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The Navy is making lethality enhancing “modifications” to its next several new Ford-class aircraft carriers, to include integrated “digital shipbuilding” and weapons-oriented adjustments intended to further increase overall aircraft carrier combat effectiveness. The initiatives, according to Navy statements, involve specific aircraft carrier modifications intended to, among other things, improve the …

The blurry photograph in the post shows an F-4 Phantom flying inverted during an intercept/escort mission on a Russian Tu-95 Bear. The image brought to mind one of the most famous scenes in the Top Gun movie. The photograph was shot by Robert M. Sihler, who was so kind to …

The Indian Air force is still flying 44-year-old MiG-21 fighter jets when no one even drives cars that old, Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa said today. Questions have been raised about the four-decade-old fighter planes that remain the core of India’s defence fleet since a recent dogfight at the Line …

Here is a Remarkable Cockpit Video Of USAF Thunderbirds Nailing A Perfect “High Bomb Burst Cross”. Video Shows Four F-16s Converging in Dramatic Crossing Maneuver. This new video, shot from inside Thunderbird #2, flown by “Left-Wing” in the diamond formation, USAF Major Will Graef, provides some sense of the rate …

Capt. Anneliese Satz is the Marine Corps’ first-ever female F-35B Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter jet pilot. The 29-year-old from Boise, Idaho, has spent the past four years training as a naval aviator. The Marine Corps announced in a press release last week that Satz, 29, of Boise, Idaho, completed …

  Brazil Air Force very first Saab JAS39E Gripen for the Força Aerea Brasileira (FABr, Brazil Air Force) was seen recently with Saab AB at Linköping-Vårdsberg. The Gripen, in Brazil named the F-39 is registered 4100. The aircraft is currently undergoing installation of the avionics, auxiliary power unit, engine, radar, …

on Aug. 16, 2019, at 4:09 PM a California-based aviation expert and photographer Chris McGreevy Spotted a Mysterious F-117 Nighthawk Fuselage Under Protective Cover near the joint military/civilian use Palmdale Regional Airport outside Palmdale, California. “It was just outside USAF Plant 42 in Palmdale Ca. I’m guessing they trucked it down …

Hollywood action film star Tom Cruise was filming for the upcoming Top Gun Sequel “Top Gun: Maverick”. on July 18, 2019, Tom Cruise Makes Surprise Appearance At Comic-Con with first ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Trailer. Top Gun: Maverick had an initial release date of July 12, 2019, but was pushed back almost …

Here are couple of Crazy guys got their hands on a lone Boeing 747 Rolls Royce RB211 Engine and rigged it up in their backyard. To the astonishment of everyone they actually got it to work when they hooked it up. I’ve got to warn you things get pretty crazy …

Antarctica is Earth’s southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14,200,000 square kilometres (5,500,000 square miles), it is the fifth-largest continent and nearly …