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Military Aviation

Watch this AC-130W gunship’s aircrew fire with 30mm automatic cannon (with raw sound)

Join this AC-130W aircrew as it performs a live fire training mission. The following clip shows an AC-130W Stinger II aircrew from the 73rd Special Operations Squadron  providing night air support at Emerald…

Dario Leone Dario Leone
December 14, 2015
Military Aviation

GoPro video: aboard French Rafale dogfighting alongside RAF Typhoons and US F-22s during TrilatEx

Join a French Air Force Dassault Rafale during a Trilateral Exercise sortie. Underway from Dec. 2 to 18, the inaugural Trilateral anti-access/area denial exercise sees U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor,…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 12, 2015
Airshows

Stunning Air-to-Air photographs of the Latvian Baltic Bees Aerobatic Display Team

The Baltic Bees Jet Team is an aerobatic team which took part in several events in Poland this year. Here are some amazing air-to-air shots of the team, taken in…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
December 11, 2015
Military Aviation

Stunning Photos Show the F-22 Raptor training with the Eurofighter Typhoon and Dassault Rafale in the U.S.

NATO's three most advanced combat planes flying together during exercise. The photographs in this post were taken recently in the skies near Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. They show a…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 10, 2015
Russia

All you need to know about the Russian Intervention in Syria in one stunning Infographic

Here's the new version of the infographic about Russia's air war in Syria. At the end of October we posted the first version of this infographic about the Russian Intervention…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 9, 2015
Aviation Safety

Impressive video of an XB-70 Valkyrie Mach 3 bomber’s emergency landing

The incredible story of how a paperclip avoided the loss of an XB-70 Valkyrie. On Apr. 30, 1966, the second XB-70 prototype, the Air Vehicle 2 (AV 2), suffered a…

Dario Leone Dario Leone
December 9, 2015
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