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The images of the Tempest FCAS with the roundel surfaced online after the British Prime Minister’s visit to BAE Systems’ facility in Warton. Last week, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited BAE Systems’ facility [...]

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The Russian Navy MiG-31BM Foxhound interceptors flew over the North Pole within the framework of the current Arctic deployment. Two MiG-31BM Foxhound interceptors have flown over the North Pole, in what was a first for [...]

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This is what it looked like to fly low level in the front cockpit of an EA-6B Prowler on the first half of the VR-1355 low-level military training route in Western Washington in the Pacific [...]

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The Defence Review, which will radically transform the Royal Air Force, Army and Navy by the next decade, has been described as one of the largest since the Cold War. The UK’s government published the [...]

The post RAF Set To Retire Older Typhoons, Chinooks And Other Types Following The Defence Review. Here’s Our Analysis. appeared first on The Aviationist.

A photo of the Frecce Tricolori accompanied by two C-27J aircraft during an aerial photo shooting at dusk over northern Italy sent local media into a frenzy, fuelling crazy UFO theories. A low quality, blurred [...]

The post Blurred Photo Of “Weird Objects” Flying Over Italy Fuels Crazy UFO Theories. But It Was Just The Frecce Tricolori appeared first on The Aviationist.

The Italian aircraft carrier ITS Cavour has completed the “Sea Trials” with the two specially instrumented U.S. F-35B Lighting II aircraft of VX-23. Italy’s aircraft carrier ITS Cavour, the flagship of the Marina Militare (Italian [...]

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The Lynx helicopter was the backbone of the British Army and the Royal Navy before it was replaced by the AW159 Wildcat. On Mar. 21, 1971, the yellow prototype of the Westland Helicopters Lynx helicopter [...]

The post Leonardo Celebrates 50th Anniversary Since First Flight Of Iconic Lynx Helicopter appeared first on The Aviationist.

The Italian Air Force has flown a Eurofighter Typhoon in “Beast Mode” last week. And here are some interesting new photos. As we have already reported, on Mar. 19, 2021, an Italian Air Force (Aeronautica [...]

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The F-35B was damaged by the explosion of the ammunition round leaving the aircraft’s GAU-22 gun pod during a nighttime mission out of Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona. An F-35B with VMX-1, the U.S. [...]

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F-14 Tomcat, F/A-18 Hornet, A-6 Intruder, A-7 Corsair and many more types, all done in LEGO bricks. Last month, after publishing the article about the “Top Gun: Maverick” trailer recreated in LEGO bricks, I received [...]

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Even if they did not submit a helicopter design, Northrop Grumman might be a big part of the FVL (Future Vertical Lift) with a multitude of technologies being developed specifically for the program. As we [...]

The post CIRCM, Sky Viper And The Other Technologies Northrop Grumman Is Pitching For The Future Vertical Lift Program appeared first on The Aviationist.

The incident occurred as the Russian Air Force Tu-22M3 prepared for a mission at Shaikovka airfield, near Kaluga, Russia. Three crew members perished in an incident that occurred on Mar. 23, 2021, as the aircrew [...]

The post [Updated] Ejection Seats Activation During Preflight Operations On Russian Tu-22M3 Bomber Kills Three Crew Members appeared first on The Aviationist.

The plan to phase out the RAF C-130 Hercules fleet in a couple of years has been made official. The news, first disclosed by a Financial Times article titled “RAF Hercules fleet to be axed [...]

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The Israeli M-346 trainee pilots and WSOs had a chance to simulate missions from Israel’s wars to connect with their heritage at the end of their Operational Training Course. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) recently [...]

The post The Israeli M-346s Fought (Virtually) In The Six-Day War appeared first on The Aviationist.

The Norwegian Defense Materiel Agency has just released the first photos from a successful test conducted in February of the Joint Strike Missile (JSM). The first drop test of a Joint Strike Missile has been [...]

The post F-35A Carried Out First In-Flight Drop Of JSM (Joint Strike Missile) Anti-Ship And Land-Attack Missile appeared first on The Aviationist.

The Italian Air Force has integrated the GBU-48 Enhanced Paveway II bombs with the Eurofighter Typhoon fleet for “Swing Role” missions. The Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force) has published an interesting photo of a Eurofighter [...]

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A KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueler lost the refueling hose during Ex. Baltic Trident mission over Finland. And it was not the first time. A bizarre incident occurred to a U.S. Air Force KC-135 involved in [...]

The post Refueling Hose Of U.S. Air Force KC-135 Tanker Detaches And Falls To The Ground In Finland appeared first on The Aviationist.

On this date in 2011, “Odyssey Dawn”, as the allied air campaign in Libya was initially dubbed, began. Here’s our retrospective analysis. On Mar. 19, 2011, a medium scale operation to protect Libyan people from [...]

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One of the Tu-214ON aircraft used for Open Skies observations carried out a different type of surveillance mission near Crimea at the beginning of this month. The Tu-214ON (Otkrytoye Niebo – Open Skies) is a [...]

The post With Moscow Leaving Open Skies Treaty, Russia’s Tu-214ON Flies New Domestic Observation Mission Around Crimea appeared first on The Aviationist.

The “Ready for Operations” campaign continues with U.S. F-35B Lightning II aircraft from VX-23 loaded external stores, a configuration unofficially referred to as “Beast Mode”. Let’s explain it again: “Beast Mode” is not an official [...]

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