Exercise MAPLE FLAG 50 is taking place at 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alberta from May 29 to Jun. 23. Foreign participants this year are F-16s from RSAF and USAF, one A400M from FAF and E-3s from FAF and USAF.
Day: June 18, 2017
Operation REASSURANCE air task force concludes mission in Iceland
The six CF-18s from the Royal Canadian Air Force have concluded their NATO mission in Iceland on Jun. 16.
Photo: Corporal Gary Calvé. Imagery Technician ATF-ICELAND
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Drone view of an IED attack in Mosul, Iraq
A secret road runway in Singapore disappears
A 7.5km long mass rapid transit line goes into operational today in Singapore. The Tuas West Extension consists of four new stations in the western part of the island and two of these above-ground stations were built along Pioneer road. Before its transformation, this road was designed as a road runway similar to the publicly-acknowledge alternate runway along Lim Chu Kang road.
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Every USN F/A-18, EA-18G aircrew getting Garmin Fenix 3
One of the measures taken by the U.S. Navy to combat the physiological episodes on the F/A-18s and EA-18Gs is to issue the aircrew a Garmin Fenix 3 watch.
By Marco Verch [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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