Tu-22M3M: Modernisation of a Cold War bomber. The Tu-22M3 is getting bumped to the Tu-22M3M standards. The RuAF currently operates 60 Tu-22M3 (upgraded Tu-22M). Half of those (30) are currently queuing up...
Read moreJF-17: Chinese skin, Russian DNA. From Izdeliye-33/project-33 to JF-17/FC-1. In the early-1980's, the Soviets already had a High/Low mix of fighters to take on the American F-16/F-15 duo: The Fulcrum and the...
Read moreMiG-31BM crash: Cover up uncovered. The Foxhound that crashed in April 2017 was actually shot down in a friendly fire incident. Remember: Friendly fire isn't! In April 2017, a MiG-31BM was reported...
Read moreMiG-31 and Kinzhal: From defence to offense.The Foxhound was designed as a defensive platform, an interceptor that could counter high flying spy planes as well as low flying bombers, intruders and cruise...
Read moreLouis Blériot across the Channel: 25th July 1909. 111 years ago, Louis Blériot's plane successfully crossed the English Channel! On the 25th of July 1909, Louis Blériot, a French engineer, businessman and...
Read moreStuka in 1941: The age of Close Air Support. The Stuka was tested in very small numbers in Spain before being successfully used during the German Blitzkrieg in Poland, the Low Countries...
Read moreSR-71 and MiG-31: Close encounter. On the 6th of October 1986, Ed Yeilding was flying his SR-71 over the Barents Sea, off the coast of Murmansk. While he was flying in international...
Read moreCould China sink a US aircraft carrier? Admiral Luo Yang of the People’s Liberation Army Navy seems to think so... The Chinese admiral recently suggested that sinking a couple of American aircraft...
Read moreBattle of the Atlantic Cold War edition. In the event of the Cold War suddenly heating up, the aim for the Soviets would have been to reach the shores of Western Europe...
Read moreThe Kosovo Air Campaign had two aims: To force the Yugoslav leadership to withdraw its army and paramilitary units from the Kosovo province and to degrade the Yugoslav army's ability to fight...
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