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September 26, 2023 Northrop Grumman Will Develop A New Advanced Stand-in Attack Weapon For The F-35 F-35
September 26, 2023 Eurofighter Confident Its Typhoon Is ‘The Most Attractive Solution For Poland’ Military Aviation
September 25, 2023 The U.S Air Force’s Legendary Fighter Competition ‘William Tell’ Has Returned Military Aviation
September 24, 2023 Fortnite’s Game Engine Is Helping Boeing Upgrading The B-52 Military Aviation
September 23, 2023 RNLAF And NATO Join Forces For Falcon Leap Exercise And Op. Market Garden Commemoration Military Aviation

“We Did Barrel Rolls Around Tu-95s At The Request Of The Soviets”: USAF F-4 WSO Explains

December 9, 2017 David Cenciotti

Here are some memories from the Weapon Systems Officer who shot the famous photograph of the F-4 flying inverted near a Soviet Tu-95 Bear bomber. Last week we have published a blurry shot of a […]

How the U.S. F-15s intercepted Russian Bear bombers in the GIUK Gap: tensions and hilarious moments above Iceland

August 4, 2014 Dario Leone

The tight gap between Greenland Iceland and the UK (“GIUK Gap”) was once the main “highway” used by Soviet bombers and maritime reconnaissance aircraft flying to Cuba, monitoring NATO maritime activities or simply probing local […]