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.
On the ItalianVipers forum there was an interesting discussion following a video found on Youtube showing a flight of 3 F-16s of the 23rd Gruppo, performing an Immelmann after take-off from Cervia. I suggest you reading the discussion here: http://www.italianvipers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2304 […]
Here are the pictures that Giovanni Maduli took on May 22 during the first wave of arrivals to the Giornata Azzurra and on May 26 during the departures. Noteworthy, the interesting picture of the ASK21 […]
JASDF Fighter carries a name that is a combination of the unofficial nickname of the F-16 (“Viper”) and the well-known Mitsubishi A6M Zero. At the beginning of the 1980s, the Japanese Air Self-Defence Force (JASDF) […]
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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.