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Two U.S. B-52s of Bomber Task Force 20-4 Fly Mission In Moroccan Airspace Before Landing at Spanish Airbase

The Aviationist Blog - Tue, 08/09/2020 - 13:00
The Stratofortresses deployed to RAF Fairford, UK, have flown a training mission over Northwestern Africa. On Sept. 7, 2020, two U.S. B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers, belonging to the 5th Bomb Wing, from Minot Air Force [...]
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Video of a committee meeting - Monday, 7 September 2020 - 13:45 - Subcommittee on Security and Defence

Length of video : 130'

Disclaimer : The interpretation of debates serves to facilitate communication and does not constitute an authentic record of proceedings. Only the original speech or the revised written translation is authentic.
Source : © European Union, 2020 - EP

Check Out These Amazing Photos Of A U.S. C-17 Globemaster III Flying Low Level Through The Lake District LFA In UK

The Aviationist Blog - Mon, 07/09/2020 - 15:47
You don’t see cargo aircraft flying at low level too often! The stunning shots in this article were shot on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020, by photographer Simon Pearson-Cougill from Dunmail Raise, in the Lake District, [...]
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Terrifying Video Filmed Aboard Atlas Air B767 During Emergency Following Engine Failure After Take Off From Honolulu

The Aviationist Blog - Sun, 06/09/2020 - 23:21
The military chartered flight with 212 people on board performed an emergency landing after an in-flight engine shut down, shortly after departing from Honolulu. On Sept. 5, 2020, an Atlas Air Boeing 767-300, N649GT, flying [...]
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Royal Air Force To Get New AESA Radars for the Eurofighter Typhoon

The Aviationist Blog - Sun, 06/09/2020 - 21:41
The new radar, called European Common Radar System Mark 2, will enter service in the mid-2020s. The Royal Air Force signed a £ 317 million (about USD 421 million) contract with Leonardo and BAE Systems [...]
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Portuguese F-16s Deployed to Malbork, Poland, For NATO Enhanced Baltic Air Policing

The Aviationist Blog - Sat, 05/09/2020 - 11:45
Portuguese Vipers have arrived in Poland. The Portuguese Air Force has deployed four F-16M Vipers from Monte Real Air Base, Portugal, to 22 Baza Lotnictwa Taktycznego at Malbork Air Base in Poland, along with around [...]
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Three U.S. B-52s Fly Mission Over Ukraine’s Sea of Azov Coast In A Clear Show Of Force Toward Russia

The Aviationist Blog - Fri, 04/09/2020 - 15:40
The U.S. strategic bombers, tracking online, have flown inside Ukrainian airspace and operated quite close to the border with Crimea. One week after taking part in the one-day Allied Sky mission that saw 6 B-52s [...]
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Taiwan MOD “Solemnly Refutes” Internet Reports That Taiwan Shot Down a Chinese Su-35 That Violated Its Airspace

The Aviationist Blog - Fri, 04/09/2020 - 12:43
It looks like the news of a Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Su-35 shot down by a Taiwanese ADS (Air Defense System) is fake. The news that Taiwan brought down a Chinese Air [...]
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USMC RQ-21A Blackjack Drones Supported USAF B-1B and B-2’s Long-Range Air Strikes During Australian Drills

The Aviationist Blog - Thu, 03/09/2020 - 18:18
The Marine Corps Blackjack UASs (Unmanned Aerial Systems) supported Australian Army joint terminal attack controllers (JTACs) coordinating air U.S. Air Force B-1B and B-2 Spirit bombers’ long-distance airstrikes during recent exercise in Australia. The U.S. [...]
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Collective simulations for improved air training ​

EDA News - Thu, 03/09/2020 - 15:32

A new EDA research project, for which the Agency Steering Board has just given its go-ahead, will help participating Member States’ Armed Forces to step up their collaborative air training & exercise capabilities thanks to improved modelling and simulation.

The overarching aim of the project called MAJES (Modelling and simulation as a service applications for Air and Joint Exercises & Simulation) is to develop an interconnected and interacting system/network that will allow the military of participating Member States to perform training simulations for coalition operations in a distributed manner from different locations. This will allow much more realistic conditions than in the past when simulations were traditionally configurated and done locally, in isolation, which meant they were mostly unable to take into account external factors and changes and requested participating Member States to meet physically in specific training centres.

MAJES will thus help Member States in the preparation, execution and after-service of collective (but not physically joint) military trainings and exercises for air and joint operations using LVC (Live-Virtual-Constructive) technologies which suppose a mix of physical and simulated assets, including virtual adversaries. This will support as well the management and control of so-called ‘Battlelabs’ (digital distributed defence laboratories) for the concept, development and testing of System of Systems (such as the next 5th generation aircraft systems - FCAS) supporting experiment plan and data farming automation. The project also aims to improve the data collection from exercises for Artificial Intelligence learning in this distributed simulated environment which allows cooperation without joint physical presence.

The project will run over 36 months, starting from the signing of the project contract expected to take place early next year. Three countries are participating so far: France, the Netherlands and Norway (which is not an EDA Member State but has concluded an Administrative Agreement with the Agency). Industry from the participating countries is also involved.

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The Amazing Growler Ball 2020 Video Teases An EA-18G Cyber Attack Capability That Is Yet To Come

The Aviationist Blog - Wed, 02/09/2020 - 22:20
This year’s Growler Ball provides an opportunity to discuss the EA-18G’s ability to launch cyber attacks and hack enemy networks. As our readers know very well, the “Ball” series (“Hornet Ball”, “Rhino Ball”, “Strike Fighter [...]
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F-22, F-35A, and two P-51s Take Part In Heritage Flight During The New York International “Drive In” Air Show

The Aviationist Blog - Tue, 01/09/2020 - 23:10
The “American Dream” over Orange County, New York. The New York International Air Show was held at Orange County Airport in New York last week end. The air show was held in a “drive in” [...]
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Will A Future Air Force One Be Hypersonic? New Contracts Explore Feasibility.

The Aviationist Blog - Tue, 01/09/2020 - 00:14
Exosonic Awarded Contract to Study Low-Boom Supersonic VIP Transport. Will future diplomats and U.S. Presidents jet around the world at supersonic speeds to conduct a new version of ultra-fast “shuttle diplomacy”? If a new contract [...]
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