Mali
Mali Air War update
Not much media footage is coming out of Mali and the only means to get interesting updates about what is going in West Africa is through the images and videos released by the French Armed […]
C-17
Military Aviation
Mass mobility exercise with nearly 70 cargo planes at Nellis Air Force Base
On May 23, the U.S. Air Force Weapons School conducted its Mobility Forces Exercise, or MAFEX, at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Nearly 70 aircraft, primarily consisting of C-17 Globemaster III and C-130 Hercules aircraft, operated in the Nevada Test […]
Military Aviation
Video: This is how fuel supplies are air-dropped by C-17s in Afghanistan. And sometimes get wasted.
The following video shows how fuel (and many other things) are usually delivered to ground recovery teams in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Notice what happens at 0:42 s: it looks like something […]
Military Aviation
Night vision footage of U.S. Air Force C-17 dropping U.S. Army personnel onto a Drop Zone
U.S. Air Force C-17s dropping U.S. Army personnel from Fort Bragg, NC at Holland Drop Zone, Fort Bragg Pope Airfield, N.C. in support of Joint Operations Access Exercise JOAX 12-01. Take off, landing, unloading of […]
Military Aviation
[Updated] U.S. Special Forces raid in Somalia: no need for stealth choppers so did they parachute from a C-17?
Update Jan. 25 15:33GMT In the night between Jan. 24 and 25 a US joint Special Forces team (including the Navy SEALs) team freed two Western workers kidnapped in Somalia on Oct. 25, 2011. They […]
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