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Area 51-based F-16D Performs Rare Pass Through The Star Wars Canyons Hours After F-117 Is Spotted Chased By Two Seater F-16

November 25, 2017 David Cenciotti

This was probably the very same F-16 flying alongside an F-117 on Nov. 14, 2017. On Nov. 14 (the day after an F-117 was photographed on a trailer south of Creech AFB) at 09.20AM LT, […]

Have Indian Su-30s really “dominated” RAF Typhoons in aerial combat with a 12-0 scoreline? Most probably not.

August 8, 2015 David Cenciotti

Indian fighter jocks claim they have “humiliated” the RAF colleagues in mock aerial combat exercises conducted during Exercise Indradhanush 2015. “Our analysis does not match what has been reported” the RAF said. As we have […]

Weapons system video of first F-22 Raptor air strike on ISIS in Syria.

September 23, 2014 David Cenciotti

This video shows an attack on a ISIS compound that, according to the Pentagon, was struck by F-22 Raptors at their baptism of fire. Earlier today, the Pentagon released the imagery of a compound near […]

Pilots explain how the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger intercepted Soviet bombers in the 1950s

August 17, 2014 Dario Leone

The Convair F-102 was a delta-winged interceptor, that became the standard Air Defense Command (ADC) fighter starting in mid 1956. Nicknamed Delta Dagger, the Convair F-102, which was referred to as “The Deuce” by its […]

Poland about to upgrade its fleet of Mig-29 Fulcrum fighter jets

September 6, 2013 Jacek Siminski

It looks like Poland is about to upgrade its fleet of Mig-29s, again. In an interview for Interfax-AWN agency, Sergey Maxin, the CEO of Schwabe Co. (earlier named Optical systems and technologies) said that the […]