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Check Out These Photos Of The Blue Angels Flying The Diamond Formation With The Super Hornets For The First Time

November 25, 2020 David Cenciotti

The Blue Angels have started preparing the 2021 flight demonstration season with the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. As we already reported, the Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Team, flew their final formation flight with […]

CMV-22B Osprey Makes First Ever Landings And Take-Offs From An Aircraft Carrier

November 23, 2020 David Cenciotti

For first time, a new CMV-22B Osprey carried out landings and take-offs from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. On Nov. 22, 2020, a CMV-22B tilt-rotor aircraft of the “Titans” of Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission […]

First Blue Angels F/A-18C Has Arrived At The National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center

November 19, 2020 David Cenciotti

One of the Blue Angels “Legacy” F/A-18C Hornet has joined the collection of the National Air and Space Museum. On Nov. 18, 2020, an F/A-18C of the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, piloted by Cmdr. […]

A U.S. Navy Destroyer Has Shot Down an Incoming ICBM For the First Time.

November 18, 2020 Tom Demerly

USS John Finn Shoots Down ICBM Outside of Atmosphere with Missile Shot. The U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS John Finn (DDG-113) became the first ship to successfully shoot down an incoming ICBM (intercontinental […]

The U.S. Navy Completes Tests Of The New Tactical Combat Training System (TCTS) Increment II Pod

November 17, 2020 Stefano D'Urso

The New Tactical Combat Training System (TCTS) Increment II ACMI pod will replace the current TCTS/P5CTS pod used for training by Navy, Marines and Air Force. NAVAIR (Naval Air Systems Command) recently announced that the […]