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Captured Stealth Drone

If Iran has decoded all data in the captured U.S. stealth RQ-170 drone it’s no big deal

In the last of a series of similar claims, a senior Iranian commander announced that Tehran has just extracted all the data stored in the RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone which…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 10, 2012
Military Aviation

How Does The F-16 Perform Against Its Adversaries In Dogfight?

The Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon is the western world's most prolific fighter of the last 40 years. Even though medium and long range air-to-air missiles, such as the AIM-7 Sparrow…

Dario Leone Dario Leone
David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 10, 2012
Aviation

Video shows five hours of planes landing at San Diego in 25 seconds

The following video was brought to my attention by Roberto Petagna, a few days ago. It's a quite curious composite video created by photography and film professor Cy Kuckenbaker that…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 9, 2012
Aviation Safety

F-22 Raptor scrapes tail on runway as it lands after Pearl Harbor flyover sustaining 1.8M in damage

An F-22 Raptor, assigned to the 199th Fighter Squadron, Hawaii Air National Guard, 19th Fighter Squadron, U.S. Air Force, sustained 1.8 million USD in damage in a landing incident at…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 9, 2012
Airshows

RAF’s Tornado Role Demo Team to return to the UK airshow scene in 2013

The RAF has recently announced that its highly acclaimed Tornado Role Demo Display Team is to return to the UK Air Show circuit for 2013. The two-ship display team using…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
December 7, 2012
Helicopters

Syrian chopper drops incendiary cluster bombs on rebels

As Assad loads chemicals into weapons, new footage (sent to me by Jake Snyder) emerges from Syria showing regime's helicopters dropping incendiary cluster bombs on rebel positions. The Mil Mi-25…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 7, 2012
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