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Royal Air Force Typhoon Test-fires latest SPEAR 3 Cruise Missile in Sweden
A Typhoon operated jointly by BAE Systems and the RAF’s 41 Test and Evaluation squadron has successfully demonstrated the ...
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McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) F-15E Strike Eagle
The F-15E Strike Eagle is a multirole strike fighter developed from the F-15 Eagle air superiority fighter, a plane that was designed primarily for air combat and with little cons ...
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F-16 Cockpit Collapsible ACE Ladder Wins Air Force Innovation Competition
F-16 pilot developed a cockpit stowable collapsible ladder to aid Agile Combat Employment operations. At a time when the U.S. Air Force is heavily ...
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Northrop Grumman Delivers First SiAW Test Missile to the U.S. Air Force
The delivery of the first test missile to the Air Force marks the beginning of flight testing to verify the safe interaction ...
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Italian Typhoons Deployed for NATO BAP Mission Perform First Air-to-Ground Activity
The Italian Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons flew a training mission at a Lithuanian range with the Litening V LDP (Laser ...
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As General Atomics, Anduril Wingmen Drones Clear USAF Critical Design Review, Let’s Look at how Modern Wars are Informing the CCA Program
Air Force Materiel Command’s Col. Timothy M. Helfrich broke down what might constitute the Increment 1 and Increment 2 of the ...
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Rin Sakurai
Rin Sakurai is a military aviation photographer and contributor to The Aviationist. Although interested in anything to do ...
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Drunk British Soldiers Caught Engaging in Sexual Acts Inside Apache Helicopter Cockpit
A newly released report has revealed a 2016 incident where two soldiers were discovered naked from the waist down inside the ...
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Airbus Plans Eurofighter Manned-Unmanned Teaming Testbed
The STAR demonstrator will be used to test MUM-T capabilities with the Eurofighter Typhoon, thanks to technologies developed ...
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U.S. Navy’s Fleet Readiness Center East Inducts First CMV-22B Osprey for Planned Maintenance
With the start of the first Planned Maintenance Interval 1 service to the CMV-22B aircraft, the depot now services all three ...
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For the First Time, a General Atomics Gray Eagle STOL UAV Took Off from a South Korean Amphibious Assault Ship
The Gray Eagle STOL was transported onto the Dokdo disassembled a week earlier and, after a week of testing, performed the ...
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U.S. KC-135 Refuels RMAF Sukhoi Su-30 Fighters In Historic First
This marks the first publicly acknowledged instance of a U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker refueling a Russian-made Su-30MKM ...