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Improvise! Russia took a Tor-M2KM turret and installed it on a frigate

Posted on March 27, 2017 by alert5

Footage of the firing trials of the Tor-M2KM air defense missile system on board frigate Admiral Grigorovich last October in the Black Sea has emerge.

VMFA-232 pilot went below Safe Escape altitude during strafing run

Posted on March 27, 2017March 26, 2017 by alert5

The U.S. Marine Corps had determined that the crash of a VMFA-232 F/A-18C that claimed the life of Maj. R. Sterling Norton was an accident.

Photo: U.S. Marine Corps
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Airmen salvage vertical tail of crashed Thunderbird 6

Posted on March 26, 2017 by alert5

The Thunderbird F-16 that went down in Colorado last year had its vertical tail removed on Mar. 14 at Peterson Air Force Base.

U.S. Airmen from the Colorado Air National Guard, Crash Damage Disabled Aircraft Recovery team, work to remove the vertical tail from the fuselage of a damage Thunderbird F-16, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., March 14, 2017. The F-16 aircraft was returning to Peterson AFB after completing a flyover for the Air Force Academy graduation when the pilot encountered a throttle malfunction and successfully ejected from the jet. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Michelle Y. Alvarez-Rea)

RoKAF Black Eagles & TNI AU Jupiter Friendship Flight at #LIMA17

Posted on March 26, 2017 by alert5

Our friend the “Butcher” has upload his latest video taken at Langkawi.

Philippine Navy cutter spots unidentified aircraft, might just be P-8A

Posted on March 26, 2017 by alert5

An unidentified aircraft was seen near Philippine Navy cutter BRP Ramon Alcara at Benham Rise recently and some speculated that it could be a drone sent by China or Taiwan.

By Philippine Navy [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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