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Military Aviation

[Updated] U.S. Special Forces raid in Somalia: no need for stealth choppers so did they parachute from a C-17?

Update Jan. 25 15:33GMT In the night between Jan. 24 and 25 a US joint Special Forces team (including the Navy SEALs) team freed two Western workers kidnapped in Somalia…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
January 25, 2012
Military Aviation

If you wondered why a C-5 Galaxy performed the flyover at Gillette Stadium before the AFC Championship game.

On Sunday Jan. 22, a C-5 Galaxy (#86-0023) using callsign "Rodd 10" performed a flyover for the AFC Championship game between New England Patriots and Baltimore Ravens. Used to fast…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
January 24, 2012
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China: does it need to copy the RQ-170 "Beast of Kandahar" captured in Iran?

As has been widely reported it is no secret that China is trying to acquire stealth technology for use in their indigenous aircraft program. It was only last year that…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
January 24, 2012
F-35

F-35: flying on phased out fuel or programmed by a videogame freak?

Soon after publishing the article about the "F-35 from the Cockpit" I've received some emails and comments about an interesting thing readers have noticed in one of the webminar slides used to…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
January 23, 2012
Military Aviation

London Olympics security: Major Exercise takes place in the skies of the UK

On Jan. 18 reports started filtering in from local newspapers in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire, UK, of aircraft flying in circles over their locations and urged visitors to their website to…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
January 23, 2012
Military Aviation

Photo: Hornet catching the wires. On the Arctic Circle

Published by Lt. Gen. Jarmo Lindberg, commander of the Finnish Air Force, on his Twitter timeline few days ago, the following picture (by Harri Koskinen) shows a F-18D Hornet routine…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
January 22, 2012
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