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The Artificial Intelligence-powered Loyal Wingman Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for the Royal Australian Air Force will be also independent from runways. Boeing Australia recently announced that the Loyal Wingman unmanned aircraft developed for the Royal Australian [...]

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How the rapid increase in computing power and affordability of advanced technologies are driving the move from legacy analog EW systems to new digital ones. A recent feature by Northrop Grumman provided some interesting insights [...]

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The honorificence was awarded for significantly promoting and supporting Naval Aviation with the Top Gun films. Tom Cruise and Jerry Bruckheimer, respectively leading actor and producer of the Top Gun films, were awarded the title [...]

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The U.S. airlifter performed a successful emergency landing at Kandahar, Afghanistan. The following video was reportedly filmed on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020, when a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft experienced a nose gear [...]

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Gripen E Officially Presented During The Brazilian Air Force Day. On Oct. 23, 2020, the first Saab Gripen E, designated F-39E Gripen by the Brazilian Air Force, made its official debut during the celebrations of [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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