Near miss as Britain's biggest warship squeezes through Thames Barrier to attend the Olympic Guard exercise
Along with the Typhoon on QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) at RAF Northolt, west London, the Olympic Guard exercise, whose goal is to test the security plan aimed to prevent a…
More Strike Eagles deploying to Afghanistan. Once again via Moron Air Base, Spain.
Even if many readers didn't know this airport until I published the story of the F-22 deployed to the UAE, Moron Air Base (whose actual name is Morón) is a…
Photo: The most famous U.S. nuclear bomber generates (peace sign) rainbow condensation cloud
The following photo shows a B-52H Stratofortress from the 96th Bomb Squadron, Barksdale Air Force Base, La., generating a rainbow-colored condensation cloud on take off on a training flight, on…
Israeli spy blimp crashes near Gaza
An Israel Defence Forces observation airship crashed on May. 4, on the Israeli side of the Gaza border. The spy blimp was performing a routine surveillance deployment in the Gaza…
"Risk must be balanced with the requirement for the capability" Air Combat Command chief still confident in F-22 says
According to a press release issued on May 5, 2012, Gen. Mike Hostage, chief of Air Combat Command, will soon begin flying the Raptor in order to better understand what…
French fighter jet and helicopter launched to intercept a paraglider approaching a nuclear plant
On May 2, a Greenpeace activist flying a paraglider, entered the forbidden airspace over the Le Bugey nuclear power plant, between Lyon and Geneva, and dropped a smoke device on…
