The scene of a plane crash in North Auburn, California, on April 18. Source: Lt. Andrew Scott/Placer County Sheriff-Coroner-Marshal’s Office The former mayor of a Northern Californian city who stepped down after he harshly criticized President Donald Trump and his supporters, died in a plane crash, the Sacramento Bee reported. Dr. …
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Over the past days, several UCAVs had been downed in Libya. On April 19, another unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) crashed in northern Libya. The April 19 UCAV crashes near the town of Alwashka. Pro-LNA sources immediately claimed that it was the TAI Anka UCAV produced by Turkey. https://twitter.com/LNA2019M/status/1251876366024413188 Contary …
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B-52, B-1 & B-2 – Credits: US Strategic Command The U.S. Air Force has ended its uninterrupted rotations of bombers to Andersen Air Force Base on Guam, which have been ongoing since 2004, as it shifts to a less predictable concept of operations. The Air Force announced April 17 it …
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Credits: Top Gun Just like their Top Gun characters, Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise had a little bit of a rivalry behind the scenes. In an excerpt obtained by Closer Weekly, the Tombstone star said he and Tom fell into different circles on set. “We were the party boys,” he explained. “Every night …
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A screenshot from the surveillance video filmed at NDjamena. On Apr. 17, 2020 a Chadian Air Force Su-25 Frogfoot accidentally fired a rocket at French C-130H parked at Base Aérienne Kossei NDjamena, Chad. The rocket accidentally fired by a Chadian Air Force Su-25 Frogfoot struck an empty tanker truck, missed …
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Credits: the-war-zone Don Kirlin is the owner of Air USA the most advanced private air force in the world. Kirlin has reached thereafter building his fleet bit by bit over the last 30 years. Kirlin’s company, Air USA, recently bought 46 Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) F/A-18 Hornets. Air USA …
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Credits: yema Yema is a French watchmaking company based in Besançon, France. Since the 1970s, French watchmaker YEMA has worked in partnership with the French Air Force, supplying the military branch with high-performance timepieces to assist them in their operations. Now officially renewing their partnership, the brand has created a …
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Gen. Mike Holmes, the commander of Air Combat Command, congratulates Capt. Kristin “BEO” Wolfe, the new F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team pilot (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Kip Sumner). Lockheed Martin has reported that it trained the 1,000th pilot and 9,000th maintainer for the F-35 Lightning II program. More …
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Photo caption: The picture shows the first fully automated refuelling contacts between an Airbus tanker test aircraft and a Portuguese Air Force F-16 fighter jet. Credits: airbus Airbus has achieved the first-ever fully automatic air-to-air refueling (A3R) operation with a boom system. The flight test campaign, conducted earlier in the …
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Credits: Rob Schleiffert – Mirage F1BD Via Wikipedia A Mirage F1 fighter jet from the Government of National Accord (GNA) is said to have been shot down by an air defence system of the Libyan National Army (LNA). The LNA’s air defenses, using their Russian-made Pantsir-S system, shot down the French-made Mirage …
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