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INS Viraat to be scrap

Posted on July 2, 2019July 2, 2019 by alert5

The Indian Navy has given up plans to covert decommissioned aircraft carrier INS Viraat into a museum and will scrap the ship.

INS Viraat
Photo: Indian Navy

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Official specs of Kh-80

Posted on June 26, 2019 by alert5

Specifications of the Soviet Kh-80 supersonic cruise missile.

Photos: Michael Jerdev
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Documentary on the only AXIS bombing of contiguous United States

Posted on June 21, 2019 by alert5

A new documentary film by Portland documentarian Ilana Sol on the bombing of Oregon by Nobuo Fujita and Okuda Shoji on Sept. 9, 1942 will be shown at the Hollywood Theatre in Oregon on Jun. 22.

Fujita&Glen
[1] [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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Campaign to build new F-14 monument

Posted on June 20, 2019June 19, 2019 by alert5

A group of retired F-14 aviators are raising $150,000 to build a 10-foot tall, 4-sided, black, granite obelisk to honor the fighter in Virginia Beach.

Grumman F-14A Tomcat ‘180402 - AG’ (really 160401) (23484911993)
Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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Fatal crash of Nanchang CJ-6 in California

Posted on June 20, 2019June 19, 2019 by alert5

The pilot at the controls of a Nanchang CJ-6 was killed when the plane went down in Santa Susana Mountains on Jun. 15

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