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Military Aviation

Camouflage color scheme works: F/A-18F Nearly Disappears in Rainbow Canyon!

This photo explains why combat planes still wear camouflaged color schemes! A unique U.S. Navy F/A-18F bearing a brown camouflage scheme has likely had many question why a US Navy…

Todd Miller Todd Miller
March 16, 2016
Military Aviation

A NATO E-3 AWACS has performed surveillance flights in the skies over Turkey while Russian planes withdrew from Syria

A NATO AWACS has conducted surveillance flights in the skies over Turkey. A NATO E-3 AWACS (Airborne Warning & Control System) has performed surveillance flights in the skies over Turkey as part…

Dario Leone Dario Leone
March 16, 2016
Russia

Here’s the first video of the Russian combat planes leaving Syria

The first group of Russian aircraft redeploying to Russia after Syria air war has left ‪‎Hmeymim‬ airbase. On Mar. 15, the Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei ‪‎Shoigu‬…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 15, 2016
Military Aviation

Here are the aircraft that could replace the A-10 Warthog in the CAS mission

The U.S. Air Force has launched a study to find the A-10 Thunderbolt II replacement. Given the U.S. Air Force plan to retire its A-10 fleet in 2022, the service…

Dario Leone Dario Leone
March 14, 2016
Military Aviation

A U.S. E-6B Doomsday Plane is using “Trump” as radio callsign while flying over central U.S. right now

By accident or not, a U.S. Navy E-6B is flying over CONUS using callsign "Trump." This is really interesting: at 18.15 GMT an E-6B Mercury (TACAMO - “TAke Charge And…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 13, 2016
Syria

SyAAF Mig-21 Fishbed hit by MANPADS over Syria

MANPADS once again lethal in Syria. On Mar. 12, a Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) Mig-21 Fishbed from Hama was shot down over Kafranboudah, Syria. According to the Russian MoD,…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 13, 2016
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