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This photo of an F-15E Strike Eagle generating a condensation cloud at low altitude is simply stunning

Taken on Aug. 22 by Rob Birmingham, the following image shows a U.S. F-15E belonging from RAF Lakenheath as it generates a condensation cloud during a low level sortie in…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 26, 2012
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Spain to defer the delivery and purchase of 12 Typhoon fighter planes signed with the Eurofighter Defense Consortium

Spanish Defense Minister, Pedro Morenés, has confirmed that Spain wants to defer the delivery and purchase of 12 Eurofighter Typhoon warplanes he has signed with the Eurofighter Defense Consortium and…

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August 24, 2012

Insane flybys and crazy urban dogfights between F-15 and MiG-29 fighter jets: the South Korea’s version of "Top Gun"

Released on Aug. 15, "Retun to base" (R2B) is a brand new action movie about combat planes and fighter pilots. The movie (a remake of 1964 title "Red Scarf") is…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 24, 2012
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U.S. strategic bomber and tanker to be (temporarily) based in Australia. The first of a series of "future rotational deployments"

Few days after the Indonesian Sukhoi Su-30s made their first appearance at Royal Australian Air Force Base Darwin for Exercise Pitch Black, the base in Australia's Northern Territory will soon…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 23, 2012

Video: Danish F-16 buzzing Storebæltsbroen bridge as seen from the cockpit (from an unsual point of view)

The following cockpit footage filmed from a quite unusual point of view shows two Royal Danish Air Force F-16s (not literally "buzzing" but) overflying the Storebæltsbroen in Denmark on a…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 23, 2012
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An unusual visitor at Nellis Air Force Base: Obama’s Air Force One, world’s most heavily defended plane

Being the base of the Red Flag, Nellis Air Force Base, near Las Vegas, is used to host U.S. and foreign combat planes quite frequently. However, the Air Force One…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 22, 2012
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