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Military Aviation

That Time the Luftwaffe Experimented with a Rocket-Launched F-104G Starfighter

"Zero Length Launch" Was Tested in Germany on an F-104G. Here’s the Video. Almost every aviation enthusiast has probably seen the famous June 1957 test videos of a North American…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
January 12, 2018
Military Aviation

Three B-2 Stealth Bombers Have Deployed To Guam In Support of U.S. Pacific Command’s Bomber Assurance and Deterrence Mission

The U.S. Air Force has just deployed three B-2 Spirits stealth bombers to Guam. Three B-2 Spirit strategic stealth bombers along with approximately 200 Airmen belonging to the 509th Bomb…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
January 11, 2018
Russia

Two Incidents Claimed by Russian Media Form Bizarre Conspiracy Theory About U.S. Support For ISIS in Syria

Russia suggesting attack on airbase in Syria is linked to U.S. Navy maritime patrol aircraft presence. Syrian and Russian media outlets including the state-run Sputnik News have reported that a…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
January 10, 2018
Aviation

America’s Secret Airline To Area 51 Is Now Hiring Flight Attendants

JANET airlines, flying non-stop to Area 51, Tonopah Test Range and other "sensitive locations" is hiring. Janet (that unofficially stands for “Just Another Non Existent Terminal”), is the name of…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
January 10, 2018
Aviation Safety

Yemen’s Houthis Claim Saudi F-15 Kill with SAM Over Capital City of Santis

FLIR Images Show F-15 Shoot-Down, Weapon Used May Have Been Repurposed AAM.Images and video have surfaced of what is claimed to be a Royal Saudi Air Force F-15 Eagle being…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
January 9, 2018
Drones

Defining Asymmetrical Warfare: Extremists Use Retail Drones to Attack Russian Air Base in Syria

One Aircraft Heavily Damaged in Most Recent in String of Low-Cost Insurgent Drone Attacks. It is the definition of asymmetrical warfare: a fast-moving, lightly armed insurgency fueled by a radical…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
January 8, 2018
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