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September 7, 2024 U.S, Europe Are Helping Ukraine Develop Substitute for S-300 Air Defense System and R-27 Missile Troubled Areas
September 7, 2024 RTX Fined $200M for Leak of F-22, F-35, B-2, E-3 And Other Aircraft’s Data to Russia, Iran, China Military Aviation
September 7, 2024 Highest-time A-10 Pilot Retires After 37 Years Of Service And 7,500 Hours In The Warthog Military Aviation
September 6, 2024 First Ever Sling Load Training with the HH-60W Jolly Green II at Moody Air Force Base Helicopters
September 6, 2024 Turkey’s ANKA III UCAV Flies with Munition for the First Time Drones

Watch This: Antonov An-225 Mriya, World’s Heaviest Aircraft, Breaks Perimeter Fence At RAF Brize Norton

June 24, 2021 David Cenciotti

This is what happens when you are a bit too close to an An-225 Mriya. Designed at the end of Cold War to carry the Soviet “Buran” space shuttle and parts of the “Energiya” carrier-rocket […]

Royal Air Force pays tribute to the "queen of the skies" VC-10 with a three-ship flypast across the UK

August 30, 2012 Richard Clements

In 1960, the RAF issued Specification 239 for a strategic transport, which during September 1961 resulted in an order for five VC-10’s from Vickers- Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd. The VC-10 was an airliner designed for high […]