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Military Aviation

[Photo] The most stunning images of RAF Photographic Competition 2013

The Royal Air Force held its annual Photographic Competition last month. The photos were amazing, most of them can be seen and downloaded in extremely high resolutions here. We have…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
November 4, 2013
Iran

Iranian F-14 Tomcat crashed last year mistakenly downed by Iranian Air Defense?

In the early morning hours of Jan. 26, 2012, an Iranian F-14A (serial 3-6062 that can be seen here) was scrambled to intercept a 'UFO' near the port city of…

Winston Smith Winston Smith
November 4, 2013
Military Aviation

USAF planning to develop new means of nuclear deterrence

U.S. Air Force plans to modernize its nuclear deterrence capabilities. According to the philosophy of the USAF, there is a great need to possess all kinds of weapons and as…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
November 3, 2013
Military Aviation

Declassified documents of MiG fighter jets testing activity at Area 51 available for download

In the late 1960s, CIA, U.S. Air Force, Navy and several other agencies were involved in highly classified programs whose purpose was to evaluate MiG fighter jets and study the…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 2, 2013
Helicopters

Stunning GoPro video shows Marines helicopter underwater escape training

U.S. Marines must be ready to face any emergency situation and be capable to egress a helicopter, upside down, underwater. For underwater escape training, a system dubbed "helo dunker" is…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 2, 2013
Military Aviation

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works reveals a Mach 6 strike successor of SR-71 Blackbird dubbed SR-72

It looks like Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, the legendary division that designed airplanes which represented a giant leap for their times such as the F-104, the U-2, the Blackbird family…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 1, 2013
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