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Italian Air Force

KC-767 performs special bio-containment flight to transport Italy’s first case of Ebola

The Italian Air Force carried out the first special biocontainment flight, to repatriate an Italian doctor who contracted Ebola virus working in Sierra Leone. An Italian doctor, who developed a…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 25, 2014
Russia

Swedish Spyplane “caught” flying off Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast

A Swedish Air Force Gulfstream IVSP Electronic Intelligence plane could be tracked as it flew in the airspace off Kaliningrad Oblast, where some of the most active Russian bases in…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 24, 2014
Military Aviation

In photos, U.S. Air Force B-1 bombers blast through Green Flag-West 15-02

B-1B Lancer bombers at work at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, and over the Southern California desert during Green Flag exercise. B-1 bombers, assigned to the 34th Bomb Squadron, from…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 23, 2014
Troubled Areas

Video of E-3F AWACS refueled mid-air by French tanker over Iraq

French C-135FR refueling Belgian Air Force F-16 and E-3F AWACS over Iraq during air strikes on ISIS. You don't see an AWACS refuel mid-air too often. Although AAR (Air-to-Air Refueling)…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 22, 2014
Russia

Photo of Secretary General of NATO aircraft escorted by Dutch F-16s over the Baltic enroute to Estonia

This is what is what a HVAAE (High Value Air Asset Escort) looks like from inside the plane being escorted! On Nov. 20, Secretary General of NATO, Mr. Jens Stoltenberg,…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 21, 2014
Drones

Watch a Soviet-era Battlestar Galactica spacecraft-like reconnaissance drone launched by Ukrainian forces

An interesting video shows the Ukrainian forces launching Soviet-era Tu-143 reconnaissance drones. Some months ago we published some pictures showing an almost intact Tu-143 Reys drone, recovered, almost intact, in…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 21, 2014
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