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Libya

On This Day In 1986: Operation El Dorado Canyon, The F-111’s Shining Moment.

USAF, Navy and Marines Struck Back at Qaddafi’s Libya for Terrorist Bombing. Their swing-wings straining to lift a heavy bomb load, the afterburner thunder from an air-armada of twenty-four F-111Fs…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
April 15, 2020
Military Aviation

The F-15 Eagle’s Most Advanced Production Version Performs Its First Flight

The F-15QA is the first of 36 aircraft developed specifically for Qatar. Boeing announced that the F-15QA, the most advanced version of the F-15 Eagle, performed successfully its first flight…

Stefano D'Urso Stefano D'Urso
April 14, 2020
North Korea

Rare photo of North Korean MiG-29 Firing an R-60 AAM Emerges After Kim Jong Un’s Visit to Sunchon Airbase

The visit also provided a rare public appearance of the weapons used by North Korean aircraft. Last week, the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visited an unspecified “pursuit assault plane…

Stefano D'Urso Stefano D'Urso
April 14, 2020
Aviation

The Antonov An-225 Mriya Lands in Warsaw, Poland, Carrying COVID-19 Relief from China

The world's heaviest aircraft ever built is flying Covid-19 relief missions these days. The only built Antonov An-225 Mriya (NATO reporting name: Cossack) strategic airlift cargo aircraft landed in Warsaw…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
April 14, 2020
Helicopters

Fireworks Aimed At Italian Police Helicopter Sent To Break Up Easter Grill On The Roof of An Apartment Block In Sicily

Unbelievable footage from Palermo, shows fireworks aimed at an Italian State Police AW139 helicopter on Covid-19 patrol during Easter Sunday. Helicopters belonging to the Italian Police, Armed Forces and Armed…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 13, 2020
Drones

Five B-52s, Six KC-135s Along With RQ-4, MQ-4C and MH-60S Take Part in Elephant Walk at Andersen AFB, Guam.

A joint "Elephant Walk" featuring strategic bombers, tankers, and the recently arrived Triton, was staged at the U.S. military outpost in the Western Pacific. Strategically located 1,800 miles (about 2,900…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 13, 2020
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