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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
Russia

Two Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers deploy in Venezuela after a 13-hour flight across the Pacific

Two Russian Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers that had left Russia on Oct. 28, have completed a 10,000 miles, 13-hour long range training flight and landed in Venezuela , according to…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 29, 2013
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