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Turkey sends 25 F-16 fighter jets close to the Syrian border

As Syria and Turkey exchange fire for the seventh straight day, Ankara has announced up to 25 F-16 fighter jets were moved closer to the border, at Diyarbakir airbase. The…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 9, 2012

Heroic nightime icy Arctic sea search and rescue mission awarded with trophy for Helicopter Rescue

The Canadian Forces Search and Rescue team was selected as the winner of the AgustaWestland's 2012 Cormorant Trophy for Helicopter Rescue. The trophy was awarded for  a dramatic long range…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 9, 2012

Israeli Air Force flies mock air raids over Lebanon in response to the mysterious UAV violation of Israeli airspace

In response to the mysterious UAV incursion into Israeli air space on Oct. 6, Haaretz has reported that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) has flown several mock air raids over…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
October 8, 2012
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Special Operations planes used to carry investigative teams to Benghazi as the U.S. prepares to strike. Maybe.

In the last weeks, an unsual, covert, constant activity of U.S. Special Operations planes has been recorded in the Mediterranean Sea. Quite regularly, taking off from Souda Bay, in Crete,…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 8, 2012

Israeli Air Force releases video of mysterious drone shot down by an F-16 over Israeli airspace

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that had penetrated the Israeli airspace in the morning of Oct. 6, was identified and intercepted by what looks like an Israeli Air Force F-16…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 6, 2012

Korean Peninsula on the verge of Nuclear war?

At a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly on Oct 1. North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Pak Kil-yon, one of the final speakers at the assembly’s annual gathering in New…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
October 6, 2012
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