Aviation News
Rakuten Monkeys, 樂天桃猿, a professional baseball team in Taiwan has engaged with the Republic of China Air Force to design the team’s new shirt for second half of the current season. The team named the new shirt “Brave Eagle” 勇敢之鷹 and its based on the paint scheme of the Mirage 2000-5 with 20th anniversary colors.
Photo: Rakuten Monkeys
Continue reading “Baseball team in Taiwan designs new shirt base on Mirage 2000-5 paint scheme”
The 23d Fighter Group at Moody Air Force Base completed exercise Mobil Tiger V from Aug. 12-13.
Continue reading “Moody’s Flying Tigers complete Mobil Tiger V”
Last year the Pentagon removed its highest ranking female figther pilot, Maj. Gen. Dawn Dunlop, from her position as the director of the Defense Department’s Special Access Programs Central Office (SAPCO). Now, Air Force Times has obtained the Office of Inspector General’s investigative report on her dismissal from the post.
Photo: USAF
Australian Defense reports that the Boeing Australia’s Loyal Wingman prototype unmanned aircraft has been spotted out in the open and is being prepared for taxi trials.
Continue reading “Loyal Wingman is out in the open for taxi trials”
Spotters in Taiwan recently caught a couple of RoCAF F-16s airborne carrying live AIM-120 missiles along with LANTIRN navigation and targeting pod system and ALQ-184 jamming pods. The media had speculated that Taiwan has evolve its air combat tactics to use the LANTIRN pod for targeting Chinese aircraft. However, the story has been refuted by the Ministry of National Defense, the jets were simply airborne for a photo shot for next year’s calendar.
Photo: 藍天白