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Phoenix rises; Iran shows its copy of AIM-54 in action

Posted on April 16, 2017April 16, 2017 by alert5

Iran has showed a video of its Fakour-90 air-to-air missile fired from a F-14A for the first time. The missile is a copy of the Hughes AIM-54 Phoenix missile that was sold together with the F-14 to Iran in the late 1970s.

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Photos, videos of F-35A training deployment to Europe

Posted on April 16, 2017 by alert5

Within 24 hours of the announcement, six F-35As from the U.S. Air Force’s Air Combat Command touched down at Royal Air Force Lakenheath for the type’s first overseas training deployment to Europe.

F-35A Lightning II's from the 34th Fighter Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, land at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, April 15, 2017. The aircraft arrival marks the first F-35A fighter training deployment to the U.S. European Command area of responsibility or any overseas location as a flying training deployment. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Matthew Plew) — F-35A Lightning II’s from the 34th Fighter Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, land at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, April 15, 2017. The aircraft arrival marks the first F-35A fighter training deployment to the U.S. European Command area of responsibility or any overseas location as a flying training deployment. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Matthew Plew)

F-35As departing this weekend for deployment in Europe

Posted on April 15, 2017 by alert5

The U.S. Air Force has disclosed that it will send a small number of F-35As on a training deployment in Europe.

By Todd Cromar [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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F-16 drops an inert B61-12 nuclear bomb

Posted on April 14, 2017April 14, 2017 by alert5

Separation testing of the B61-12 nuclear bomb has started on the F-16 platform. An F-16 from the 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron released an inert bomb at the Nellis Test and Training Range Complex on Mar. 14.

U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brandi Hansen
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GBU-43/B destroys ISIS-K tunnel complex in Afghanistan

Posted on April 14, 2017 by alert5

The first combat employment of the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb has taken place in Afghanistan on Apr. 13.

By U.S. Air Force [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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