Bomber aircrafts, Fighter Flights, Fighter Jets, Stealth Fighter Jets
What is Red Flag? Red Flag is an aerial combat training exercise which is hosted at Nellis AFB and Eielson AFB. Red Flag exercise is the successor of the Cope Thunder exercise. The Red flag training mission was established in 1975 as one of the initiatives directed by...
Experimental Aircraft, Fighter Flights, Fighter Jets
One of the largest Air Force is dealing with more missions than ever before. In fact, they are calling in some military contractors to fly their jets. The US Air Force is being forced to consider recruiting air contractors due to the fact that they simply don’t have...
Aircraft Carriers, Fighter Flights, Fighter Jets
Even though the Pentagon has been adamant with claims that none of the 4000 American troops in Iraq are involved in combat, US jets have been flying several attack sorties against Islamic State (ISIS) militants. But what exactly consists of a mission in getting the...
Photography, Reconnaissance, UAV
During the 1950s the Americans saw a big need of having a reconnaissance aircraft to spy on the Soviets during the Cold War. They were trying to use old bombers and rebuilt RB-47s to complete the mission but the Russians had heavily improved their anti-aircraft...
Fighter Flights, Fighter Jets
Switzerland is a weird country. A few examples? In the case of nuclear war, the Swiss have bunkers capable of fitting more than 100% of the country’s population – it is the only (paranoid enough) country to be capable of doing that. Swiss highways can be...
Fighter Flights, Fighter Jets
The future of tourist fighter jet flying We recently published an article about the history of tourist fighter jet rides on this blog (see link resources at the end of the article). It was a brief summary about how these jet flights became available, and the political...
Fighter Flights, Fighter Jets
Development of fighter jet rides It all started with the end of the Cold War and the downsizing of military services and air forces due to strained public finances in the former Eastern Block – the former communist states of Central and Eastern Europe. At this...
Fighter Flights, Fighter Jets
From the MiG-15 Fagot to the MiG-35 4++ multirole fighter jet The infographic below shows the most famous development of the legendary Mikoyan-Gurevich Design bureau (today Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG or RSK MiG). The former Sovjet design bureau was named...
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