Combat aircraft aren’t some kind of medieval knights on a jousting tournament. They’re not even ‘Spitfires vs Bf.109s’ any more. On…
MiG KillersMilitary Aviation
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F-14 TomcatLosses and Aviation SafetyMilitary Aviation
The Story behind this Photo of An F-14 Tomcat Shooting Itself Down while Firing an AIM-7 Sparrow Air-to-Air Missile
One of the most complex parts of the F-14 Tomcat testing were firings of AIM-7 Sparrows from stations on the belly…
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F-14 TomcatLosses and Aviation SafetyMilitary Aviation
[Updated] This US Navy F-14A Tomcat was damaged over Beirut in 1983 (but not by Syrian AAA or SAMs)
The interesting photo in this post features a damaged F-14A Tomcat from VF-11 (modex AE103) embarked aboard USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), returning…
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Cold War EraMiG KillersMilitary Aviation
How an AIM-9 Sidewinder that Failed to Detonate and Got Embedded in a MiG-17 was Reverse-Engineered into the Soviet AA-2 Atoll
Because the AA-2 was the primary weapon of the MiG-21, ‘Atoll’ became the first air-to-air missile in service with dozens of…
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DronesMilitary Aviation
All Iranian Characters Killed in Jan. 3 US Air Strike, the IRIAF F-14s scrambled to Intercept the MQ-9 UAV that conducted the Air Raid and All the Latest Updates about Major-General Qasem Soleimani’s Death
The death of Soleimani is going to change exactly nothing because Soleimani was easily ‘replaced’ by several ‘high-class technocrats’ of the…
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Cold War EraMilitary Aviation
Hot Skies Over Afghanistan: That Time a Pakistani F-16 damaged a Soviet MiG-23 Attacking Targets over the Border between Afghanistan and Pakistan
The Pakistani F-16 pilot released two AIM-9L, rolled 135 degrees and left the fight ‘head over heels’ from within 1500 m…
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Cold War EraMilitary Aviation
Here are some Tips for building an Accurate Model of an Iraqi MiG-25 Foxbat
“Nearly every single model of an Iraqi MiG-25PD from 1991 I’ve seen so far is missing at least one, sometimes two,…
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Cold War EraMilitary Aviation
The Mystery of Air Battle of el-Mansourah, the Air Battle that Never Was but that Egyptians Think to Have Fought
Even the Egyptian Air Force is not teaching its own pilots about any kind of an Air Battle of el-Mansourah. Seems,…
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Aviation HistoryCold War EraMilitary Aviation
The Story of Israeli Air Force First Two Aerial Victories that Never Were
Jun. 3, 1948 is widely considered as the day on which Israeli Air Force scored its first two aerial victories. But…
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Cold War EraMilitary Aviation
The True Story Behind Israeli Nesher Fighter, the Mirage 5 Built by Rockwell (and Not by IAI)
The 51 Mirage 5Js and 10 Mirage 5DDs were delivered to Israel on board of USAF’s C-141 Starlifter transports, in 1970,…
