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USAF sending its UAV pilots for electronic warfare training

Posted on August 6, 2016August 6, 2016 by alert5

U.S. Air Force pilots who fly the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper are being sent to study a 15-day course that will see them graduate as Electronic Combat Officers.

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By U.S. Air Force photo by Paul Ridgeway [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Posted in Air Force, UAV

Watch USS Wasp launching air strikes against ISIL targets in Libya

Posted on August 6, 2016 by alert5

Posted in Marines

Pantsyr-S1 unit in Kamchatka Peninsular now operational

Posted on August 6, 2016August 6, 2016 by alert5

A Pantsyr-S1 unit based in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsular is now operational, Pacific Fleet spokesman Vladimir Matveyev told TASS.

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By Vitaly V. Kuzmin (http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/652) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Posted in Air Defense

Survey of 31 F-35A pilots found all had a high degree of confidence in the aircraft

Posted on August 6, 2016August 6, 2016 by alert5

John Venable, a former F-16C pilot with 3,000 hours of fighter time, and a Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation did a survey with 31 F-35A pilots and found that they had a high degree of confidence in the fighter.

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Posted in Air Force

This chart helps you to identify all Chinese variants of the FLANKER

Posted on August 5, 2016 by alert5

J-11, J-15,  J-16 chart
Image Credit: SinoSoldier

Posted in Air Force, Industry, Navy

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