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Helicopters

Poland wants new Attack Helicopters to replace Mi-24 Hind gunships. Soon.

Poland has changed its priorities regarding acquisition of the helicopters. The general-purpose combat helicopter was to be the first purchase of the Polish Armed Forces, but now the weight has been…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
September 10, 2014
Drones

What’s this Pod Carried by a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone in Afghanistan?

An interesting picture, shared by the U.S. Air Force, shows a Reaper UAS (Unmanned Air System) on the ground at Kandahar airbase, with two interesting pods. The image in this…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 9, 2014
Helicopters

[Video] Syrian helicopter destroyed by Anti-Tank Guided Missile

Syrian militants fire a Kornet ATGM (Anti-Tank Guided Missile) to a Syrian helicopter The following video shows a Syrian Mil Mi-8 Hip helicopter being destroyed by a Kornet ATGM reportedly…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 9, 2014
Military Aviation

[Photo] C-17 cockpit lighting controls during night flight over Iraq

This is how the cockpit of a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft looks like at night The image in this post was taken as Capt. Erica Stooksbury, C-17 pilot with the…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 8, 2014
Iraq

New video suggests even U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle jets are now striking eastern Iraq

Although blurry, and taken from long distance, the footage seems to show a U.S. F-15E over eastern Iraq. Not only U.S. Navy planes and Predator drones are flying over Iraq.…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 8, 2014
Syria

Watch this: Anti-Aircraft Fire misses Syrian MiG-21 by inches during ground attack

A Syrian Arab Air Force MiG-21 is almost hit by ground fire as it releases its bomb. A video, originally posted on Liveleak and then removed, shows a shell (57mm…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 7, 2014
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