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March 26, 2023 Declassified Video Shows How B-52 Crews Would Conduct Nuclear Strikes During Cold War Military Aviation
March 24, 2023 Italy One Step Closer To Convert Two ‘Green’ G-550s to EC-37B Compass Call Configuration Italian Air Force
March 23, 2023 First Four Slovak MiG-29 Jets Have Been Transferred To Ukraine Military Aviation
March 23, 2023 U.S. RC-135 Intelligence Gathering Jet Flying Unprecedented Mission Inside Finland’s Airspace Military Aviation
March 22, 2023 Prototype Of AW249 Attack Helicopter In Combat Livery Flies For The First time Helicopters

Videos show Ukrainian surveillance plane shot down by MANPADS (and crew jump from it)

June 6, 2014 David Cenciotti

A Ukrainian AN-30 reconaissance plane was shot down by MANPADS (Man Portable Air Defense System) in east Ukraine. On Jun. 6, a Ukrainian Air Force AN-30 (or AN-26), believed to carry out surveillance missions was […]

Russian An-30 spyplane crashes in Czech Republic during Open Skies mission

May 24, 2012 David Cenciotti

On May 23, at 11.50 LT, a Russian Air Force An-30B (registration 04 black) took fire after skidding off the runway on landing at the Czech air force base in Caslav, 20 miles east of […]