UK hosts largest tactically focused military exercise in Europe: Joint Warrior 2013
Held twice each year in the Scottish Exercise Areas, Joint Warrior is a large exercise that sees the participation of assets from all three UK armed services as well as…
Broken Arrow: When U.S. B-52s Lost Their Nuclear Weapons During Cold War
Two Broken Arrow incidents involved the B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber fleet. Back in 1955, when it entered the operational service with the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC), the…
Join a Marines “Jump Jet” on a flight over the Mediterranean sea off USS Kearsarge
Take a seat and watch the following interesting video. It shows Capt. David Neely, an AV-8B Harrier Pilot assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 266 (Reinforced), 26th Marine Expeditionary…
Meanwhile, in Guam: B-52 bomber is loaded with (dummy) Air-Launched Cruise Missiles
The following images show airmen from the 36th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, deployed from the 23rd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Unit, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, preparing a dummy AGM-86C…
This rocket-like plane could have been the SR-71 Blackbird replacement
The following image, published by Code One on its Facebook page, shows configuration SA-2S, an SR-71 Blackbird replacement concept that was studied by Convair in the early '60s. According to…
Russian Tu-22M Backfire bombers escorted by Su-27 Flankers simulate night attack on Sweden.
Erik Arnberg, a reader of The Aviationist, brought to my attention an episode that occurred on the night of Mar. 29, 2013, when Russian military aircraft simulated a large scale…
