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Military Aviation

We Encountered The B-2 Stealth Bomber At Night in Stormy Skies To Get These Crazy Cool Photos. Here’s How It Went.

Close Encounter With Two Ghostly B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers At Night. “It’s go time!” The crew announcement snaps me from my sleep. It’s near zero hundred and we fly in…

Todd Miller Todd Miller
October 9, 2017
Military Aviation

Six F-22 Raptor jets Have Deployed To RAF Lakenheath, UK

Six U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors have deployed to Europe as part of the European Deterrence Initiative. Six U.S. Air Force Raptor jets, belonging to the 27th Fighter Squadron and…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 8, 2017
Military Aviation

New F-16C Aggressor Color Livery (Dubbed “BDU Splinter”) Unveiled at Eielson Air Force Base

F-16C Block 30 from 18th Aggressor Squadron Debuts in New Splinter-Euro/Southeast Asia Style Camo. A photo shared on the Eielson Air Force Base official Facebook page early on Saturday, Oct.…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
October 8, 2017
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Watch An Iranian F-4E Phantom Do A Roll Near A U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet During A Close Encounter

An Iranian Phantom performs what loosely reminds a Top Gun stunt while "intercepting" an American Super Hornet. We don't know when nor where this was filmed, still the footage, reportedly…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 6, 2017
Military Aviation

Well Before The SR-72 Was Conceived, The Iconic SR-71 Blackbird Proved “Speed Is The Real Stealth”

The SR-71 Blackbird was so fast it outran every missile shoot against it and every interceptor scrambled to intercept it. The aviation "side" of the Web went abuzz following the…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 6, 2017
Military Aviation

With Three Flights To Batajnica, A Volga-Dnepr An-124 Cargo Has Delivered Six “New” MiG-29 Fulcrum Jets To Serbia

These are the first new (used and for the moment disassembled) combat aircraft for Serbia since 1987. Three pairs of partially disassembled MiG-29 Fulcrum jets destined to Serbia have been…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 5, 2017
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