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Crazy video from inside an unmanned F-16 during a supersonic test flight

Here's a really interesting video. It shows the QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target's first flight on Sept. 19 from Tyndall Air Force base in Florida from a quite unusual perspective:…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 23, 2013
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[Photo] First pilotless F-16 flies first remotely controlled mission at Tyndall Air Force Base

The first unmanned QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target flew on Sept. 19 at Tyndall Air Force base in Florida, demonstrating the next generation of combat training and testing. The aircraft…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 23, 2013
Russia

[Photo] Eight Russian combat planes skirted Estonian airspace on their way to huge Zapad 2013 exercise

According to the Eastonian newspaper Eesti Päevaleht eight Russian Air Force planes flew close (or at least closer than usual) to the Estonia's airspace on Sept. 16, 2013. The aircraft…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 23, 2013
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Iran will soon display upgraded copy of the captured U.S. stealth RQ-170 drone

In February 2013, a video, aired by an Iranian TV proved that Iran had accessed some of the data stored inside the U.S. stealthy RQ-170 drone captured in December 2011.…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 23, 2013
Iran

Iran’s Air Defense Force Displays Indigenous Radar System Capable to Detect Stealth Aircraft

On Sunday Sept. 22, 2013, during the annual military parade in Tehran that marks the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, Iran displayed a new indigenous passive…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 22, 2013
Russia

“Immense” Russian – Belarusian military exercise (possibly focused on neutralizing an ethnic unrest) taking place in eastern Europe

Named Zapad-2013, an exercise whose aims to strenghten the regional safety and relations between Belarus and Russia is taking place between Sept. 20 and 26 in Eastern Europe. The scale…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
September 22, 2013
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