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Aviation Safety

Watch a German Eurofighter Typhoon use the tailhook during emergency landing at SIAF 2016

A Eurofighter Typhoon performed a tailhook landing during SIAF 2016. Tailhook landings by land-based aircraft are used in emergency situations to arrest planes experiencing failures that could imply a braking…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 10, 2016
Military Aviation

32 F-22 Raptors moved to Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base to escape Hurricane Matthew

F-22 Raptors and T-38 Talons from Langley were "Hurrevaced" to Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base. The top image is quite impressive. It shows 32 F-22 Raptors from Joint Base Langley-Eustis…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 8, 2016
Italian Air Force

Italian Tornado jets help police forces finding a marijuana plantation during anti-drug mission

Italian Tornado combat planes took part in an anti-drug mission aimed at finding a marijuana plantation not far from their homebase. About 250 kg of cannabis were seized in northern…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 7, 2016
Russia

This armed Russian Su-27 Flanker has (probably) violated the Finnish airspace today

The Finnish Ministry of Defense has released a photo of an armed Russian Flanker that possibly violated Finland's sovereign airspace. In the last few years we have reported several close…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 6, 2016
Military Aviation

Is Poland really considering restarting production of its indigenous obsolete I-22 Iryda trainer aircraft?

Poland may resuscitate an obsolete domestic trainer in an attempt to boost the economic situation of the country. On Oct. 3, Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
October 6, 2016
Russia

Russia has completed ground tests of its high-energy Airborne combat Laser System

Unlike the now-scrapped US airborne counter-ballistic laser project, Russian airborne laser system is still alive. Although based on a 35 year-old design dating back to the Soviet era... The Russian…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 5, 2016
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