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December 2, 2020 First HH-139B Helicopter Delivered To The Italian Air Force Helicopters
December 1, 2020 Bolter, Waveoff And Final Trap Landing On USS Truman In New, Intense C-2A Greyhound Cockpit Video Aircraft Carriers
December 1, 2020 Secretive EC-27J JEDI EW Aircraft Supporting War On Daesh Breaks Cover On The Italian Air Force 2021 Calendar Iraq
November 30, 2020 Interesting Video Shows Nighttime Operations Near Area 51 Military Aviation
November 29, 2020 Let’s Talk About All The B-70 Valkyrie Variants Envisioned For The Mach 3 Superbomber Prior To Cancellation Military Aviation

F-16’s automatic ground collision avoidance system: details, strengths and limitations

February 2, 2015 Rocky Jedick

Ground Collision Avoidance Technology (GCAT) On a recent flight in a Block 40 F-16 with our squadron’s weapons officer I was introduced to the new pilot-activated recovery system (PARS). Starting at about 20,000 feet (FL […]

Star Wars Era to come: US Air Force to employ laser cannons on jets by 2030

November 22, 2013 Jacek Siminski

According to the recently published RFI (Request for Information), the ARFL (Air Force Research Laboratory) is looking forward to development of the laser weapons for next generation fighter jets. Even if this is an Air […]