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Iran

Spy Satellite Spots Large Scale Iranian Mock-Up of U.S. Aircraft Carrier for Training.

Mock-Up of U.S. Carrier May Be for New Iranian Coastal Defense Demonstration. A credible report of a 650-foot long Iranian-built mock-up of a U.S. Nimitz-class aircraft carrier has surfaced based…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
June 10, 2020
Military Aviation

USAF Accidentally Dropped Hypersonic Test Missile Over Secure Range.

Aviation Week Reports Hypersonic Missile “Believed to Have Inadvertently Separated” From B-52 Test Aircraft. In a story on AviationWeek.com published on June 9, 2020, reporters Guy Norris and Steve Trimble…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
June 9, 2020
Libya

A U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon Has Carried Out An Unusual ISR Mission Off Libya Recently

The American aircraft has rarely been tracked off North Africa. We have been observing U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon flying in the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions for years. The American…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
June 9, 2020
Aviation Safety

USAF F-35A Has Landing Gear Collapse, C-130 Overshoots Runway in Separate Incidents.

F-35A Landing Gear Collapse is Second Time for USAF, No Injuries in C-130 Accident. In two separate incidents, a USAF F-35A Lightning II was damaged when its nose wheel collapsed…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
June 9, 2020
Military Aviation

Two Dozen KC-135s, C-17s and KC-46s Took Part In Large-Scale Evacuation Exercise At Altus Air Force Base.

The "Elephant Walk" was carried out as the aircraft prepared for a mass launch from Altus AFB. 10x KC-135 Stratotankers, 10x C-17 Globemaster IIIs and 4x KC-46 Pegasus aircraft belonging…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
June 8, 2020
F-35

Italian Air Force F-35s Deploy To Iceland for NATO Icelandic Air Policing Again

Six F-35A jets will operate from Keflavik for one month as part of Operation “Northern Lightning II”. The Italian Air Force is deploying its F-35A 5th generation aircraft in Iceland…

Stefano D'Urso Stefano D'Urso
June 8, 2020
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