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Drones

New videos show Syrian made-in-Iran drone taking off from Hamah airbase, Syria

Uploaded on Mar. 24, 2012, these videos show the made-in-Iran drone, known as "Pahpad", taking off and operating from Hamah airbase in the city of Hama, in the west part…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 25, 2012
Military Aviation

Photo: Tailhook landing….in the desert. By a U.S. Air Force F-15

Yesterday the following image (actually uploaded by the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing on Feb. 27) was published by the Air Force Magazine. The one depicted above is an F-15C Eagle…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 24, 2012
Bizarre

Beware of EXIF when you upload images to Flickr: USAF photo caption says image was taken in 2012. Flickr says May 2009. USAF lied.

The following picture was uploaded few days ago on the official USAF Flickr photostream. Here's the caption (highlight mine): An Alaska Air National Guard HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter practices high-altitude…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 24, 2012

Syrian regime escalates air war: new video of Mil Mi-8 firing rockets

Yesterday, the first video of an Mi-8/Mi-17 using the side mounted machine gun to attack rebels near Azaz, was uploaded on Youtube. Today, another video has emerged. It shows (in…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 23, 2012
Iran

Israeli F-15I to be equipped with removable probe for buddy air-to-air refueling in case of attack on Iran?

Even though nobody knows if an attack on Iranian nuclear program will ever be launched by the Israeli Air Force almost all analysts concur that, whathever its size, the strike…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 23, 2012

First video of a Syrian helicopter gunship attacking rebels near Azaz, northwest of Aleppo

The following video, brought to my attention by Bjørn Holst Jespersen shows a Syrian Mi-8/17 Hip attacking civilians/rebels near Azaz, some 30 km nortwest of Aleppo, Syria. After many videos…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 22, 2012
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