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Falklands War

The story of the SEAD Black Buck missions flown by Royal Air Force Vulcan bombers during the Falklands War

May 3, 2016 Dario Leone

SEAD missions, Vulcan style. The RAF Avro Vulcan was initially planned to be retired in early 1982 but the outbreak of the Falklands War, in April that year, postponed the withdrawal of the most distinctive […]

Wild Weasel
Military Aviation

First In, Last Out: The Story Of The SEAD Missions Flown By The F-105 in Vietnam

November 30, 2015 Dario Leone

Here’s why Wild Weasel missions were among the most dangerous sorties flown in Southeast Asia. During the Vietnam War the main threat to the strike packages was the V-750 (S-75) Dvina, the first effective Soviet surface-to-air missile […]

Military Aviation

You Gotta Be Shitting Me! The Story of the first U.S. SAM-hunters in Vietnam

March 13, 2014 Dario Leone

In addition to being the first of the so called “Century Series” fighters and the first U.S. Air Force plane able to reach supersonic speed in level flight, the North American F-100 Super Sabre was […]

Drones

The dawn of the robot age: U.S. Air Force testing air-launched UCAVs capable to fire Maverick and Shrike missiles in 1972.

March 14, 2012 David Cenciotti

There is people who believe that drones are quite recent players of modern warfare that were born to conduct what is widely known today as ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance). This video will prove they are […]

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