At Red Flag, the international training exercise for air forces of allied countries, many of the world’s best pilots meet for the most challenging flying of their careers.
This is a feature length film in a world (The Internet) of short fluff. If you like flying… if you are curious about Red Flag… then watch [...]
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For a moment, the pirates might have thought that they had really struck gold “Somalia-style.”
The gun-toting, seafaring thieves, who routinely pounce on cargo ships bobbing along on the Indian Ocean, suddenly found themselves in command of a vessel crammed with $30 million worth of grenade launchers, piles of ammunition, even battle tanks.
But this time, they [...]
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I was passed this video posted on iReport:
…was standing in Arlington Cemetery in V.A when a huge storm was rolling in. I noticed these Air force soldiers standing so perfectly still. As the weather took a turn for the worse, these magnificent soldiers stood there ground. I was truly amazing to see them just standing [...]
Ok… in the world today there are many hot spots and problems that sometimes doesn’t really reach the news. Sometimes they are full on gun battles, and in this situation that PointNiner pointed out, its a “what us?” moment…
In this video a Russian MiG-29 fighter aircraft shows up, squeezes off an little air-to-air missle [...]
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The world’s first attack aircraft to employ stealth technology is slipping quietly into history.Technicians service an F-117 stealth fighter after it arrived at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, on Monday.
The inky black, angular, radar-evading F-117, which spent 27 years in the Air Force arsenal secretly patrolling hostile skies from Serbia to Iraq, [...]
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The French are famous for surrendering. Whether they give up in battle, or just in politics. They have gathered the reputation for this. Even though Napoleon had some great victories, and did his best to take over the world. Real Life Comics did a great job expressing this view.
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When one thinks of a blog now-a-days generally one thinks of news or entertaining articles. But they were started as sort of an online diary. Well I just ran across a blog of a more classic sort. The relative of a English Soldier in the trenches of WWI has taken his grandfather’s [...]
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Van Gilder took some awesome pictures last year. In a rare fly over by a P-51, A-10, F-15 and also a F-22 at Edwards Airforce Base. He had a quick camera and got a number of very nice photos. (including the sample here) So click on over and see these great shots.
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For decades sub technology has been one of the most highly sought and most closely guarded of US Military secrets.
Whenever the submarine is brought into the graving dock for service, one of the first things that they do is cover the propeller with a tarp so that it can not be photographed. Evidently, if [...]
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During Vietnam is wsa common for troops to see prop driven planes coming in to either mark for jets or to be the actual support. They just found jets flew too fast for a lot of missions.
Well in Iraq the “private security” seem to be the first to realize it’ll be good to have [...]
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