[Updated] Video: Syrian Air Ilyushin 76 unloading "goods" at Hamah airbase....
Update Mar. 8 19.30 GMT Recorded on Mar. 2, 2012, the following video shows a Syrian Air Il-76 unloading vehicles and weapons (according to the Youtube title), at Hamah airbase, in western Syria....
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Latest updates from Syria: tank shelling on Homs and new video from Hamah...
After publishing the Special feature: all the weapons used by the Syrian regime on Homs, Bjørn Holst Jespersen, a contributor of The Aviationist, has continued to analyse the footage of the Syrian...
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First images of Mig-21s in Free Libya Air Force markings
Update Apr. 21, 2012 10.15 GMT The following Reuters images, taken on the runway at Tammahint, 15 km (9 miles) from the southern Libyan city of Sabha, on Apr. 3, 2012, are the first ones showing Libyan...
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482 such planes have crashed in 30 years. There is someone risking a lot more...
As already explained in a previous post, there’s a very small number of U.S. combat pilots who have asked not to fly the F-22 Raptor fighter jets, or to be reassigned to other units, because of the...
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Syria refuses its Mig-21 back unless the pilot comes with it
Jordanian news website Ammonnews, has reported that “Syria has informed Jordan that it either returns the Mig-21 fighter jet and the pilot, or doesn’t want the “abducted” plane, it would stay in...
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Renascent Libyan Air Force strikes smuggler camps near the border with Chad...
According to the Libyan Herald, on Dec. 18, Libyan airforce jets hit a camp possibly used by suspected smugglers located close to the border with Chad and Sudan, not far from Kufra. The strike took...
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Assad regime has turned combat planes into WMD-armed drones
According to Israel Hayom daily, the Mig-21 fighter jet flown by a defecting Syrian pilot to Jordan last June was found to have been modified by the Syrian Arab Air Force to carry weapon of mass...
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Stunning MiG-21 Highway Operations in the Polish equivalent of Top Gun
Regarding the last post about the Korean MiG-21s’ highway operations here’s another interesting thing. It is a fragment of a Polish movie Na Niebie i Na Ziemii (In the Sky & On the Ground) which is...
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Operation Bolo: how U.S. F-4C Phantoms disguised as F-105 bombers set a trap...
The famous mission planned to lure North Vietnamese MiGs into air-to-air combat.During the last months of 1966 the North Vietnamese MiG-21s from Phuc Yen airfield claimed several victories against the...
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Surreal aerial footage of old Soviet warbirds in the east of Germany (filmed...
Extremely cool footage of some old Soviet combat planes in a Cold War atmosphere.Here’s a really interesting footage filmed by a quadcopter drone with some surreal close ups of MiG-15, MiG-17, MiG-21,...
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How to survive in a dogfight, alone against six MiGs: the lesson learned from...
An incredible air-to-air engagement, where one U.S. pilot alone survived to six North Vietnamese MiGs.A true milestone in the progress of naval aviation, the Vought F-8 has been one of the few...
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North Korea hosts first air show ever
As U.S. B-1Bs fly south of the DMZ, the rather geriatric North Korean aircraft take part in the nation’s first-ever airshow in Wonsan. Last weekend North Korea hosted its first-ever air show at the...
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The Indian Air Force Claims A MiG-21 Bison Managed To Shoot Down A Pakistan...
According to the IAF, the MiG-21 pilot who was captured yesterday took out a PAF F-16 before being shot down. Let’s start with a disclaimer: in the last couple of days there have been a [...] The post...
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Romanian MiG-21 Crashes. SAR Helicopter Dispatched To Rescue Its Pilot...
A Puma helicopter that was launched to search and rescue a missing MiG-21 pilot crashed killing 7 crew members. MiG pilot still missing. Mar. 2, 2022, was a tragic day for the Romanian Air Force. [...]...
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Two Aviano F-16s Deployed To Croatia After Soviet-Era Drone From Ukraine...
The U.S. Air Force F-16s from Aviano AB deployed to Croatia to operate with the local MiG-21s in the days that followed the mysterious Tu-141 drone crash. Two F-16s belonging to the 31st Fighter Wing...
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