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Military Aviation

How two U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcats shot down two Libyan Su-22 Fitters On This Day In 1981

The legendary F-14 Tomcat's first victory in air-to-air combat. Aug. 19 is an important date for the Tomcat community, because on this day in 1981 US Navy F-14s were involved…

Dario Leone Dario Leone
August 19, 2013
Syria

Syrian Air Force MiG-21 fighter jet flying over Damascus

If Mil Mi-8/17 Hip and Mil Mi-25 Hind gunship helicopters, L-39 combat trainers, MiG-23 fighter bombers were the assets most frequently employed against the rebels since the beginning of the uprising,…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 18, 2013
Military Aviation

This is not a flying saucer but a CV-22 tilt-rotor aircraft at night

With CV-22s recently joining the U.S. Special Operations Forces in the UK, British aircraft enthusiasts and spotters will quickly get used to something common people may not immediately recognise: the…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 16, 2013
Aviation

Watch these rare photos of NASA’s white B-52H Stratofortress refueling from an Air Force tanker

NASA's Dryden Research Center operated a B-52H as an air launch platform for advanced aerospace research vehicles. The mothership plane, a former Air Force bird serialled 61-0025, was based at…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 16, 2013
North Korea

This is the first image of a North Korean militarized, camouflaged Il-76 cargo plane

It looks like some of North Korea's Il-76 cargo planes have been militarized and given an interesting camouflaged color scheme. The image showing the Il-76TD the military camo (the first…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 14, 2013
Military Aviation

Watch this: GoPro video shows the point of view from the retractable ball turret of a WWII B-24 heavy bomber

After watching the awesome clip of a Lancaster flying over London, many readers have sent links to other footage worth a look. For instance, the extremely interesting video in this…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 13, 2013
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