A pair of F-15Es from the 492nd Fighter Squadron flew over Acropolis, Athens on Apr. 13 for a photo flight along with three F-16s from the Hellenic Air Force.
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Photo & video of Su-24s buzzing USS Donald Cook
A U.S. defense official says Russian Su-24s carried out low-level flights close to USS Donald Cook while the warship was underway in the Baltic Sea on Apr. 11 and 12.
Photo: U.S. Navy
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Lockheed Martin’s ad shows Super Hornet defeating dogfight missile fired by J-20
Lockheed Martin uploaded an ad on Apr. 11 showcasing its high energy laser weapons capabilities. One of the segments show a Super Hornet in a dogfight with a J-20. The Chinese fighter launched a short-range dogfight missile at the pursuing F/A-18 and the weapon was defeated by a laser pod mounted under the wing of the fighter.
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USAF redesignating MQ-1 Predator squadrons as attack squadrons
Eight U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator squadrons that are currently designated as reconnaissance squadrons will become attack squadrons.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Lt Col Leslie Pratt [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Wind tunnel separation testing of the ASRAAM from the F-35
A photo from Arnold Engineering Development Complex showing the separation testing of the AIM-132 ASRAAM missile from the weapons bay of a F-35 model in the facility’s 4-foot transonic aerodynamic wind tunnel back in 2008.
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Photo: USAF