The 2017 Atlantic Trident included the RAF Eurofighter Typhoon, the FAF Dassault Rafale, the USAF F-22 Raptor, and the F-35 Lightning II. After the first trilateral exercise, which took place…
There are many scenarios in which tube artillery can engage attack helicopters. Sometimes called helicopter gunships because of their heavy armament, modern attack helicopters have two primary roles: first, to…
The F-4 Phantoms have to take off during Zulu Alert Scrambles within five minutes of the horn going off The stunning video in this post, which was shot in a…
The helicopters showed a 25% improvement in range as a result of the fuel tanks, which are installed underneath both sides of the chopper bays and look like torpedoes Marine…
The commonality between the UH-1Y Venom and AH-1Z Viper aircraft enabled critical component supply chains to remain active during AH-1Z production for the USMC. Bell has restarted UH-1Y Venom helicopter…
“For 15 years (1977-92) sitting 24-hour air defense – codenamed Zulu – alert was a fact of life for an Eagle Driver at Bitburg,” Doug Dildy, former F-15 Driver “For…
A designated Marine Corps F/A-18 aviator must complete nearly four years of training The largest F/A-18 Hornet squadron in the U.S. Marine Corps is Fighter Attack Training Squadron (VMFAT) 101…
When the Dornier Do 217 used the radio-guided, free-fall “Fritz X” weapon to sink the Italian battleship Roma, it made aviation history by being the first military aircraft to use…
Tech. Sgt. Wesley Walker, an aircraft armament systems technician with the 354th Maintenance Squadron, was given the opportunity to view the mission from a vantage point he had never experienced…
The T-12 Cloudmaker was twice as big and weighed 44,000 lb overall. It was based on the British-designed 22,000lb (10,000kg) Grand Slam created by British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis during…