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Military Aviation

Airbus A400M tactical airlifter makes combat debut in Mali

Released by the Armée de l'Air (French Air Force) these images show the Airbus A400M Atlas tactical airlifter during its first combat sortie in support to Operation Serval in Mali.…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
January 2, 2014
Military Aviation

Heavy Metal: last missions of the AC-130H Spectre gunship over Afghanistan

According to the U.S. Air Force Central Command, the one below has been their viewer's favorite in 2013. It shows the last days of the AC-130H Spectre gunship in its…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
January 1, 2014
Helicopters

This photo of AH-64 Apache helicopter salvoing flares in the dark is one of the best of 2013

Known as "Peten" ("Cobra" in Hebrew) in the Israeli Air Force, the Boeing AH-64A is an attack helicopter that Israel has extensively used in combat since 1990s. Involved in Lebanon…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 31, 2013
Military Aviation

Inverted over the enemy: Mirage 2000 intercepts F-16 upside down

The first thing the image in this post reminded us is the famous scene of Top Gun (when Maverick turns its F-14 Tomcat upside down to give the finger to…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 31, 2013
Drones

Pentagon’s vision of future of military drones takes “man” out of “unmanned”

According to the roadmap just published, in the next 25 years Pentagon aims at fielding military unmanned systems that will be autonomous and able to perceive, analyzw, correlate and make…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 30, 2013
Aircraft Carriers

Impressive: F/A-18 Hornet jets recovering on aircraft carrier in bad weather

This video was recorded on USS Theodore Roosevelt on Sept. 14, 2003. The flattop found itself in a extremely bad weather and heavy rainfall in the middle of a recovery:…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 30, 2013
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