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The Last F-2000 Typhoon of the Italian Air Force Has Been Delivered By Leonardo. On Oct. 23, 2020, the last Eurofighter Typhoon for the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force) was officially handed over during a [...]

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The F-16AM with a Special Tail is from the 10 Wing of Kleine Brogel Air Base in Belgium. On Oct. 21, 2020, the Belgian Air Force unveiled an F-16AM Fighting Falcon with a special colored [...]

The post Here’s The F-16AM That Celebrates The 45th Anniversary Of The F-16 Multinational Fighter Program appeared first on The Aviationist.

An interesting video shows the two F-117s which have recently deployed to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar departing for a mission in Southern California. On Tuesday Oct. 20, 2020, two F-117s, using radio callsign “KNIGHT”, [...]

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The iconic USMC attack helicopter is replaced by the upgraded AH-1Z Viper after 34 years of service and almost one million flight hours. The United States Marine Corps retired the AH-1W Super Cobra with an [...]

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You have probably seen the pics. Here’s a video of an F-117 landing at Miramar. As already reported, on Tuesday Oct. 20, 2020, two F-117 Nighthawk stealth jets made a surprise visit to Marine Corps [...]

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The F-117 saga continues. Two Nighthawks have landed at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar outside San Diego. On Oct. 20, 2020, two F-117s have made a surprise visit to MCAS Miramar. Using their usual [...]

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The first STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) aircraft of the Aeronautica Militare has taken part to training activity in the Sardinian ranges for the first time. From Sept. 21 to Oct. 2, 2020, seven [...]

The post The First Italian Air Force F-35B Deploys To “Deci” Air Weapons Training Installation For The First Time appeared first on The Aviationist.

The secretive stealth aircraft is being developed entirely as a national project with international support reduced to the bare minimum. Images of a scale model of the Indian Air Force Ghatak UCAV (Unmanned Combat Air [...]

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Pakistani F-7PG and Mirage III-DP Practice Flight Ops from Forward Area. It seems like there have been a lot of videos shared lately of air forces around the world conducting training exercises from roadways. Air [...]

The post Check Out This Interesting Video of Pakistani Mirage III and F-7PG Jets During Road Runway Operations appeared first on The Aviationist.

This was the first time the open-source container-orchestration system has flown on an operational major weapon system in the Department of Defense. In what was the first time the system has flown on an operational [...]

The post The U.S. Air Force Has Tested Kubernetes On A U-2 Dragon Lady Spyplane appeared first on The Aviationist.

Boom XB-1 Is Technology Demonstrator/Testbed for New “Low Boom” SST (supersonic transport). The new Boom Supersonic XB-1 test aircraft was rolled out for the first time today, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020 at the company’s headquarters [...]

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Looks like the DB-110 Pod Is not Enough For the Polish Air Force. The Armament Inspectorate of the Polish Ministry of Defense announced a launch of a procurement procedure, on Oct. 6, 2020, aimed at [...]

The post Poland to Procure Synthetic Aperture Radar Pods for Its F-16s? appeared first on The Aviationist.

Former Director of The Fastest, Most Secretive Reconnaissance Program Lt. Col. Szczepanik Talks to The Aviationist. Only 86 pilots and 86 Reconnaissance Systems Operators (RSOs) in the world have flown the iconic Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird [...]

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The CC-295 Will Replace The CC-115 Buffalo And CC-130H Hercules Currently Used For SAR The Royal Canadian Air Force received on September 25 the new CC-295W Kingfisher, as the Airbus C295W is locally designated, at [...]

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Contributing factors to the loss were Helmet Mounted Display misalignment; pilot’s cognitive degradation due to fatigue and lack of systems knowledge on flight control logic. On Sept. 30, 2020, the U.S. Air Force released the [...]

The post Investigation Report Points To Landing Speed As Main Cause Of Loss Of F-35A At Eglin AFB Valued 176M USD appeared first on The Aviationist.

Obscure XV-5A Vertifan Was The “Mistake” That Preceded Tiltrotors Like Osprey. It was a gateway design to both the F-35B STOVL (Short Take-Off and Verical Landing) variant and the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor. Its performance was [...]

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Several spotters have noticed interesting weapon markings on some of the Buzzards “Vipers” deployed to the UK. Last week, the F-16s of the 31st Fighter Wing, from Aviano Air Base, Italy, have started returning home [...]

The post Let’s Have A Look At The GBU-39 SDB And APKWS Markings Sported By The F-16s Of The 510th FS “Buzzards” appeared first on The Aviationist.

This contract adds to the other two awarded to the company for training at Luke and Holloman Air Force Bases As we reported in the past, the U.S. Air Force is contracting the adversary training [...]

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The Drone, Called Sparrowhawk, Is A Demonstrator That Replicates Technologies Of The DARPA Gremlins Program. General Atomics (GA-ASI) recently announced the first captive carry test of the Sparrowhawk Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS). The test [...]

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Over 65 WWII warbirds were gathered for the Arsenal of Democracy Flyover of Washington DC but the weather did not cooperate. After years of preparation, the 2020 Arsenal of Democracy Flyover was canceled due to [...]

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