USAF farewell to the KC-10 Extender During the KC-10 farewell ceremony at Travis Air Force Base, California, on September 26, 2024, the last US Air Force (USAF) KC-10 Extender and…
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The story of the Korean Air Lines Boeing 707 that strayed into Soviet airspace and was forced to crash land by a Su-15 Flagon
HL7429 On Apr. 20, 1978 a Korean Air Lines (KAL) Boeing 707-321BA-H, registered HL7429 pair (c/n 19363, fuselage number 623), departed Paris—Charles de Gaulle at 1440 hrs., bound for Seoul via…
‘A 2,000-pound bomb impacted exactly in the center of the gun pit, vaporizing the gun, the stored ammunition, and the unlucky human gunners. I am amazed. The Paveway actually works.…
What makes this clip unique is that at 06:31 the SK 37E lands, reverses, and takes off in the opposite direction. Quite unusual for a fighter bomber! The Swedish Air Force…
On several missions, F-117 pilots saw spectacular explosions in the distance, with some being so impressive that they resembled a nuclear mushroom cloud. The result of the USAF’s Have Blue…
‘This rock is going God only knows how fast and is fifty miles straight up. If I can’t shoot down an SR-71, how in hell am I going to even…
Having signed a contract in 1978, Algeria was the first export customer for MiG-25 Foxbat. MiG-25PDs are still operational today. Algeria was the first export customer for the MiG-25 (ASCC/NATO…
“We split S to the deck and was cruising in Mil power doing about 550 KTS when I got tally on an F-15 aggressor at our 3 O-clock /~4-5miles trying…
LTJG Al Crebo wasn’t able to get his stricken A-4E back aboard USS Bon Homme Richard but it did keep flying long enough for him to get back out over…
The Iraqi said that their Mirage F.1EQ-5 was hit by a ‘Strela’ MANPAD, fired by the IRGC: actually, there was no MANPAD: it was an AIM-7E fired by an F-14A,…
