Failure or Omen? White smoke escaped from the Pope’s helicopter just after Benedict XVI’s final flight
White smoke escaping through a small chimney visible from St. Peter's Square is traditionally used to announce the world the election of a new pope following a successful vote by…
Amazing St. Maarten-like photo of a B-2 stealth bomber landing in Guam. Ops, it’s Diego Garcia.
Update Mar. 4, 2013, 19.20 GMT Princess Juliana Airport in St. Maarten, the Caribbean island, is one of the world's most famous airports: essentially, planes on short final for landing…
Red Flag 13-3: focusing on Electronic Warfare, SEAD and Intelligence. With plenty of Aggressors.
Red Flag 13-3 currently underway at Nellis Air Force Base focuses on complex combat ops, in an "electronic scenario". At least, this is what seems to emerge based on the…
Here is how a Royal Canadian Air Force F-35 in special color scheme could look like
Even if the future of the F-35 in the Royal Canadian Air Force is at least uncertain, after the program was "reset" (with several other replacement combat planes being considered,…
[Photo] Six C-130 Hercules aircraft practice large formation airlift tactics and procedures
On Feb. 21, 2013, a formation of six C-130 Hercules from Yokota Air Base, Japan participated in a mission whose aim was to practice large formation airlift tactics and procedures.…
[Video] U.S. tanker refuels French Rafale combat planes over Mali
Among the (known) U.S. assets supporting the French Air War in Mali, there are some 100th ARW's KC-135 from RAF Mildenhall (operating from Moron airbase, in Spain). The following video…
