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Mysterious X-37B Unmanned Space Plane Returns After Long, Secret Mission.

Mission of Secret Space Drone Remains Unknown Following 717-Day Orbit. The secretive U.S. Air Force Boeing X-37B orbital unmanned spacecraft has landed at the Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
May 8, 2017
Airshows

The Hellenic Air Force Has Retired Its Last RF-4E Phantom Jets

The HAF has bid farewell to its last "recce" Phantoms. On May 4, Larissa airbase, Greece, hosted the spotter day for the final flight of the Hellenic Air Force RF-4E,…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 8, 2017
Military Aviation

We Flew Red Air against F-22 Raptors, F-35 Lightning IIs, Rafales and Typhoons in Atlantic Trident ’17. Here’s How It Went.

Flying adversary air in a 71st Fighter Training Squadron (FTS) T-38A Talon during Atlantic Trident 17. At 21,000 ft “Code” rolls the Talon inverted.  I have just enough time to…

Todd Miller Todd Miller
May 5, 2017
F-35

First F-35B Assembled Internationally Rolled Out of Cameri FACO Production Facility

It's the first F-35B assembled outside of the U.S. On May. 5, the first F-35B, the Short Take-Off Vertical Landing variant of the the F-35 Lightning II, destined to the…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 5, 2017
Drones

U.S. Air Force Video Shows ISIS Militants Failing To Launch A UAV In Syria

ISIS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle fail as seen from above. ISIS is known to operate a wide variety of UAVs. Surveillance, Kamikaze, grenade-dropping drones and quadcopters are often dispatched to perform…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 4, 2017
Russia

Ramstein Alloy 4 Served To Exercise Baltic Air Policing Alert Aircraft Procedures

Check Out These Awesome Air-to-Air Shots Taken During Ramstein Alloy 4 Exercise. The fourth edition of the NATO air drills series Ramstein Alloy took place in Baltic airspace, mainly over…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
May 4, 2017
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