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Military Aviation

Alenia Aermacchi M-346 back in U.S. Air Force T-X advanced trainer program

Compliance with the "sustained-G" requirement and a possible new U.S. partner make Alenia Aermacchi confident they can win the T-X race. The Alenia Aermacchi M-346 “Master” is a dual-engine LIFT…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 5, 2015
North Korea

Cockpit photo exposes North Korean pilot using a ridiculous lace-trimmed ejection seat headrest cover

Is this a standard cockpit adornment? Screenshots from a video aired by the North Korean state television were posted yesterday by Alert5 military aviation site. While cockpit footage from inside…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 5, 2015
Helicopters

Watch this insanely low-flying Ukrainian Mi-17 helicopter buzz cars on highway

You can't fly lower than this! The following video, filmed by a car dash camera, shows a Ukrainian Mi-17 Hip helicopter buzzing the cars on a highway somewhere near Dnipropetrovsk,…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 5, 2015
Military Aviation

Gorgeous video shows U.S. A-10 landing on a dirt runway in the desert

Try to do that with an F-35.... As already reported, two U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II jets belonging to the 75th Fighter Squadron, from Moody Air Force Base, performed…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 4, 2015
Military Aviation

Focus on Red Flag 15-3: how U.S. forces learn to fight in the unseen battle space

We have also taken part in an aerial refueling mission: "nobody kicks ass, without tanker gas!" Red Flag is well known as the world’s premier aerial warfighting exercise. Featuring the…

Todd Miller Todd Miller
August 3, 2015
Aviation Safety

Dramatic footage shows Russian Mi-28N gunship crashing at airshow

A Mi-28N Havoc gunship has crashed in Russia during an airshow. A Russian Mi-28N Night Hunter helicopter crashed during Aviamix airshow at Ryazan airbase, southeast of Moscow, Russia. The gunship…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 2, 2015
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