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Insane flybys and crazy urban dogfights between F-15 and MiG-29 fighter jets: the South Korea’s version of "Top Gun"

Released on Aug. 15, "Retun to base" (R2B) is a brand new action movie about combat planes and fighter pilots. The movie (a remake of 1964 title "Red Scarf") is…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 24, 2012
Military Aviation

U.S. strategic bomber and tanker to be (temporarily) based in Australia. The first of a series of "future rotational deployments"

Few days after the Indonesian Sukhoi Su-30s made their first appearance at Royal Australian Air Force Base Darwin for Exercise Pitch Black, the base in Australia's Northern Territory will soon…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 23, 2012

Video: Danish F-16 buzzing Storebæltsbroen bridge as seen from the cockpit (from an unsual point of view)

The following cockpit footage filmed from a quite unusual point of view shows two Royal Danish Air Force F-16s (not literally "buzzing" but) overflying the Storebæltsbroen in Denmark on a…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 23, 2012
Military Aviation

An unusual visitor at Nellis Air Force Base: Obama’s Air Force One, world’s most heavily defended plane

Being the base of the Red Flag, Nellis Air Force Base, near Las Vegas, is used to host U.S. and foreign combat planes quite frequently. However, the Air Force One…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 22, 2012
Military Aviation

Another OEF rotation: 18 South Carolina Air National Guard F-16 fighter jets return from Afghanistan

Between Aug. 19 and 21, a total of 18 F-16CJs belonging to the 169th FW / 157th FS "Swamp Fox" of the South Carolina Air National Guard arrived in Morón, Spain on…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 22, 2012
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Israeli Air Force grounds its fleet of CH-53 Yasur helicopters

The Jerusalem Post reported that the Israeli Defense Force has grounded its entire fleet of Sikorsky CH-53 helicopters (thought to be between 25 - 38 aircraft) after one of them…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
August 22, 2012
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