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F-35A Demo Team to move from Luke to Hill AFB

Posted on September 9, 2019 by alert5

The U.S. Air Force has decided to shift the F-35A Demo Team from Luke to Hill Air Force Base for the 2020 season.

Capt. Andrew “Dojo” Olson, F-35 Demonstration Team pilot and commander performs a high-speed pass in an F-35A Lightning II during the Arctic Lightning Airshow July 13, 2019, at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. The aerial demonstration consists of 16 maneuvers that fully showcase the capabilities of the F-35A Lightning II. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Alexander Cook)

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Model of India’s next-generation SSBN

Posted on September 9, 2019September 9, 2019 by alert5

A scale model of India’s next-generation nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) was inadvertently exposed in public by the Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu.

Photo: Vice President of India secretariat
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173rd Fighter Wing participates in Joint Exercise Sentry Aloha

Posted on September 9, 2019 by alert5

A United States Air Force F-15 Eagle from the 173rd Fighter Wing out of Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Oregon, flies over the Pacific Ocean during the Sentry Aloha exercise at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, August 27, 2019. Aircraft from around the world took part in Joint Exercise Sentry Aloha, a three week coalition exercise at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu, Hawaii. (U.S. Air National Guard Photo by Airman First Class Adam Smith)

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A-10C accidentally fires M156 rocket

Posted on September 8, 2019September 7, 2019 by alert5

An A-10C assigned to the 354th Fighter Squadron had accidentally fired a M156 rocket during a training mission on Sept. 5.

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Damon Kasberg, USAF [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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Successful testing of SOM-B2 cruise missile

Posted on September 7, 2019 by alert5

Turkey has concluded the development and testing of the SOM-B2 cruise missile. This variant has a warhead for hardened targets.

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