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Military Aviation

NATO Code Name “FELON”: Russian Su-57 Gets Its Reporting Name, And It Couldn’t Be Better.

Straight Out of a Clancy Novel, Russia’s Stealth Fighter Gets a Badass Western Name. It couldn’t be better even if the late Tom Clancy were to have written it, and…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
November 1, 2019
Helicopters

Check Out This Chinese Helicopter Gunship Helmet That Looks Like a Movie Prop.

New Helmet Mounted Sight for Z-10 “Fierce Thunderbolt” Has Star Wars Vibe. China’s impressive new CAIC (Changhe Aircraft Industries Corporation) Z-10 gunship helicopter has attracted little western media attention since…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
November 1, 2019
North Korea

Misawa Air Base Issues “Real World Missile Alert” In Response to North Korean Test.

Tensions About New North Korean Missile Tests Return in Japan After Talks Stall. Misawa Air Base in northern Honshu, Japan, issued a “Real World Missile Alert” on its official Facebook…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
November 1, 2019
F-35

OOOPS! First Dutch F-35A Accidentally Gets Foam Party Instead of Water Salute.

Fire Crews Were Supposed to Use Water, But Apparently Selected Foam Instead. In an embarrassing gaff by the Dutch military, the first operational F-35A Lightning II for the Royal Netherlands…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
November 1, 2019
Russia

Wait… What? What Is a Russian Sukhoi Su-34 Doing Driving Along the Road?

We (Almost) Get to The Bottom of Another Strange Russian Road Camera Incident. The Russians made dash cam video famous, and while this one wasn’t taken with a dash cam,…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
October 31, 2019
Aviation Safety

U.S. F-16 Crashed near Holloman AFB, Pilot Ejected.

It's the second U.S. F-16 crashing in less than a month. An F-16 assigned to the 49th Wing out of Holloman Air Force Base crashed during an evening training flight…

Stefano D'Urso Stefano D'Urso
October 31, 2019
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