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The B-1B lancer entered service in 1986 and was designed as a strategic bomber with supersonic speed. Photo by Senior Airman Jeffrey Withrow Thirty-five years ago, the first B-1B Lancer long-range, multi-mission, supersonic conventional bomber was delivered to the U.S. Air Force. The Strategic Air Command received the first operational Rockwell …

58 years ago today Soviet pilot flying Mikoyan-Gurevich E-152 set the world record for speed over a 15/25 kilometer straight course According to This Day In aviation website, Colonel Georgy Konstantinovich Mosolov, Hero of the Soviet Union, flew the Mikoyan-Gurevich E-152\1 to a two-way average speed of 2,681 kilometers per …

Pakistan Air Force Mirage fighter jet on the runway – U.S. Air Force photo by Lt. Col. Michael Shavers As told by Tom Cooper & Sergio Santana in their book Lebanese Civil War Volume 1: Palestinian Diaspora, Syrian and Israeli Interventions, 1970-1978, only months after the delivery of Dassault Mirage …

The Blue Angels’ pilots and crew posing with their new C-130J. (Photo: U.S. Navy Blue Angels) After just a little over a year since the replacement was announced, the Blue Angels are preparing to receive the new C-130J that will replace the C-130T “Fat Albert”. The Blue Angels released the …

A French air force Rafale-B aircraft – Credits: Capt. Jason Smith Libya’s UN-recognised government on Sunday condemned overnight air raids against a recently recaptured airbase in the west of the country saying the attack was carried out by a “foreign air force”. “The raids last night against Al-Watiya base were …

Two Italian F-35s flying in formation with a Challenger CL-604 of the Royal Danish Air Force. The aircraft in the background wears the old coating, while the one in the foreground wears the new one. (Photo: Royal Danish Air Force) Italian Air Force’s F-35As are currently deployed in Iceland for …

A front view of a MiG-31 on the ramp of Khotilovo airbase, Tver region – Credits: Vitaly Kuzmin The Mikoyan MiG-31 NATO reporting name: Foxhound is a supersonic interceptor aircraft developed for use by the Soviet Air Forces. The MiG-31BSM Foxhound is considered One of the service’s most capable aircraft …

J-10 fighter jets attached to an aviation brigade of the air force under the PLA Northern Theater Command taxi in close formation on the flightline before takeoff for a recent penetration flight training exercise. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Yang Pan) On June 29, 2020 we reported that Indian Air Force Claims To …

The SA-43 Hammerhead is the US Marine Corps (USMC) spaceship featured in Space: Above and Beyond, a 90s American science fiction television show. Full-scale models of the “Hammerhead” fighters used in the series were created in Australia at RAAF Base Williamtown. An unverified report stated that, while they were being …

F-35 Distributed Mission Training connects simulators across the world in a virtual environment. Source: Lockheed martin Lockheed Martin, the Joint Program Office and the U.S. Air Force successfully connected the F-35, F-22, F-16, and E3 Sentry in a “highly contested simulated environment” during a Distributed Mission Training (DMT) final acceptance …