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Aircraft Carriers

The special way U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcats wished Merry Christmas to sailors deployed at sea

Christmas is an ordinary day when you are embarked on an aircraft carrier for maritime security operations. Still, this doesn't mean there are no alternate ways to celebrate it, as…

Dario Leone Dario Leone
December 25, 2012

Take a seat next to the B-52 heavy bomber’s Radar Navigator

The following video brings you on board a U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress during a mission from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. http://youtu.be/J9YcoYfqNh4 Anything related to the most iconic U.S.…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 24, 2012
China

China’s new military transport plane exposed. And it looks like a C-17, An-70, A400M hybrid.

Posted by Alert5 today, the following image shows the first photographs of China's new four-engine military airlifter. The large military transport aircraft is allegedly designed Y-20 and, nose aside, its…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 24, 2012
Aviation Safety

How a badly damaged C-17 Globemaster was saved and flown back from Afghanistan

On Jan. 23, 2012 a C-17A Globemaster III was involved in a landing incident at Forward Operating Base Shank, in Afghanistan during a combat airlift mission in support to Operation…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 23, 2012
Military Aviation

Renascent Libyan Air Force strikes smuggler camps near the border with Chad and Sudan

According to the Libyan Herald, on Dec. 18,  Libyan airforce jets hit a camp possibly used by suspected smugglers located close to the border with Chad and Sudan, not far…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 23, 2012
Military Aviation

Photo: U.S. Air Force plane prepares for take off under giant double rainbow on Dec. 21 “Doomsday”

Taken on the day of the alleged Mayan Apocalypse Dec. 21, 2012, the following cool photo shows pilots preparing the cockpit of a U.S. Air Force T-38 Talon jet at…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 22, 2012
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