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Mass mobility exercise with nearly 70 cargo planes at Nellis Air Force Base

May 30, 2012 David Cenciotti 1

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 […]

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Video: This is how fuel supplies are air-dropped by C-17s in Afghanistan. And sometimes get wasted.

April 30, 2012 David Cenciotti 1

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 […]

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Night vision footage of U.S. Air Force C-17 dropping U.S. Army personnel onto a Drop Zone

April 2, 2012 David Cenciotti 0

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 […]

[Updated] U.S. Special Forces raid in Somalia: no need for stealth choppers so did they parachute from a C-17?

January 25, 2012 David Cenciotti 10

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 […]

Video: unidentified flying object trailing a C-17 over the U.S. West Coast

November 16, 2011 David Cenciotti 5

Recorded on Nov. 11, 2011 (or if you prefer on 11/11/11) this video shows an unknown object trailing a C-17 Globemaster III over the U.S. West Coast. Although it is obviously a UFO because it […]