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Military Aviation

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…

Dario Leone Dario Leone
May 13, 2014
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[Video] Here’s What It’s Like Being On The Receiving End Of A MiG-21’s bomb in Syria

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…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 12, 2014
Captured Stealth Drone

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…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 11, 2014
Military Aviation

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

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…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 11, 2014
Drones

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…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
May 10, 2014
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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,…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
May 10, 2014
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