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Special Operations

Airborne Assault (how it looks like if you are not wearing Night Vision Goggles)

Pilots routinely wear Night Vision Goggles that can virtually turn night into day (more or less...). But even soldiers and Special Operations teams use them (U.S. Navy SEAL Team 6…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 31, 2013
F-35

F-35 makes a step towards operational status with first guided weapon drop test

Even if the bomb used in the test did not contain any explosive, the F-35 test team made a new step towards operational status by conducting the program’s first guided…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 30, 2013
Syria

[Video] This is what taking a direct tank shell hit looks like!

A-10 Warthogs' specialty is killing enemy tanks. For this reason they are U.S. soldiers favorite planes when it deals with calling for air support in Afghanistan. An A-10 with a…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 30, 2013
Military Aviation

Eurofighter Typhoon Enhancement Program delivers robust simultaneous multi-/swing-role capability

Top image shows Eurofighter IPA (instrumented production aircraft) 7 flying over Cassidian´s Military Air Systems Center in Manching with an impressive payload: Laser Designator Pod, two Supersonic Fuel Tanks, two…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 30, 2013
Military Aviation

Lockheed Martin and Boeing team up in a new USAF Long Range Strike Bomber program

Few days before Russia reminded the world its strategic bomber fleet is capable to deploy on intercontinental range (skirting the U.S. airspace) Boeing and Lockheed Martin announced they are going…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
October 30, 2013
Aviation Safety

Watch this: How insanely low you can fly a civilian jet liner!

It seems like low level flying in Argentina is not limited to military fighter jets, trainers or cargo planes. The images in this post were taken on Dec. 12, 2007…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 29, 2013
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