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Iran

Obama Administration to fund additional Israeli Iron Dome mobile air defense systems

According to an article published by the Jerusalem Post on May 13, the Israeli Defense minister Ehud Barak and U.S. counterpart Leon Panetta will announce (in a press conference to…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
May 15, 2012
Military Aviation

Foam party! Hangar fire suppression system submerges F-15, F-16 and A-10 in foam at Eglin Air Force Base

According to "youmustvotenato", the user who posted it to Reddit, the following picture was taken after the fire suppression system base went off because of a spark from a welder…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 14, 2012
Airshows

These are the best (air-to-air) pictures of the Discovery mounted atop NASA's Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft

The following pictures were published today on the U.S. Air Force Westover Air Reserve Base Facebook page. They show the Space Shuttle Discovery mounted atop NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft SCA…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 14, 2012
Iran

‘Operation Delawar’: When An Entire U.S. Army Airborne Brigade, Two F-100 Squadrons Deployed To Iran

In 1964, the U.S. and Iranian military "learned how to work together as a combined joint team involved in a common enterprise". "Operation Delawar" is an episode of The Big…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 14, 2012
Libyan Uprising

Libya: NATO must acknowledge and compesate 72 civilian victims of potentially unlawful air strikes, Human Rights Watch says

Last year’s Libya Air War saw the coalition of NATO and non-NATO members, operating within Operation Unified Protector, dropping some 3,644 LGBs, 2,844 GPS-guided, 1,150 precision-guided direct-fire weapons, to enforce…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 14, 2012
China

[Updated] Photo: Second China’s J-20 stealth fighter prototype (almost) makes maiden flight

On May 14, 2012, the second prototype of the J-20 Mighty Dragon, serialled "2002", performed a high-speed taxi at Chengdu. Once again the images of the first flight were immediately…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 14, 2012
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