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Amazing St. Maarten-like photo of a B-2 stealth bomber landing in Guam. Ops, it’s Diego Garcia.

Update Mar. 4, 2013, 19.20 GMT Princess Juliana Airport in St. Maarten, the Caribbean island, is one of the world's most famous airports: essentially, planes on short final for landing…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 5, 2013
Military Aviation

Red Flag 13-3: focusing on Electronic Warfare, SEAD and Intelligence. With plenty of Aggressors.

Red Flag 13-3 currently underway at Nellis Air Force Base focuses on complex combat ops, in an "electronic scenario". At least, this is what seems to emerge based on the…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 4, 2013
F-35

Here is how a Royal Canadian Air Force F-35 in special color scheme could look like

Even if the future of the F-35 in the Royal Canadian Air Force is at least uncertain, after the program was "reset" (with several other replacement combat planes being considered,…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 3, 2013
Military Aviation

[Photo] Six C-130 Hercules aircraft practice large formation airlift tactics and procedures

On Feb. 21, 2013, a formation of six C-130 Hercules from Yokota Air Base, Japan participated in a mission whose aim was to practice  large formation airlift tactics and procedures.…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 3, 2013
Mali

[Video] U.S. tanker refuels French Rafale combat planes over Mali

Among the (known) U.S. assets supporting the French Air War in Mali, there are some 100th ARW's KC-135 from RAF Mildenhall (operating from Moron airbase, in Spain). The following video…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 2, 2013
F-35

Pentagon F-35 Chief batters Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney over program

Shortly before the F-35 fleetwide grounding was lifted (as investigation found that cracked turbine blade affected only overused test plane and no redesign is needed), Reuters reported that during an…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
March 2, 2013
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