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North Korea

This is the first image of a North Korean militarized, camouflaged Il-76 cargo plane

It looks like some of North Korea's Il-76 cargo planes have been militarized and given an interesting camouflaged color scheme. The image showing the Il-76TD the military camo (the first…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 14, 2013
Military Aviation

Watch this: GoPro video shows the point of view from the retractable ball turret of a WWII B-24 heavy bomber

After watching the awesome clip of a Lancaster flying over London, many readers have sent links to other footage worth a look. For instance, the extremely interesting video in this…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 13, 2013
Aircraft Carriers

This is how Japanese see their future air war against China over Senkaku Islands. With new stealth planes

Even if they are promotional material aimed to support a recently released book, the videos in this post are particularly interesting as they show how the Japanese see their future…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
August 12, 2013
Military Aviation

Italian Navy AV-8B+ Harrier jump jets air-to-air training

On Jul. 8, 2013, the Italian Navy I GrupAer based at Grottaglie, started a new air-to-air training campaign at the AWTI (Air Weapons Training Installation) of Decimomannu airbase, Italy. During…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 11, 2013
Helicopters

Amazing Mil Mi-24 Hind gunship air-to-air photoshoot

It was this July that Filip Modrzejewski and Wojciech Mazurkiewicz, thanks to the support of the Polish Army Command and 1st Army Aviation Brigade and 56 Inowroclaw AB, took these…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
August 10, 2013
Aviation

Watch this: Superscooper plane water bombing a truck

Canadair CL-415 water bomber aircraft are not only used to support ground firefighting activities in case of forest fires. The "Superscooper" planes can be extremely useful when you need to…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 10, 2013
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