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Military Aviation

Eight A-10 tankbusters have deployed to Slovakia “to demonstrate U.S. deterrence efforts against Russia”

Cross-border training in eastern Europe for the A-10 Thunderbolts from Indiana. Eight A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft, along with 140 airmen, belonging to the 122nd Fighter Wing, Fort Wayne Air Station,…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
July 20, 2016
Military Aviation

Exclusive: all the details about the air ops and aerial battle over Turkey during the military coup to depose Erdogan

F-16s, KC-135Rs, A400Ms: known and unknown details about the night of the Turkey military coup. Here below is the account of what happened on Jul. 15, when a military takeover…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
July 18, 2016
Military Aviation

U.S. Army spyplane pops-up on Flightradar24 during mission south of the Korean DMZ

Online flight tracking reminds us that the secretive EO-5Cs regularly fly along the border between North and South Korea. The above screenshot was taken from Flightradar24 by Guglielmo Guglielmi, an…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
July 17, 2016
Military Aviation

Turkish F-16 patrolling the skies near Ankara could be tracked online

Quite surprisingly a Turkish Air Force F-16C Block 50 could be tracked on Flightradar24. In the morning on Jul. 16, when it was already enough clear that the military coup…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
July 16, 2016
Military Aviation

Crazy videos show Turkish Air Force F-16s flying at very low level among the buildings during military coup

Turkish Air Force F-16s performing show of force low passages over Ankara. With afterburners, nav lights, armament and releasing flares. Both bridges over the Bosphorus have been closed, tanks are…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
July 16, 2016
Aviation

Watch a DC-10 skirt the mountain tops to fight wildfires in Southern California

Some skills are needed to fly a "wide body" like that! The DC-10 Air Tanker is a standard McDonnell Douglas DC-10 airliner that was converted to carry up to 12,000…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
July 14, 2016
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