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Military Aviation

F-22 Raptor stealth fighter’s advanced helmet axed by sequestration cuts

Last month we praised the decision by the U.S. Air Force to give a modern Helmet-mounted cueing system to the F-22 Raptor pilots. In fact, the fifth generation fighter plane…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 12, 2013
Military Aviation

Harrier: The Story Of The “Jump Jet” That Helped Margaret Thatcher Win The Falklands War

The Sea Harrier was crucial to the UK in the 1982 Air War in South America. One cannot speak of Margaret Thatcher, who passed away on Apr. 8, 2013, without…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
April 11, 2013
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North Korean Musudan Missiles ready to launch. Huge U.S. Sea-based X-band Radar in place.

Several news agencies are quoting the Japanese Kyodo by saying that one of the Musudan missile launch vehicles has moved its missile into the firing position. The North Korean authorities…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
April 11, 2013
Military Aviation

All the intelligence gathering planes spying on North Korea’s imminent missile launch

Update Apr. 11 10.00GMT According to US and South Korea intelligence, since Apr. 10 North Korea is ready to launch one or two BM25 Musudan mobile intermediate-range ballistic missiles "at…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 11, 2013
Military Aviation

The B-1 bombers allegedly deploying to Guam were staging a mock trans-Pacific deterrence mission?

Last week we reported about the alleged deployment of seven B-1B strategic bombers to Guam exposed by the radio comms in the clear intercepted by an airband listener. Around  09.00…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 10, 2013
Military Aviation

Air Combat Maneuvering over the Pacific. F-15 Eagle-style

Last year, we published a video recorded and edited by the 67th FS "Fighting Cocks", from Kadena airbase, to commemorate the winning of the 2011 Raytheon Trophy, a trophy that…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 9, 2013
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