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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
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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
Military Aviation

Italian Typhoons train with Bulgarian Mig-29s. Will Eurofighters replace local Fulcrums?

For two days, beginning on Oct. 21, two Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets belonging to the Italian Air Force deployed for the first time ever to Graf Ignatievo in Bulgaria. Belonging…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 1, 2013
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[Video] This is what being in the trajectory of a bomb dropped by a Syrian attack plane looks like

In a previous post we have seen a cameraman receiving a direct hit from a tank shell. Even if this is less spectacular so to say, this video is interesting…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 31, 2013
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