’s training, future wars’ most likely scenarios are those played on […]
The Bulgarian Air Force will replace its MiG-29s with Block 70 Vipers. As the U.S. DoD’s release states, Lockheed Martin has been awarded a 512M USD contract, for the production of eight F-16 Block 70 […]
More F-16 Vipers could be ordered together with F-15EXs, attritable aircraft and NGAD to replace older aircraft until enough F-35s are available. Almost 16 years after the last delivery, the U.S. Air Force is now […]
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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/37219510@N02/8299174285/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.