Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses

The story of the SEAD Black Buck missions flown by Royal Air Force Vulcan bombers during the Falklands War

May 3, 2016 Dario Leone 0

SEAD missions, Vulcan style. The RAF Avro Vulcan was initially planned to be retired in early 1982 but the outbreak of the Falklands War, in April that year, postponed the withdrawal of the most distinctive […]

Mesmerizing Time Lapse video shows sky over Nevada painted by combat planes during Red Flag

August 17, 2015 David Cenciotti 2

This is what happens after dark in the sky over Coyote Summit, near Area 51, in Nevada, during a Red Flag. Coyote Summit is a place in the Nevada desert just south of the small […]

An unusual view of Exercise Red Flag at Night, from Nevada Desert

August 14, 2014 Todd Miller 0

The night operations have become a mainstay of Red Flag. Given most modern air campaigns begin with night operations, these Red Flag exercises are a valuable training opportunity for pilots and crews to safely experience […]

You Gotta Be Shitting Me! The Story of the first U.S. SAM-hunters in Vietnam

March 13, 2014 Dario Leone 11

In addition to be the first of the so called “Century Series” fighters and the first U.S. Air Force plane able to reach supersonic speed in level flight, the North American F-100 Super Sabre was […]

U.S. F-16s tasked to destroy enemy radars, missile batteries to get the same radar-absorbing paint job of the F-35

August 30, 2012 David Cenciotti 3

All the U.S. “Wild Weasel” F-16s are being given a new paint job similar to the one of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. It is called “Have Glass 5th generation” as it represents the evolution […]