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F-35

U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Connects To HIMARS For Rocket Shot In a “Direct Sensor-to-Shooter” Scenario

Using Datalink, an F-35B shared target data with an M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). 5th Gen. aircraft increasingly used to shorten the "sensor-to-shooter" cycle. According to Lt. Gen.…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 9, 2018
Aviation Safety

FLIR Footage Shows California Highway Patrol Chase Ending In Fatal Crash Into An F/A-18 at NAS Lemoore

Recently-released footage shows an unauthorized vehicle being pursued by California Highway Patrol inside Naval Air Station Lemoore, California, in 2016. On the night of Mar. 30 - 31, 2016, a…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 8, 2018
Russia

U.S. Air Force F-15C Jets Have Just Started Historic First Deployment To Ukraine

The F-15C from the California Air National Guard are taking part in Exercise "Clear Sky 2018". On Oct. 6, 2018, U.S. Air Force F-15C Eagles, belonging to the 194th Fighting…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 6, 2018
F-35

Everything We Know About The Delivery of Russian S-300 Missile Systems to Syria

Let's analyse if and how the Syrian scenario is going to change after the delivery of the S-300 air defense system to Assad. Images and video of the first Russian…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 5, 2018
F-35

F-35 and F-16 Formation Doing Arizona State Capitol Flyover As Seen From A Helicopter

Flyover filmed from from a Robinson R44 Helicopter equipped with a gyro stabilized camera system. The footage below was filmed on Sept. 26, as a formation of four aircraft, two…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 4, 2018
Afghanistan

Details Emerge About First U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Combat Mission in History.

Successful Strike Honored Marine Pilot Killed in Combat in September 2012. New details and photos have emerged from last week’s first-ever combat mission by a U.S. military F-35 Lightning II…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
October 3, 2018
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